NMSA- Art Institute
NMSA- Art Institute Builds on the Power of an Education in the Arts
“By any measure, the arts should stand at the heart of a strong public education. An education without the arts—a fundamental mode of human expression—is incomplete.” –American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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Development Associate, Jet Terry:
Support Education in the Arts with Us!
New Mexico School for the Arts- Art Institute
NMSA-Art Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that funds the arts programs and community outreach programs of the New Mexico School for the Arts via private contributions and foundation support.
Research confirms what the educators and staff at NMSA witness firsthand: students involved in the arts outperform their peers in academic settings. They earn higher grades, develop more positive attitudes about school, and are less likely to drop out of high school. This is what your donations support.
NMSA graduates attend prestigious institutions, including the Eastman School of Music, Johns Hopkins, New York University, Northwestern University, and the Pratt Institute. They are leaders in the fields of public health and science, contemporary dance, technical theatre, and more
Every gift makes a tremendous difference in our students’ journey. When you invest in our students’ future, you become part of their success stories, creating a ripple effect that extends far beyond our classrooms, studios, and stages.
Arts Education Improves Cognition
The arts impart valuable cognitive, critical thinking, and technical skills used by artists and non-artists in their livelihoods, strengthening our economy. – American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Arts Education Improves School Performance
The arts enhance educational engagement and a desire to learn more.– American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Arts Education Creates Strong Citizens
The arts strengthen social ties in our schools and communities and enhance civic engagement, strengthening civil society. – American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Circle of the Arts is a special group of donors who give $1,000 or more annually. Circle of the Arts members enjoy advance invitations to performances and other private events.
Annual Fund donors are offered a variety of benefits, and Circle-level members are entitled to additional opportunities, including:
– Reserved event tickets
– VIP seating and parking privileges for Major Events
– Invitation to VIP & Artist Receptions
– And more!
A Standing Ovation for our Current Annual Donors!
1) IMPRESARIO
Herman Siegelaar and Cornelia Bryer
Marilyn Almendinger Trust
Laurie and Steve Arnold
Siegelaar Bryer Foundation at SFCF
Anonymous 1
Anonymous 2
Anonymous 3
Fidelity Foundation
Holly Rice and Vince Gilligan
Earl Potter
Pamela Saunders-Albin
Catherine Eaton Skinner and David Skinner
Carl and Marilynn Thoma
Garrett Thornburg
Thornburg Foundation
Roke Charitable Fund at Schwab Charitable
Estelle H. Yates Foundation
2) LUMINARY
David and Margaret Ater
Valerie and Charles Diker
Howard L. Franks Memorial Scholarship Trust
Linda and Neal Krull* Endowment Fund AT SFCF
Janis and James Patterson
Charlie Pendergast and Kevin Connor
Deborah and Earl Potter
RiskPress Foundation
Melissa and Kristo Zorkin
3) VISIONARY
Chevron Corporation
Greater Toledo Foundation
Steve Fasken
Mary Lauritano and Skip Raschke
The Hayes Foundation
The Frost Foundation Ltd.
Thornburg Investment Management
Sandy Zane
4) VIRTUOSO
Anonymous 1
Anonymous 2
BoxStudio LLC
Jennifer and Kevin Box
City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department
Susan Dubin
Klinger Constructors
Dianna Edwards and Douglas Wyatt
Susan Ellerin
Charlotte Hetherington
Michael and Jeanne Klein
Amy McCombs
Andrea and Jon Nadler
Maria and Ed Gale
Susan and Steven Goldstein
Greater Toledo Foundation
Phil and Sue Marineau
Dee Ann McIntyre
Miranda Family Fund, Hispanic Federation
Brenda and Tom Nickoloff
Nickoloff Family Foundation
Sarah Nolan
Deborah Potter
Danny and Louise Rubin
Mary Sloane and Andrew Wallerstein
Mary Sully Foundation
Swartzberg Zoller Family Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Synakos Foundation
Courtney Finch-Taylor and Scott Taylor
William H. and Mattie Wattis Harris Foundation
Madeleine and B.T. Wright
Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
5) ENCORE
Anonymous
Benevity
Kelsey and Joshua Brown
Camille Canzone and Ronald Tarrson
Laura Clyburn
Marleen De Bode and Marc Olivié
Diane and Pete Doniger
Paula Sass Donnelly
Anne Embree Charitable Foundation
Jane Englebardt
Alexander Gancarz
Pamela and Richard Hanlon
Jane and Steve Hochberg
Ellen G. and Stephen G. Hoffman
Kerr Foundation
Richard Kipling *
Hollis Logan and Bob Weinberg
Melanie and Matthew McKinley
William A. Miller
Mind the Gap Fund at SFCF
Cindy and David Montoya
Francie Parker
Aaron Payne
Teresa and Douglas Peterson
Mary Patricia Rohman
Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation
Rita Schwartz
Wendy Smith
The Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Foundation
Toyota Of Santa Fe
David Warnock and Michele Speaks
Nancy Wirth
6) ENTHUSIAST
Lorin and David Abbey
Victoria Addison, Addison Rowe Fine Art
Janice M Ahern
Cathy Allen and Paul Rookers
Cindy Aloi and Irwin Sugarman
Perry Andrews
Tom Appelquist and Charles Newman
Carlota Baca
Russell Baker
Scott Baker
JoAnn and Bob Balzer
Suzanne Barker
Barker Properties
Susan Berk
Barb and Doug Brady
Suzanne Barker
Julia and Will Barnes
Bernadette Bell
Katie Bell and David Crocker
Susan Bell and Peter Ogilvie
Robin Black
Blackbaud Giving Fund
Nancy and Cliff Blaugrund
Richard and Jane Borchers
Suellen Bowersock and Gerald Reisz
Doug and Sarah Brown
Christine Cassell and Michael McCally
Susan Brower and Karen Walsh
Joey and Robin Chavez
Dale and Leslie Jackson Chihuly
Esha Chiocchio and Jamey Stillings
Gisele Galante Chulack
Barbara Cochran
D’Addario Foundation
Rob and Tracy Donnell
Amanda Duckworth
Karen and Stephen Durkovich
Aline Harris-Ellis and Terry Ellis
Encantado Engineering Consulting, LLC
Nancy Fairchild
Natalie Fitz-Gerald
Carl and Sandra Friedrichs
Carolyn Fulton
Patricia Galagan
Francisco Gella and Jeffrey Hoffman
David Gonzales and Andrea Pichaida
Robert Gonzalés and Stephen Redfield
Danielle Gothie
Pat Hall
Peggy and John Hamilton
Valerie and Bud Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton
David Hawkanson
Phil Haworth
Anne Hillerman
James Hindman and Elizabeth Daley
Deborah and David Holloway
Janice Sarah Hope
Pat and Peter Ives
Kwang-Wu Kim
Miles and Rachel Kimura
Lori Klinger
Carla Kountoupes
Robin Laughlin
Joan Lasker and Robert Sobel
Miren Letemendia
Living Artist Foundation Fund
Zelma Long and Phillip Freese
Linda and Daniel Lopez
Janet and Michael Mariano
Hannah Messerli and David Sterling
Minneapolis Foundation
Laurie Nash
John E. Nelson II
New Mexico Bank & Trust
Anita Ogard and George Strickland
Sarah Orr and Robert McLaughlin
Carol Prins and John Hart
Trina Raper
David Rubenstein and Marty Braniff
Steven Rudy and Anne Harris
Santa Fe Artists Market
Santa Fe Women’s Club and Library Association
Slate Stern and Eliza Gilbert
Barbara and Tim Thompson
Sherry Thompson and David Miller
Therese Trujillo
United Way of North Central New Mexico
Joan Vernick
Jo Whaley
Jeremy Yang and Cecile Hemez
Nancy Zeckendorf
7) FAN CLUB
Thomas and Carol Aageson
Anonymous
Carol Anthony
Jed Arcellana
Katherine Avalon
Irene Ayala
Craig Barnes
Cynthia Barrett
Ben Barthell
Karen Beall
Brett Berg
Teresina Berg
Bruce Berlin
Morse Bicknell
Ellen and Paul Biderman
Blackbaud Giving Fund
Gillian Blitch
Barbara Bloomberg
Jamie Blosser
Kim Bocaz
Eva and Ed Borins
Jeanne and Patrick Boyles
Anthony Breener
Robert Brooks
Carol and John Brown
Sheila Brown
Kathy and Rod Burnham
Peggy Burns
Cabin Fund
Roger Cacchiotti
Kathleen Camborde
Julie Cannon
Marcela Casaus
Chilton Capital Management LLC
Harvey Cohen
Jacob Cohen
John Cook
Cristina Cordova
Eric Crites and Simon Miera
Joshua Craft
Ann and William Daily
Steven Dayton
De Vargas Merchant’s Assoc.
Del Norte Lov Foundation
Frances Diemoz and Alan Webber
Bruce Donnell
Kaye and Chris Drahozal
Andrea Dupree
Sheila and Kirk Ellis
Marc Ellman
Andrew Epstein
Dolores Espinosa de Ortega and Carlos Ortega
Rita Fabrizio
Susan Feil
Peter Fisk and Tara White
Seana Flanagan
Doris Francis
Anne and William Frej
Felicitas Funke
George and Dorothy Gamble
Sarah Gartner
Carlos Gershenson
Michael Godwin
John Guffey
Barbara Hadley and John Burke
Tyra Hall
Harmony Hammond
Hankins Foundation
Cody Hartley
Lois Harvie
Sinclair Hatch
Susan Haynes
Karina Hean
Jim Henderson
Kirsten Henry
Jane Henzerling
Robert Heiser
Jill Heppenheimer
Craig Hoopes
Howard Huston
Peggy and Steve Immel
Denise Ip and Evan Geisler
Tobi Ives
Aries Jo
Carol Johnson
Michael Kaplan
Grayson Kirtland
Brenda Korting
Nancy Dean Kreger
Thomas Kurschner
David and Edita Ladd
Jeannie Leesman
Barbara Lenssen and Keith Anderson
Rinchen Lhamo
Edwina Lieb
Allegra Lillard
Laurie Overton and Tom Linton
Leonora Lorenzo
Lucy Lippard
John and Peggy Loyd
Margaret Lubalin
Robb Lucas
AnneMarie Lynch
Suzanne and Steven Lynne
Muriel and Robert McMillan
James and Peggy McGrath Morris
Ali MacGraw
Matthew Martinez
Fraser McAlpine
Acacia McCombs
Robert McLaughlin
Richard & Leslie McManus
Mesa Creative Solutions
Hannah Messerli
Mightycause Foundation
Mark Miller
Megan Mulry
Lisa and Derrick Montoya
Newcomers’ Club of Santa Fe, Inc
Nan Newton and Dave Grusin
Senator Cynthia Nava
Steve and Kevin Ness
Malkah Nestor
Lisa Oberteuffer
Cindy and Robert Orr
Our Change Foundation
Pam Parfitt
Bernadette Pena
Sarah Pfisterer and Rick Hilsabeck
Jan-Claire Phillips
Ann Pollock
Elisabeth Porter
Larry and Lauren Prescott
Janey Potts
Sara Priola
Reena Szczepanski
Helena Ribe
Elizabeth Romero
Lyn Rothman
Zoraida Palacios Rubel
Mary Jeffray Ryding
Dave Sampson
Michele Sanders
Seahollow Family Fund
Vickie Sewing
Mary Shoemaker and Patricia Shure
Bill Siegal and Mary Ellen Collins
Erik Singer
Lea and David Soifer
Francine Sommer
Sherry Stein
Maryirene Stevens
Suzanne Stone
Barbara Storper
Gerald and Jeanne Snyder
Paula Tackett
Marc Talbert
Luci Tapahonso and Robert Martin
Corey Taylor
The Pollock-Molchanov Foundation
The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Laughing Buddha Fund
Theater Santa Fe
Elmer and Deborah Torres
Jill and Senator Tom Udall
Wachspress Family Charitable Fund
Steven Weiner
Kevon Zehner and Ron Ritchhart
Natasha Zooma
IN-KIND
Frank Lux and Cynthia Forbes
Pamela Marshall
Reno Meyerson
Charles Palmer
Jon Schorr and Margot Amestoy
John Rangel and Barbara Bentree
Alice Bedard-Voorhees
Anne Wrinkle and David Veenstra
Barbara Kastner
Harriet Stosur
Max Raymond
Sallie Wesaw Sloan
Nicholas Chiarella
Pam Phillips
Andy Abernathy
Cynthia Geyer
Vickie Maenchen
Joy Lenit
Elise Atkins
Erin Foti
Roland Feiner
Chris Vigil
Anthony D’Agostino
Friends of the Library
Paul McDonald
Lighthouse Publications, Inc
Mary Pat Beach
Elaine Claire
Deborah Villa
* Deceased
A Round of Applause for our Incredible ArtSpring 2026 Corporate Sponsors!
Thank You!
