Donation

Special Philanthropic Project

American Art Form: A Century of Zuni and Navajo Jewelry. Amerind is home to one of the largest and best documented Zuni and Navajo jewelry collections in the world; jewelers who pioneered a uniquely American art form that thrust Indigenous design and vision onto a global stage. We have many plans for the collection in the years ahead from more Indigenous artist talks and residencies through new facilities to expand archival storage and Amerind programming. You can be a part of expanding community-learning opportunities and Amerind’s long-term plans for the new collection.

Curator Endowment

The care and protection of Amerind’s world class collection of 38,000 objects requires dedicated full-time curatorial leadership with appropriate and stable financial resources. Our Chief Curator position, the William Duncan Fulton Curator of Anthropology, is funded by the Endowment and leads all of our curatorial work, collections care, and museum exhibition strategy.

You, the Amerind community, have an opportunity to make an endowed gift of any amount. Your ongoing support of the Curator Endowment will continue growing this critical resource for our museum, long into the future.