CELEBRATING MUSEUM MEMBERS - Museum Foundation
CELEBRATING MUSEUM MEMBERS - Museum Foundation
CELEBRATING MUSEUM MEMBERS - Museum Foundation
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Business Council<br />
Members<br />
as of January 1, 2012<br />
The Business Council comprises New Mexico business leaders<br />
who together contribute more than $200,000 annually in<br />
financial support and in-kind services to benefit the <strong>Museum</strong> of<br />
New Mexico’s museums, monuments and Office of Archaeological<br />
Studies. Connecting art, culture and commerce, the<br />
Business Council provides members with valuable networking<br />
opportunities at our museums and other cultural venues.<br />
CHAirMAn’s COunCil<br />
$10,000 AnD ABOvE<br />
Buffalo Thunder<br />
Resort & Casino<br />
Garcia Automotive Group<br />
Hutton Broadcasting<br />
La Fonda on the Plaza<br />
Neutrogena Corporation<br />
The Santa Fe New Mexican<br />
nATiOnAl COunCil<br />
$5,000 TO $9,999<br />
American General Media<br />
Century Bank<br />
Comcast Spotlight<br />
Encantado, An Auberge Resort<br />
Heritage Hotels & Resorts<br />
Los Alamos National Bank<br />
New Mexico Business Weekly<br />
Reynolds Insurance<br />
Santa Fe Trust<br />
SOFA WEST<br />
Thornburg<br />
Investment Management<br />
Western Art and Architecture<br />
GOvErnOr’s COunCil<br />
$2,500 TO $4,999<br />
Adobo Catering<br />
Bishop’s Lodge<br />
Ranch Resort and Spa<br />
Catron, Catron & Pottow<br />
Eight Modern<br />
Eldorado Hotel and Spa<br />
Hilton Santa Fe<br />
Hotel Santa Fe<br />
Inn of the Governors<br />
Los Poblanos Inn and<br />
Historic Cultural Center<br />
Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi<br />
Sotheby’s International Realty,<br />
Ashley Margetson<br />
Storyteller Theatres<br />
The Essential Guide<br />
The Zenchilada.com<br />
rEGEnTs’ COunCil<br />
$1,500 TO $2,499<br />
Albuquerque Journal North<br />
AlphaGraphics<br />
Andrew Neighbour<br />
Photography<br />
Asian Adobe<br />
Blue Rain Gallery<br />
Canyon Road Flowers<br />
Careers First<br />
Casa Cuma B&B<br />
CB Richard Ellis /<br />
Crow Holdings<br />
Chalmers Capitol Ford<br />
Cisneros Design<br />
Classic Party Rentals<br />
CPC Solutions<br />
Dana Waldon Photography<br />
David Richard<br />
Contemporary, LLC l<br />
Dougherty Real Estate Co.<br />
El Rey Inn<br />
Galpert/Ortega Group<br />
of Wells Fargo Advisors<br />
Get Printing<br />
GF Contemporary<br />
Hatcher & Tebo, P.A.<br />
Inn at Santa Fe<br />
Inn on the Alameda<br />
Invisible City Designs<br />
JLH Media l<br />
Knitworks, LLC<br />
Kyla Thompson<br />
Public Relations<br />
Lamplighter Inn<br />
Local Flavor Magazine<br />
Marja Custom Catering<br />
Marshall Plan<br />
Nedra Matteucci Galleries<br />
Old Santa Fe Inn<br />
Paper Tiger<br />
Paul Thompson & Associates /<br />
Santa Fe Valet<br />
Peas ‘n’ Pod Catering, Inc.<br />
PHOTO COURTESY DEBORAH FRITZ<br />
Deborah Fritz<br />
and GF Contemporary<br />
Building Community through Business and Art<br />
Los Alamos native Deborah Fritz moved to Santa Fe in 1997 with<br />
an art history degree from the University of New Mexico and<br />
dreams of being a sculptor. Instead, she found success in the art<br />
of being a gallery director.<br />
In February 2001, Fritz opened Giaccobe-Fritz Fine Art on Canyon<br />
Road, in partnership with her sister, Kimberly Giacobbe. In 2009,<br />
she opened another gallery, GF Contemporary, across the street.<br />
Together, the galleries represent a unique continuum of art, from<br />
traditional representational paintings, sculpture and graphics to<br />
more contemporary expressions in various media.<br />
“I pinch myself every day that I get to do what I love,” Fritz says.<br />
Fritz’s passion for art includes membership in the <strong>Museum</strong><br />
of New Mexico <strong>Foundation</strong> Business Council. An individual<br />
museum member since 2006, she took advantage of a special<br />
offer to members of the Santa Fe Art Gallery Association, where<br />
she serves as vice president, to join the Business Council. A<br />
New Mexico <strong>Museum</strong> of Art devotee and member of Friends of<br />
Contemporary Art, Fritz saw the Business Council as a way to<br />
support the museum on a professional level.<br />
“<strong>Museum</strong> Director Mary Kershaw’s energy and excitement and<br />
the new directions she’s taking the museum in are really exciting,”<br />
she says.<br />
Fritz not only increased her annual membership contribution to<br />
join the Business Council, she volunteered to serve on the group’s<br />
steering committee. In this role, Fritz now encourages other business<br />
owners to join and participate in the cultural community.<br />
“I say to my colleagues and competitors, ‘I think that part<br />
of the success of my business is my involvement in the community,’”<br />
she says. “The Business Council connects you to others<br />
who you may work with down the road, but the number one<br />
benefit is to support our community and our heritage. If you<br />
love this community, there’s no better way to support it than<br />
through the museums.”<br />
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