Harwood Museum of Art Annual Report - FY22

ON THE COVER: Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Bill Curry.

University ofNew Mexico

Harwood

Letters from Leadership

Letters from Leadership

This Annual Report highlights the accomplishments of Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico for fiscal year 2022, beginning July 2021 and ending June 2022.

Since April 2021, Harwood Museum of Art remained open through the trials of COVID-19. Visitors this year saw a wide range of art, from the celebration of New Mexican artistic expression in Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santos Tradition, to the haunting paintings of In the Sliver of the Sun: Maja Ruznic, which offered Ruznic her first solo museum exhibition. Six nationally acclaimed artists were featured in the new media exhibition, Remote Possibilities: Digital Landscapes from the Thoma Foundation Collection. This was contrasted with the analogue large-scale works in Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs of Northern New Mexico. To anchor us in Taos’ past and honor the present, Harwood facilitated the landmark exhibition, Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo: A New Day for American Indians.

This summer we celebrated more local talent with the immersive installation

of Debbie Long: Light Ships. In contrast to contemporary arts, almost the entire museum was reinstalled with over one hundred master works from the Tia Collection for New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West.

This fall, we are excited to present Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy and William Herbert “Buck” Dunton: A Mainer Goes West, each with a unique view of the West. Together these exhibitions advance our mission of celebrating Taos’ artistic legacy, cultivating connections through art, and inspiring a creative future.

As the past year unfolded, we were able to bring more and more people together, reconnecting with longstanding Harwood patrons and engaging new audiences. While constantly navigating the pandemic, we have once again been able to present music and lectures in the Arthur Bell Auditorium. With a new Curator of Education and

I thank the Harwood director and staff for their excellent work and for making Harwood a wonderful, vital, and inspiring place to be. With the Harwood Centennial on the horizon, we turn our attention to Harwood’s legacy and future and look forward to sharing more of that with you next year.

Having served on the Harwood Museum of Art Governing Board for six years, my five years as Board Chair ends with the fiscal year. I am grateful for my service and thank the entire board and staff for all that we have accomplished together.

And now it is my distinct honor to pass these responsibilities to Scott McAdams, the 2022–2023 Board Chair, who is ready to bring Harwood into its second century as a more relevant and resilient organization.

ALEXANDRA BENJAMIN Governing Board Chair, July 2017–June 2022

Our appreciation of Harwood Museum of Art would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the leadership of the past. Our volunteers, supporters, donors, partner museums, board members, committee members, visionaries, and communities far and wide have been invaluable to this journey. Lucy and Burt Harwood’s vision continues because of the power of their generous hearts and vision of the future. We will continue to honor the Harwoods and carry all those before us into the next one hundred years. Join us for the Harwood Centennial in 2023 for the celebration of the past and future.

SCOTT MCADAMS Governing Board Chair, July 2022

Public Programs, Gwendolyn Fernandez, and Education Coordinator, Christina Neubrand, joining this year, Harwood Museum relaunched its school and community-based programs, and we are delighted to see Taos’ youth in the galleries and studio again.

We have set our intentions to embrace the future of Harwood as a more equitable, diverse, and relevant museum. Awarded the

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums Empowered grant, our staff and boards have begun a multi-year initiative to develop internal cultural competencies and foster external community dialogue and engagement to create a more relevant and resilient organization for the future.

On the threshold of our centennial in 2023, Harwood seeks to end the perpetuation of

past inequities and take actions to be more inclusive. Enhanced by the diverse voices of our Northern New Mexican community, we envision a future where our collections, exhibitions, public programs, and constituents reflect the unique multicultural character of Taos, New Mexico.

JUNIPER LEHERISSEY Executive Director

Harwood Overview

Overview + Strategy

Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico is one of the best kept secrets in the Southwest. Founded in 1923, the museum’s collections and exhibitions tell the myriad stories of art in Taos and Northern New Mexico. Visitors explore notable traditional and contemporary arts in a John Gaw Meem historic building.

In the1890s through 1950s, Taos became a center of romantic and modernist artistic activity in the United States. Harwood has a significant collection of early-20th century art, including the Taos Society of Artists, featuring works by Victor Higgins, E. Martin Hennings, Joseph Henry Sharp, Ernest L. Blumenschein, and E.I. Couse.

The extensive Taos Moderns and mid-20th century collection includes Andrew Dasburg, Marsden Hartley, Louis Ribak, Clay Spohn, Emil Bisttram, Dorothy Eugenie Brett, Edward Corbett, and more.

Harwood’s impressive permanent collection also includes the world-renowned Agnes Martin Gallery, often compared to the Rothko Chapel. This installation of seven paintings, the only one of its kind in the world, was gifted to Harwood by abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin who called Taos her home.

The museum’s Native American collection includes work by notable Indigenous artists like John Suazo, Tony Abeyta,

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Juan Tafiho Mirabal, Julián Martinez, and Dwayne Wilcox. Spanning historic and contemporary works, Harwood’s Hispanic Traditions collection contains santos, bultos, retablos, and crosses, including art by José Rafael Aragón. In particular, the museum holds a robust collection of santero artists, Patrociño Barela and Gustavo Victor Goler. Harwood Museum offers concerts, lectures, and artist presentations in its 95-seat Arthur Bell Auditorium. Additionally, it serves the community through educational programs that engage thousands of children each year.

OPPOSITE PAGE: New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. May 7–Sep 25, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

— KEN McALLISTER

“One of our favorite art museums in the southwest. Consistently excellent curation, wonderful permanent and temporary exhibitions, always helpful staff, and a beautifully maintained facility. A real treasure and well worth a visit for art lovers.”

“This is a must see in Taos. They have the best collections and exhibits. Two permanent exhibits should be noted: The Agnes Martin exhibit puts it on the map of international art destinations; The Ken Price exhibit also is a noteworthy contribution from an internationally renowned major player from the art world.”

— JUSTIN MAX BAILEY

Overview + StrategyOrganizational Strategy

Rooted, Relevant, Recognized

The Harwood Museum of Art Centennial Strategic Plan: 2020–2023 sets the direction for the museum to become more “rooted, relevant, and recognized.” As Harwood embarks upon the next one hundred years, the pillars, goals, and actions planned through 2023, our centennial year, will set a solid foundation for a thriving future.

Through our strategic focus on sustainability, diversity, inclusion, and legacy, we will advance Harwood and the art of Taos by being rooted in community and relevant to the international art world. It is time to build a stronger foundation under our ambitious decades of growth. As storytellers, we will ensure that our exhibitions and collections

contribute to an inclusive art history and catalyze an equitable creative future. We must be a recognized leader both globally and locally, by respectfully collaborating with our community to co-create exhibitions and programs relevant to the people we serve.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santos Tradition. May 29–Oct 10, 2021, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

Board + CommitteesBoard + Committees

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART GOVERNING BOARD

Alexandra Benjamin, Chair

Janet Mockovciak, Vice Chair Nicole Dopson (UNM), Treasurer

Shawn Berman, Secretary Teresa Costantinidis (UNM) Dora Dillistone

Lucile Grieder

Karl Halpert Juanita Lavadie Scott McAdams Harris Smith (UNM)

Newly Appointed Board Members

2022/2023

Scott McAdams, Incoming Chair Mary Guitierrez Sheree Livney Vernon Lujan Deborah Vincent

CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

Dora Dillistone, Co-Chair

Lucile Grieder, Co-Chair

Stephanie Bennett-Smith, Former Chair Alexandra Benjamin Sonya Davis

Juanita Lavadie Sheree Livney Scott McAdams

Janet Mockovciak Linda Warning Marcia Winter Susie Crowley, Staff Liaison Nicole Dial-Kay, Staff Liaison Gwendolyn Fernandez, Staff Liaison Juniper Leherissey, Staff Liaison Shemai Rodriguez, Staff Liaison

COLLECTIONS COMMITTEE

Steve Rose, Chair

Dora Dillistone, Incoming Interim Chair Gus Foster

Victor Goler

Juanita Lavadie Frank Purcell

Charlene Tamayo

Jonathan Warm Day Coming Marcia Winter

Christopher Albert, Staff Liaison Nicole Dial-Kay, Staff Liaison Emily Santhanam, Staff Liaison

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Janet Mockovciak, Chair Agnes Chavez Patti Day

Juanita Lavadie Sylvia Renick Carol Rinehart Bettina Sandoval

Chenoa Turquoise Velarde Gwendolyn Fernandez, Staff Liaison

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Nicole Dopson, Chair

Shawn Berman

Karl Halpert Janet Mockovciak

Francisco Certain (UNM), Staff Liaison

Juniper Leherissey, Staff Liaison

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

Lucile Grieder, Co-Chair

Shawn Berman, Co-Chair Sonya Davis, Staff Liaison

ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

Gus Foster, Chair Shawn Berman Sonya Davis, Staff Liaison

BOARD GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

Alexandra Benjamin, Chair Shawn Berman Scott McAdams

Janet Mockovciak

Harwood Museum Alliance, Inc. is a separate 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the sole mission of supporting Harwood Museum of Art through fundraising and events. (All board and committee members as of 6/30/2022)

MARKETING + COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Scott McAdams, Chair

Juniper Leherissey, Staff Liaison Shemai Rodriguez, Staff Liaison

HARWOOD MUSEUM ALLIANCE BOARD

Sheree Livney, President

Dora Dillistone, Vice President Marcia Winter, Treasurer

Lucile Grieder, Secretary Alexandra Benjamin Sonya Davis

Geneviève de Vellis, Incoming July 2022 Linda Warning

Staff + Volunteers

Staff + Volunteers

STAFF

Juniper Leherissey

Executive Director

EXHIBITIONS + COLLECTIONS

Nicole Dial-Kay

Curator of Exhibitions + Collections

Christopher Albert Collections Manager

Emily Santhanam Curatorial Assistant Katy Ballard Preparator Joel Clark Contract Preparator

Celeste Miles Preparator David Ryan Preparator

EDUCATION + PROGRAMS

Gwendolyn Fernandez Curator of Education + Public Programs

Christina Neubrand Education Coordinator Francis Santistevan Multimedia Services Tech

AUDIENCE + PHILANTHROPIC ENGAGEMENT

Sonya Davis Director of Development Susie Crowley Donor Relations + Volunteer Manager

Shemai Rodriguez Marketing + Engagement Manager

MUSEUM STORE + VISITOR EXPERIENCE

Joseph Racicot Store + Visitor Experience Manager

Nancy Berk Customer Service Associate Lesley Ivy Customer Service Associates Chrissy Rutkaus Customer Services Associate Anee Ward Customer Service Associate

OPERATIONS + FACILITIES

Lacy Cantu Operations Manager Eric DeHerrera Facility Services Tech Damian Lieto Facilities Manager

VOLUNTEERS

Julie Anderson Barbara Conley

Dan Daily Patti and Jim Day Geneviève de Vellis

Virginia Dodier Beth Easter Bob Fies Martha Grossman

JoAnn Hanley

Charles Henderson Mary Kotsch

Catherine Langley Christopher Larsen Andrew Manley Sarah Mantis

Anja Marais

Ilse Mayer

Beatrice Maynard Scott McAdams

Amy Phillips

Debra Phillips Charlene Tamayo

Tenney Walsh Linda and Bob Warning

Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs of Northern New Mexico. Oct 23, 2021–Apr 17, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. May 7–Sep 25, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Sam Joseph Photography.

Exhibitions + Collections

Exhibitions + Collections

Exhibitions at Harwood Museum of Art seek to “inspire a thriving creative community connected through excellence in the arts.” As ratified in the 2020–2023 Strategic Plan, Harwood’s exhibition goals are to:

• Celebrate the legacy of Taos’ art history

• Support emerging artists of New Mexico

• Represent diverse voices of Northern New Mexico

• Inspire a creative community by exhibiting celebrated national and international artists making work with relevant regional themes. From summer 2021 to summer 2022, Harwood Museum of Art presented seven major exhibitions with significant loans and six permanent collection rotations throughout the galleries.

Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santos Tradition. May 29–Oct 10, 2021, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

EXHIBITIONS

In the Sliver of the Sun: Maja Ruznic

Mar 6, 2021–Sep 26, 2021

Maja Ruznic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1983. After fleeing the Bosnian War, she and her family immigrated to the United States in 1995. Ruznic’s experiences as a Bosnian war refugee and immigrant preface her artistic preoccupations with history, myth, suffering, and trauma. Vivid and darkly humorous, her figures emerge from the canvas with the hazy incandescence of memory.

Harwood Museum is proud to have presented Ruznic’s first solo museum exhibition and catalogue.

Sponsor: Harwood Museum Alliance

Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santos Tradition May 29, 2021–Oct 10, 2021

Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santos Tradition unrolls the unique story of New Mexico’s interwoven expressions of devotional art and lowrider culture. Just as the santos artists seek a physical channel between the heavens and daily life, the lowrider has evolved as a modern-day vessel for the belief systems of multicultural Norteño communities. In this exhibition, santeros, santeras, and famed lowrider artists cruise low ’n’ slow side-by-side to make apparent how these two art forms share subject matter and religious function, binding them across past and present.

Sponsors: Greg Nelson, Arroyo Seco Live Inc., Richard Payne and Jane Goldberg, Heritage Hotels and Resorts, and Champs Towing

In the Sliver of the Sun: Maja Ruznic. Mar 6–Sep 26, 2021, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

Remote Possibilities: Digital Landscapes from the Thoma Foundation Collection

Oct 9, 2021–Feb 27, 2022

Remote Possibilities: Digital Landscapes from the Thoma Foundation Collection brings together six of the world’s foremost contemporary artists to engage the tradition of landscape art. John Gerrard, Kent Monkman, Bruce Nauman,

Jennifer Steinkamp, Leo Villareal, and Marina Zurkow use digital technologies in the artistic pursuit of veritable representation, the digital sublime, humanity’s need for control over the wild, and meaning-making of our natural world.

Sponsors: New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts

Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs of Northern New Mexico

Oct 23, 2021–Apr 17, 2022

Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs of Northern New Mexico includes works beginning from the artist’s first years in Taos in the 1970s working with antique panoramic Cirkut cameras using black and white film. The exhibition moves through the 1980s–2000s when he began using cameras with modern technology, color film, a unique enlarger for the large negatives, and a custom color darkroom of his own design and fabrication for 16-foot-long photographic prints. The exhibition concludes with Foster’s recent digital camera work, no longer panoramic in format, but still exploring themes of time and space.

Sponsors: Jim and Lina Beckley, Larry Bell Studio, Ms. Bornstein, Dora and Carl Dillistone, Sheree Livney and Steve Hanks, Linda and Bob Warning, New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts

Remote Possibilities: Digital Landscapes from the Thoma Foundation Collection. Oct 9, 2021–Feb 27, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

Exhibitions + CollectionsExhibitions + Collections

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo: A New Day for American Indians

Oct 22, 2021–Apr 17, 2022

On December 15, 1970, President Richard M. Nixon signed H. R. 471 into effect as Public Law 91-550, which was approved earlier by a bipartisan vote in the United States Congress. The bill ended a 64-year

struggle by Taos Pueblo for the return of lands vital to their culture and way of life. The legislative battle waged by Taos Pueblo symbolized Native American struggle for religious freedom and protection of sacred lands. This exhibition was guest curated by Vernon J. Lujan, Deputy Tribal Programs Administrator at Taos Pueblo.

Debbie Long: Light Ships

Mar 19, 2022–Oct 9, 2022

Debbie Long: Light Ships shows immersive environments that travel through light, time, and space. The inviting chambers lined with hundreds of handmade cast glass pieces are intended for slow bodily experiences of the movement of sunlight, moonlight, clouds passing, piercing stars, and summer lightning. This exhibition represents the last decade of the artist’s career, including: Long’s newest environment Willa (2015–2020), a transformed 1970s recreational vehicle, an original film of Light Ships experienced in a remote New Mexico desert landscape, and an enchanting night sky environment named Mavis created sitespecifically inside the museum.

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo: A New Day for American Indians Oct 22, 2021–Apr 17, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

Sponsors: Anonymous, Larry Bell Studio, Shawn Berman and Janet Holmberg, Ms. Bornstein, Gus Foster, The Mimi Saltzman Family Foundation, Happy Price, and Harwood Museum Alliance

Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs of Northern New Mexico. Oct 23, 2021–Apr 17, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West May 7–Sep 25, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

Debbie Long, Willa in landscape, 2015–2020, RV, light, glass, 26 x 8.5 x 10 feet. Courtesy of the artist.

New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West

May 7, 2022–Sep 25, 2022

During the 1920s and 1930s, Santa Fe and Taos were recognized as two of the nation’s — and world’s — most important art communities. The cosmopolitan denizens of these remote outposts embraced a multicultural America by engaging with Native American and Hispano populations. New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West presents more than one hundred works based on artists’ impressions of New Mexico that were created over the course of a century from the late 1800–1900s. By placing the works of lesser-known artists alongside pillars of the art community, New Beginnings offers a fresh perspective and new dimension to the history of the Taos and Santa Fe art colonies and their enduring legacy. This traveling exhibition is comprised of works on loan from Tia Collection curated by Laura Finlay Smith, Curator, Tia Collection and MaLin Wilson-Powell, Independent Curator.

Sponsors: Montaner Charitable Trust and Greg Nelson

Exhibitions + CollectionsExhibitions + Collections

PERMANENT COLLECTION GALLERY ROTATIONS

1. Dorothy and Jack Brandenburg Gallery: Albert Looking Elk, Burt Harwood, Mary Ufer

2. Ellis-Clark Taos Moderns Gallery: Emil Bisttram

3. Highlights of the Permanent Collection: William Henry Jackson

4. Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Dwayne Wilcox

5. Hispanic Traditions Gallery: Tinwork

6. Joyce and Sherman Scott Gallery: LA to Taos

Permanent Collection Rotation, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

1. Michio Takayama, A Page of History, 1978, oil on canvas, 66 x 44 in. Gift of Carolyn Haddock and the late Douglas Smith.

2. Jerry Jordan, Streets of Taos,1990, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in. Gift of Carolyn Haddock and the late Douglas Smith.

3. Doel Reed, Back of Harwood, n.d., conté crayon on paper, 22 x 16 ½ in. Gift of Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM.

4. Marie Romero Cash, Nuestra Señora de la Luz,1986, santo, 22 x 16 ½ in. Gift of Jane and Bruce Warren.

5. Marie Romero Cash, Our Lady of the Rosary, 1995, santo, 15 x 18 ¾ x ¾ in. Gift of Jane and Bruce Warren.

6. Jacob Martinez, Untitled (crucifix), 1996, santo, 22 ¾ x 32 ¾ x 6 in. Gift of Jane and Bruce Warren.

7. Cara Romero, Liquid Sunshine, 2020, photographic print, 36 x 36 in. Partial gift of the artist and purchase funds from the New Mexico Council on Photography Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

8. Cara Romero, Boulevard Legend, 2020, photographic print, framed: 36 x 36 in. Partial gift of the artist and purchase funds from the New Mexico Council on Photography Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

Exhibitions + Collections

Exhibitions + Collections

HARWOOD COLLECTION ON TOUR

Horace Pierce, Untitled, c. 1955–1958, painting, framed: 21 5/8 × 19 1/2 × 1 in. Gift of Florence M. Pierce.

Horace Pierce, Untitled, c. 1955–1958, ink on paper, framed: 30 5/8 × 20 1/16 × 1 1/4 in. Gift of Florence M. Pierce.

Cady Wells, Penitente Morada, 1940, watercolor on paper, framed: 25 1/2 x 31 5/8 in. M.A. Healy Family Foundation Purchase Fund.

INCLUDED IN:

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group curated by the Crocker Art Museum. This exhibition includes 85 significant works of the Transcendental Painting Group, an artistic movement which originated in Taos and Santa Fe. The exhibition opened at the Albuquerque Museum June 2021 and is on view at the Crocker Art Museum (Aug 2022–Nov 2022) and closes at LACMA (Dec 2022–Apr 2023).

INCLUDED IN:

Sun Patters-Dark Canyon: The Paintings and Aquatints of Doel Reed organized by OSU Art Museum (Jul–Oct 2021) and traveling to Wichita Art Museum (Nov 2021–Feb 2022) and Taos Art Museum at Fechin House (May–Aug 2022).

OPPOSITE PAGE: Debbie Long, Willa (interior). Photo by Andrew Yates.

“Willa was a really wonderful experience...a special moment to do nothing more than be quiet with my thoughts and notice my surroundings. Thank you. I will remember this for a long time.”

— R. BURRELL

Collaborators

Collaborators

Arroyos Del Norte Elementary School Arroyo Seco Live Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation Conduit Gallery Couse-Sharp Historic Site Enos Garcia Community School Gizmo Hales Gallery Idea Peddler Karma Gallery Millicent Rogers Museum Paseo Project Revolt Gallery SEL4NM STEMarts Lab Tamarind Institute Taos Art Museum Taos Center for the Arts Taos Education Collaborative Taos Historic Museums Taos Municipal Schools Taos Pueblo Tia Collection Town of Taos UNM Art and Ecology UNM – Taos Youth Heartline

NEW MUSEUM STORE ARTISTS

Daniele Antonopoulos, Jeweler

Laurie Balliett, Painter

Jenna Bass, Painter

Hazel Elsbach, Jeweler

Kim Henkel, Jeweler

Jennifer Inge, Jeweler

Jackie Kolbenschlag, Photographer

Robyn O’Boyle, Candle Maker Kim Treiber, Potter

Education + Programs

Harwood’s longstanding commitment to creating vibrant educational programming continues despite the on-going challenges of COVID-19. With the support of a new staff and Advisory Committee, Harwood Education and Public Programs are emerging with a redefined purpose to “transform lives through life-long engagement with the arts.” At the core of our work is a deep commitment to supporting a thriving social, emotional, and creative life in Taos. Through programming designed to

eliminate barriers to access, we seek to inspire inclusive dialogues and nurture community well-being through art.

Children’s voices and creative spirits once again fill the Fern Hogue Mitchell Education Center while our team, with the support of a dedicated corps of volunteers, has been out in the community bringing art education to schools and community spaces across Taos.

In public programs, we were delighted to welcome back old partners and forge new

collaborations to bring music, dance, and a wide variety of lectures to audiences in the Arthur Bell Auditorium. While we continue to navigate the evolving landscape of COVID-19, Harwood Education and Public Programs remain grounded in a clear purpose to be a vital source of creativity within the Taos community. We look forward to celebrating the last one hundred years and forging new paths forward in the future.

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Education + Programs

EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS

SCHOOL TOURS – Harwood welcomed over 170 K–12 students and teachers to the museum this year. With newly developed pre- and post-visit materials and in-gallery activities, school groups can self-guide through the museum with support from our education team. We look forward to expanding this program in the next fiscal year with new kinds of tours and art making opportunities.

ENOS GARCIA AFTER-SCHOOL – With our longstanding partners, Enos Garcia Elementary School, Harwood Education piloted a dynamic after school program integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) with museum visits and student art making activities.

PASEO PROJECT PARTNERSHIP –

Harwood Education and the Paseo Project teamed up to support the Taos High School Honors English class in a poetry project. Students used Dorothy Brett’s The Golden Images, a painting from the Taos Municipal School Historic Collection at Harwood, to create poetry that was performed during Paseo’s Spring Out Festival.

SUMMER PROGRAMS – Harwood

Education provided multiple local summer camps with art curriculum supporting STEAM and SEL standards. We worked with youth from 1st to 12th grade exploring identity through self-portraits, perspective through

Enos Garcia Elementary students explore New Beginnings. Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico.

landscapes, and social awareness with a group quilt collage.

Sponsors: Fasken Foundation, Kanter Kallman Foundation, Janet and John Mockovciak, Stephanie Bennett-Smith Education Endowment, and Nita and Henk Van der Werff

Education ProgramsEducation + Programs

PUBLIC PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Deepening connections and expanding the stories of Harwood’s collection and exhibitions is a key goal of public programming. This year, collaborations with dozens of artists, curators, musicians, and community members resulted in a dynamic line-up of events from a new series of largescale public exhibition opening celebrations to intimate curator and artist talks in the galleries. These included: In the Sliver of the Sun: Maja Ruznic

• Gallery talk and catalogue signing with Maja Ruznic

Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and Santos Tradition

• Curator talks with Santo Lowride artists Nicholas Herrera, LowLow Medina, Toby Morfin, and Jerome Rocha

• Lowrider Show ‘n’ Shine featuring eight lowrider cars from the Taos community

Gus Foster: Panoramic Photographs of Northern New Mexico

• Artist Talks with Gus Foster

• Instagram Live event with Gus Foster

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo: A New Day for American Indians

• Gallery talks with Guest Curator Vernon J. Lujan, Deputy Tribal Programs Administrator at Taos Pueblo

• Lecture by Gil Suazo, Sr.

• Virtual screenings of LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 and Taos Center for the Arts drive-in collaboration

• Conversation with Director: Julianna Brannum moderated by TrueKids1

Remote Possibilities: Digital Landscapes from the Thoma Foundation Collection

• Remote Possibilities: Envisioning Climate Futures with Artists Marina Zurkow and Andrea Polli virtual event co-hosted by ViVA

Fall Exhibitions Opening Celebration

• Revolt Gallery featuring Steve Dirty, Miles Bonny, Doc the High Hawk, and Hail Creek Singers

Debbie Long: Lightships

• Opening Celebration with Revolt Gallery featuring CJ Burnett and Ry Warner

• Willa Sunset Viewings with Debbie Long

New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West

• Opening Celebration with Revolt Gallery featuring Miles Bonny, Shorr, and Cicada Hymns

• The Artistic Import of Taos lecture by Davison Koenig, Executive Director and Curator at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site

• Beyond the Canvas: Conversation with Curators Laura Finlay-Smith and MaLin Wilson-Powell

LIGHTING LEDOUX – After a brief hiatus, Ledoux street neighbors and guests gathered again to celebrate this holiday tradition on December 3, 2021. Reina Sheyenne Carleen Cecelia Torrez, and Wurlitzer Fellow Danila Cervantes led guests in shadow-puppet making alongside bonfires and holiday cheer.

SLOW ART DAY – Joining thousands of museums across the world, Harwood celebrated Global Slow Art Day on April 2, 2022, with movement, sketching, and close looking activities in the galleries. This international movement intends to help people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art.

FIRST FRIDAY – Harwood kicked off a robust line-up of First Friday community events

with Chipper Thompson and Kim Trieber performing in Mandelman-Ribak during extended hours from 5–7pm. Gallery-talks and drop-in sketching were also available for visitors, who receive free admission.

CONCERTS – With caution and in collaboration with partners to enact COVIDsafe protocols, the Arthur Bell Auditorium once again came to life with sounds of live music. Working closely with longtime partner, Taos Jazz Bebop Society, we welcomed world-class musicians to Taos including the Greg Abate Quartet, the George Cables Trio, Purnell Steen and LeJazz Machine, and the Peter Eskine Quartet.

FILM – The Oscar Shorts made their return to Taos with three days of Academy Award-nominated films in the Arthur Bell

Auditorium. Additionally, we partnered with TCA to co-present a drive-in showing of LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 in the TCA Backlot. Harwood also offered a week of virtual screenings of the film through our website.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS – The stateof the art Arthur Bell Auditorium is available to a wide variety of community groups. This year, we co-presented and supported the following organizations in bringing engaging programs to Taos audiences: Taos Pueblo Blue Lake Commemoration Team, Leopold Writing Program, Paseo Project, STEMarts Lab, and Oklahoma State University’s Doel Reed Center in Taos.

Sponsors: Arroyo Seco Live, Inc. and Richard B. Siegel Foundation

Agnes Martin Gallery. Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

Financial Strength

Financial Strength

In the first year of being fully open since the COVID-19 pandemic, Harwood Museum of Art has resumed most areas of activities and ended the year with a strong financial position. Public and Educational programs, however, continue to be limited thus reducing earned revenue and related variable expenses.

Harwood is proud to announce that it received two prestigious grants from Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and The Henry Luce Foundation. The IMLS Museums Empowered match grant will help to support Harwood’s multiyear Equity Initiative. The Luce grant will provide significant support for the Harwood Centennial exhibition and publication.

FY22 Revenue by Source

UNM $510,768, 41%

Endowments

$216,978, 18%

Earned Revenue $155,970, 13%

FY22 Expenses by Function

General + Admin $277,542, 25%

Gifts + Grants $347,113, 28%

Store + Program Support Services $243,882, 22%

Facilities $175,257, 16%

Education + Public Programs $95,086, 9%

Exhibition + Collections $313,013, 28%

ENDOWMENTS

Endowments are key to diversification of our revenue. Harwood Museum of Art endowments provide valuable recurring support for our mission, helping to secure our future.

While the University of New Mexico supports Harwood in a number of areas, our endowments provide additional predictable funding for the Museum’s most important functions including operations, facilities, exhibitions, and programming.

Yet currently this still leaves at least 40% of our budget that must come from annual fundraising and earned revenue. By proactively

growing our endowments as we are doing now in our endowment campaign, we will continue to increase the level of predictable and critical support.

The University of New Mexico Foundation provides professional management of our endowments and supports major gift fundraising for Harwood Museum of Art. For more information on the Consolidated Investment Fund visit https://www.unmfund.org/about/ endowment-funds

Harwood Museum of Art Endowments

Harwood General Endowment $2,321,540

Degen House Quasi Endowment $60,061 Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak Legacy Endowment $205,604

Tally Richards Fund for Exhibitions $57,191 Betty Thom Foster Special Exhibitions Fund $700,182 Harwood Exhibitions Endowment $30, 488 Larry Bell Fund for Excellence in Contemporary Art $19,356

MaryLou Reifsnyder Memorial Exhibition Endowment $50,996

Stockman Family Endowment for Harwood Collections $231,665 Veritas Foundation Fund $146,451 Harwood Public Programs Endowment $104,021 Stephanie Bennett-Smith Education Endowment $235,398 Value as of 12/31/2021 $4,162,953

— BILL AND SHANNON H.

exhibit! Felt so close to the life of Taos and surrounding area.”

Financial StrengthEndowment Campaign

$6 Million Endowment Campaign

$4,876,747 (81%) committed

ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN SUPPORTERS

Cindy Atkins Alexandra Benjamin

Stephanie Bennett-Smith

Shawn Berman and Janet Holmberg

Teresa and Peter Costantinidis

Nicole Dopson

Estate of Betty Thom Foster

Gus Foster

Karl Halpert

Juanita Lavadie

Estate of Roger Lerman Lucile Leigh Grieder

ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN

Harwood Museum of Art has just entered the public phase of a $6MM endowment campaign. This increased endowment will provide the stability needed to allow Harwood Museum of Art to raise our standards of excellence.

“Through a campaign begun quietly in December 2019, we continue to successfully

build our endowments through cash gifts and bequests. This increase in endowment funds will produce reliable annual revenue for the museum, providing critical support that allows Harwood to remain a beacon of inspiration for Taos and visitors from around the world.”

GUS FOSTER Chair, Endowment Campaign

Traci and Scott McAdams

Janet Mockovciak

Robert Rushforth

Joyce and Sherman Scott

Harris Smith and Melanie Nelson

Four donors who wish to remain anonymous

For more information or to make a donation to the Harwood endowment, please contact Sonya Davis, Director of Development at sonya.davis@unmfund or 575-758-9826 x 116

OPPOSITE PAGE: New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West. May 7–Sep 25, 2022, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico. Photo Credit: Andrew Yates.

Director’s Circles + Sponsors

Director’s Circles + Sponsors

AGNES MARTIN

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

Anonymous Arroyo Seco Live Sylvia Johnson Bartay

Larry Bell

Alexandra Benjamin Stephanie Bennett-Smith

Barbara Brenner

Rosamaria Ellis Clark Estate Gabrielle and Richard Coffman

Teresa and Peter Costantinidis Fasken Foundation and Paula & Steven Fasken Fisher Family Fund

Gus Foster

Dianne Frost and Robert Silver Grace Family Foundation Lucile Leigh Grieder Carolyn Haddock Harwood Museum Alliance, Inc. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Jeff Baker Photography LANL Foundation

Sheree Livney and Steve Hanks

Julia McTague Art Appraisals

Montaner Charitable Trust

Gregory Nelson

New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts

New Mexico Council on Photography Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation

Estate of William Reifsnyder

Richard B. Siegel Foundation Santa Barbara Foundation

Sherman and Joyce Scott

Lynne and Tom Tillack University of New Mexico –Mandelman Ribak Collection

Eric Webster

ANDREW DASBURG

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

Andrew Yates Photography, LLC. Nora Anthony Sonya Davis

Janet Holmberg and Shawn Berman Terrie Manget Celeste and Anthony Meier

The Mimi Saltzman Family Foundation, Inc. Catherine Oliver

Robert M. Ellis Art Collection Trust Cara Romero Tia Collection

Kaye and Thomas Tynan Nita and Henk Van der Werff Sasha vom Dorp Zoë Zimmerman

PATROCIÑO BARELA

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

Jeanne Affelder and Jeffrey Weissglass Ms. Bornstein

Paula and William Bradley Cru Foundation

Patti and Jim Day Dora and Carl Dillistone Pamela Jo Garrison

Roberta and Robert Kay Becky and Steve Kush Sandra Lerner Annell Livingston Taos Pueblo Government and Vernon Lujan Millicent Rogers Museum Debra Phillips

Happy Price Joy and Frank Purcell

Elizabeth Romero and Roger Hyndman Abby Salsbury and Dean Pulver Jan Sessler

Anthony Skvarla Wendy and Chris Stagg MaryRoss Taylor

Trinchera Ranch

Lisa and David von Gunten Linda and Robert Warning Jane and Bruce Warren

Director’s Circles + Sponsors

Director’s Circles + Sponsors

VICTOR HIGGINS

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

Lois and Dick Abraham Nancy and Roger Allen Charles Anderson Holly and Thomas Azzari Sharon and Robert Barton Ursula and Barney Berkowitz Lyn Bleiler Judith Cuddihy

Jules and Georgia Epstein

Martha and Christopher Flanders Trisha Fong and David Norden

Karl Halpert

Ellen Morton-Hamil and David Hamil Charles Hill

Historic Taos Inn Christopher Johnson Kathleen Brennan Studio KTAOS Karen Lubliner

Pam and Johnny McArthur Gillian McCombs Heather Nelson and Brendan Brady

Melanie Nelson and Harris Smith Marleen and Mark Olivie Edward Osowski Polly Raye and Bill Christmas Carol and Richard Rinehart Carole and Johnnie W Ross Rumsfeld Family Fund Louise Sarezky and Hoodie Beitz

Ted Schupbach

Mary Shaffer

Wendy Shannon and Rick Higgins Frances and John Speirs William Stewart Karen Stone

Andrea Szekeres

Anne Taft Taos Community Foundation Taos Lifestyle J. Matthew Thomas Andrew Ting Marcia Winter Roy Woods Barbara Zaring and Stephen Rose

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