The Friends is a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting the museum. Friends membership is $35 a year for individuals and $60 for families. (Please note: You must first be a museum member to join.) Friends can attend special lectures and other events, trips to artists' homes, museums, Indian dances, and more.
Friends actively help the museum in a wide variety of ways:
- Greeting guests as gallery hosts
- Making sales in the Case Trading Post
- Giving gallery tours as docents
- Helping with the annual benefit auction
- Being involved in special fund-raising events
- Working with exhibitions and curatorial department projects
- Providing hospitality at FRIENDS and museum events
- And more!
Please email info@wheelwright.org if you are interested in becoming a
Friend of the Wheelwright Museum.
Lectures,
Trips, and Book Club
Selections
for 2007–2008
With the Friends of
the Wheelwright Museum
of the American Indian
Unless
otherwise indicated,
all programs are
held in the Mary Cabot
Wheelwright
Library.
Events are free to
Friends Members.
There is a $5 charge
for
non-members.
Refreshments are
served at 3:00 p.m.
and programs
begin at 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Spring Fling
Election of Friends Board Members at the home of Paul and Susanna Orzech from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. For more information contact Program Chairman Mary Dale Gordon at 505-982-9667.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Taste and Talents from the Mesa
Friends fundraiser at the home of Richard and Jean Higgins from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 per person. Reservations required. For more information contact Program Chairman Mary Dale Gordon at 505-982-9667.
September 2008
Annual Picnic
Date and time to be announced.
Wheelwright Friends’ Book Club
Please join us in September for another exciting year of book reviews especially selected to reflect the history and events of the Southwest. The Wheelwright Book Club meets the second Wednesday of each month starting in September at 1:00 p.m. in the Mary Cabot Wheelwright Library. Following is a listing of upcoming book titles and authors.
September 10, 2008
The Native American Curio Trade in New Mexico by Jonathan Batkin
October 8, 2008
Out There Somewhere by Simon J. Ortiz
November 12, 2008
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
January 14, 2009
Po’pey: Leader of the First American Revolution by Joe S. Sando and Herman Agoyo
February 11, 2009
House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday
March 11, 2009
The Battle of Little Bighorn by Joseph Marshall
April 8, 2009
The Plague of Doves by Joanne Yeager
For more information on Friends events, please contact Program Chairman Mary Dale Gordon at 505-982-9667.
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