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.

Any Questions? Contact Program Chairman Mary Dale Gordon at 505-982-9667

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. Future dates and titles to be announced.