Your generosity helps to ensure that children and learners of all ages will experience a greatly expanded roster of hands-on education programs and inspiring craft workshops at a transformed Mingei.
2020 has been a year unlike any other — one where all of us have been, and continue to be, affected by the global pandemic. Still, Mingei International Museum continues to be here for the community — reaching thousands with free arts programming, and just this September, presenting the first-ever San Diego Design Week.
Our annual contributors and members, since our closure for renovation, have enabled Mingei to serve San Diego while the physical Museum is closed. We are bringing Family Sunday to families quarantined at home, mailing free art materials and providing engaging how-to videos and live tutorial events. Our Art of the People outreach program is virtual too, with staff distributing craft kits, lesson plans and essential supplies to support students, parents and educators at schools in City Heights. We invite you to contribute to our Annual Appeal to allow the Museum to continue to provide essential programs like these.
Your support will also help us share Mingei’s unique collection from around the world with community exhibitions like 2019’s Crafting Opportunity at the Downtown Public Library and this fall’s MANEKI NEKO—Japan's Beckoning Cats at the Japanese Friendship Garden and Around the World with Mingei International Museum at the Coronado Public Library. We know the exhibition experience will be different, but we also know that now, more than ever, our exhibitions of folk art, craft and design can provide San Diego with inspiration and respite.
As we continue to plan for a bright future, we look forward to welcoming you, in 2021, to a transformed Mingei — a more accessible, dynamic museum for all. Until then, the Museum will do all it can to spark creativity and share beauty with students, families, grandparents, artists and virtual “visitors” of all ages.
2020 Annual Appeal Supporters
as of February 12, 2021
Thank you for your essential support!
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Rick Accurso and Paige Gilman
Karen and Kenji Akahoshi
Lorna Alcala
Eugene A. and Patricia C. Alfaro
Gary Allard
American Quilt Study Group
Nancy Anderson
Greti and John Baez
Warren and Barbara Bakley
Elaine Baldwin in honor of Theresa Lai
Venita Ballinger in memory of Arlene Eding
Katherine Bangen
Robert and Sarah Barnes
Cia and Larry Barron in honor of Margaret Adams
Jan Bast
Lori Baxter
Connie Beardsley
Lauren Beaudry
Mary Beebe and Charles Reilly
Sol and Virginia Blechman in memory of Nessa Moll
Arthur Boothroyd and Carol Mackersie
Penelope Borax in memory of John Donald
Pat Boyce and Debbie Fritsch
Althea M. Brimm
Gordon Brodfuehrer
Terri Bryson
Harriette E. Buros
Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Canada
Judith Ciampoli
Lynda Claassen
Linda Coates
Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Cochrane
Nan Coffin and Richard Burkett
Cecelia Conover
Roger C. Cornell, M.D.
Marion E. Craven
Patricia Cué
Alison Cummings
Donna J. Damson
Gary and Denise David
Jim and Mary Dawe
Katy and Mike Dessent in honor of Mingei's entire staff during COVID
Nancy Dewees
Carol and Martin Dickinson
Olivia and Clive Dorman
Carolyn Dreyer
Jack and Lorrain Duffy
Berit and Tom Durler
Peter and Doris Ellsworth
Judy and Ron Endeman
Marilyn K. Felfe
Diane and Elliot Feuerstein Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
Arline M. Fisch
Dr. Jacque Lynn Foltyn
Ashley Fong and Alex Whitmore
Joan L. Forbes in honor of Lucia Snalheer
Kay and Terry Foster
Lotus Fragola
Catherine R. Friedman
J. R. Gates
Joyce M. Gattas, PhD
Christine Gill
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Goldbaum
Bill and Sharon Goldschneider
Marcy Goldstone
Laurel Gonsalves
Jonathan Goodmacher
Beverly Goodman
Edry Goot
Leslie Grace
Anne Grauzlis
Dr. Thomas J. Green and Mrs. Rosalie Green
Tor Gronborg and Michelle Look, M.D.
Jane Groover Maydahl
Gail Hall and Douglas Hall
Jay and Mary Hanson
Andrea Hanson and Chris Szwedo
Carol Harlow
Patrick Harrison and Eleanor Lynch
Barbara and Jim Hartung
Diana Hawes
Jerome L. and Lucille Heard
Michelle and Ron Hebdon
Lawrence and Suzanne Hess
Lindsey High in honor of Maureen King
Julie Hocking
Judy Hollingshead
Marilee Hong
Jane and Bruce Hopkins
Melanie Howe
Mary M. Howell
James T. and Anne Hubbell
Geoffrey Hueter and Laura Henson
Scott and Carolyn Ingham
Marsha Janger and Richard Shapiro
Nancy C. Janus
Sonja Jones
David K. Jordan
Louise Julig
Miriam L. Jupp
Gayle Kauihou and Dave Hampton
Maurice M. Kawashima
Kristin Kelly
Dr. Patricia R. Kelly and Mr. Michael Kelly
Heather and Ron Kerner
Phyllis M. Kessel
Paula King
Karen Kinney and Mary Schilling
Kathleen V. Kish
Helen S. Klein
Eric and Zoe Kleinbub
Dave and Sue Knop
Nancy and Curt Koch
Jean F. Kockinos
Aline Koppel
Ellen Koutsky
Martin and Barbara Kruming
The Kubo Family
Theresa F. Lai
Clara Larson in memory of L. Curtis Larson
Eloise Lau and Dan Kinnard
Barbara Lavinio-Schmitz and Richard Schmitz
Alan Lawson in memory of Arlene Sontag
Michael and Teresa Lewis in honor of Theresa Lai
Jean Litchfield
Claudia Lowenstein
Robin B. Luby
Kyong Macek
James and Carol Maloney
Julianne and Gregory Markow in honor of Audrey Ratner
Harold and Beverly Martyn
Wendy Maruyama and Bill Schairer
Ambassador Richard C. Matheron in memory of Katherine Matheron
Sharon McGhee
Courtenay C. McGowen
Jeanne M. McGowen
Margaret McKerrow
Douglas and Susan McLeod
Renee Menard
Carol J. Mendoza
Elinor Merl and Mark Brodie
Judy Meyer in memory of Arlene Eding
Clyde and Kathleen Miller
Bonnie Minamide
Rena Minisi and Rich Paul
Deborah Moceri
Billie Moffitt
Judith B. Morgan in memory of Elizabeth and Joe Yamada
Liz Morrison
David and Becky Mrachek
Daniel Mueller and JoAnn Pari-Mueller
Alo Munizza
Sheena and Wayne Myers
Joani Nelson
Lyn Nelson
Carl D. Nelson in honor of Tindera DiStefano
Nancy Nenow
Rhoda Nevins and Eddie Kleiman
Judith Nicolaidis
Caroline and Nick Nordquist in honor of Heather, Christine, Cristina and Jess
Amber O'Banion and Alexis O'Banion
Virginia Oliver
Catherine and Bob Palmer
Sharon Perkowski and Mariah Smith
Frances Petefish in memory of Foy Beck
Gale and James Petrie
Jared Post
Claudia Prescott
Kerianne Quick
Dennis Ragen and Christine Hickman
Audrey S. Ratner
Jerry Ray
Vicki and Jack Reed
Joan Reilly and Satinder Raina
Doug and Jan Rightmer
Susan Riley
Rob Roberto
Toni Robin TR/PR
Allison Rossett
Joyleen Rottenstein
Patricia Rutledge
Cathy Sang
Sharon Salazar in memory of Pat MacGillis
Carolyn Satter
Mark Schantz
Susan Schiffer
Patricia Schneider
Connie Schroeder
Judy Seerey
Pat and John Seiber
John Shen
Curt Sherman
Virginia and Lawrence Sherwood in memory of Kate Seeley
Barbara Skidmore
Kathleen Sloan
Lucia W. Smalheer
Nancy E. Snyder
Elisabeth Spiegelberg
Jeanette Stevens
Thomas Straus
Cynthia Stribling and Paul Webb
Lisa Sidner Suydam
Sandy and Michael Swirnoff
Takahashi Family Fund at The San Diego Foundation
Kathy Till in honor of Maurice and Charmaine Kaplan
Margaret P. Trader
Irving G. Tragen in memory of Nessa Moll
Sandra Tredwell and Robert Scott
Paul Turner and Lizette Liebold
Angie Turner
Wayne and Rose Tyson
Sara Vickers
Leslie Vinson
Dr. Osvaldo Humberto Viveros and Mrs. Yolanda Viveros
Helen Wagner in honor of Founder Martha Longenecker
Julie Walke
Robert D. Wallace in honor of Terri Bryson
Patricia L. Waller
Katharine Wardle and Patricia Brennan
Marian Warwick
Jon Weisenburg
Abby and Ray Weiss
Linda J. West
Linda M. White
M. E. Whitlock and Don Fithian
Hilary Whittaker
Al and Armi Williams
Arch Woodard
Emiliene M. Yaeger
LeAnna S. Zevely
Terri Peterson Zimdars