Native America Calling: IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts leaps ahead

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Native America Calling: IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts leaps ahead

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe just received its largest donation ever.

The $3 million unrestricted donation comes from MacKenzie Scott and her husband Dan Jewett, and was among the 286 gifts to help change the narrative about people struggling against inequities. The gift follows a $1.7 million grant from the Ford Foundation in 2020.

The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was the recipient of a $3 million gift from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett. After shutting down during COVID-19, MoCNA reopened to the public on June 17, 2021. Photo by Indianz.Com (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

And Scott previously donated $5 million to the IAIA.

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