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YOU DID IT!
Thank you all! Through your generosity, we met our 25th anniversary End of Year Appeal challenge to raise $25,000, and will receive matching funds of $25,000.
Your support is essential to making Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project a success, and we can't thank you enough for helping us achieve this ambitious goal.
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25 YEARS ON THE ROCKS, 2024 IN REVIEW
Our 25th anniversary was a busy and successful year. Here's a review of some of the highlights:
- Our friends at Southwest Seminars hosted Executive Director Matthew Martinez for his presentation, Geographies of the Sacred.
- Bill & Anne Frej, and Polly Schaafsma joined us at the Santa Fe Womens Club to share insights into their book, Blurred Boundaries, Perspectives on Rock Art of the Greater Southwest.
- Project Founder Katherine Wells led a tour on the preserve, taking guests to see some of her personal favorite petroglyphs, and share stories over lunch at her home.
- Long time volunteers and supporters of MPPP Candie and Lee Borduin, were honored by the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division with an Individual Achievement Award for Heritage Preservation.
- We enjoyed a delicious meal of indigenous cuisine, prepared by chefs Lois Ellen Frank, PhD, and Walter Whitewater, with wines provided by Black Mesa Winery, and graciously hosted by the Santa Fe School of Cooking.
- Our annual Summer Youth Intern Program was a big success with 17 students attending, ranging in age from 12 to 18, and representing Santa Fe Indian School, Los Alamos, Mesa Vista, Española, and southern Colorado.
- Stories of Long Ago Told, a special exhibit of Mesa Prieta history, featuring the photography of board member Norman Doggett, opened at the Bond House Museum in Española, and was well attended over the course of the exhibit.
- We welcomed esteemed speakers and over 200 guests to our two-day 25th Anniversary Symposium at Northern New Mexico College.
- Our new Project Archaeologist, Jerod Roberts, joined MPPP in October, bringing his years of experience at Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center with him.
- We celebrated the efforts and commitment of our fabulous cadre of MPPP volunteers with a picnic at Katherine Wells' home on the Mesa to thank them for all the work they do for the Project.
- Art Cruz from Ohkay Owingeh presented The Story of Phiogeh and the Hopi-Tewa at First Mesa at the Bond House.
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CHANGE AT THE PROJECT
Executive Director Matthew Martinez has been called upon by Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo to fill the position of First Lieutenant Governor. While the demands of this appointment will limit the time he will be spending at the project, he will remain MPPP's Executive Director in a consulting role. His length of term is two years, after which we look forward to his return as a full time employee.
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A FINAL THANK YOU
To our hardworking Board of Directors, who put so much into making MPPP a success, often working behind the scenes without recognition, thank you for your time, your experience, and your expertise that you bring to the Project.
-Alec W. Kercsó, Board President, Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project
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OUR MISSION
The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project is exclusively organized for charitable and educational purposes, including the promotion of heritage stewardship and the preservation of archaeological features and the environment and cultural landscape of the Mesa Prieta region of the northern Rio Grande Valley through documentation, education and outreach.
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