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Friends’ Circle: $1,000–$2,499 ($925–$2,399 of your gift is tax-deductible)
BAM/PFA Friends’ Circle Memberships are designed to deepen the art experience in the company of fellow art and film lovers. You can join one of three groups at the $1,000 level—Explorers, DMAX, or Cineastes. Can’t pick just one group? Then join all three with support between $1,500 and $2,499.
Includes all membership benefits of the Donor level, plus:
BAM/PFA Friends’ Circle Memberships are designed to deepen the art experience in the company of fellow art and film lovers. You can join one of three groups at the $1,000 level—Explorers, DMAX, or Cineastes. Can’t pick just one group? Then join all three with support between $1,500 and $2,499.
Includes all membership benefits of the Donor level, plus:
- Invitations to exclusive Spring and Fall celebration previews
- Priority seating for you and a guest at a selected education program
- Recognition on BAM/PFA’s donor wall, in the Annual Report, and in Art & Film Notes
Explorers’ Circle
If you’re an Explorer, you want a more in-depth experience with BAM/PFA. Explorer programs are focused on the pinnacles of the museum’s collection—American and international art, classical Asian art, or challenging work by today’s artists and dynamic collections and programs in the Bay Area.
Includes your Friends’ Circle benefits, plus invitations to two exclusive events.
If you’re an Explorer, you want a more in-depth experience with BAM/PFA. Explorer programs are focused on the pinnacles of the museum’s collection—American and international art, classical Asian art, or challenging work by today’s artists and dynamic collections and programs in the Bay Area.
Includes your Friends’ Circle benefits, plus invitations to two exclusive events.
DMAX Circle
DMAX members are early-adopters. If you’re excited by the inter-section of art and technology, consider joining this circle. DMAX programs are focused on digital media and culture as it unfolds in the Bay Area art scene, academia, and high-tech industry.
Includes your Friends’ Circle benefits, plus an invitation to a private conversation with digital media artists or experts and a curator-led excursion to a Bay Area event or digital festival.
DMAX members are early-adopters. If you’re excited by the inter-section of art and technology, consider joining this circle. DMAX programs are focused on digital media and culture as it unfolds in the Bay Area art scene, academia, and high-tech industry.
Includes your Friends’ Circle benefits, plus an invitation to a private conversation with digital media artists or experts and a curator-led excursion to a Bay Area event or digital festival.
Cineastes’ Circle
Love of cinema. That’s the powerful quality that brings together Cineaste members. Share your passion during Cineaste programs focused on films and filmmaking and with the actors, directors and cinematographers who regularly visit the Pacific Film Archive.
Includes your Friends’ Circle benefits, plus invitations to two film events with filmmakers or experts.
Love of cinema. That’s the powerful quality that brings together Cineaste members. Share your passion during Cineaste programs focused on films and filmmaking and with the actors, directors and cinematographers who regularly visit the Pacific Film Archive.
Includes your Friends’ Circle benefits, plus invitations to two film events with filmmakers or experts.
shape contemporary culture
Collectors’ Circle: $2,500–$4,999 This is a unique opportunity. Working closely with BAM/PFA Director Lawrence Rinder and Chief Curator Lucinda Barnes, Collectors help to shape the BAM/PFA collection by selecting art to be purchased using a portion of the museum’s acquisitions budget. If you’re a Collectors’ Circle member, you are energized by looking at art and enjoy talking with artists about their work. During three curator-led meetings, which include studio visits, you’ll make careful study of three Bay Area artists, culminating in a vote to decide which of their works to purchase for the collection. Enrich your knowledge of art and art collecting . . . become a Collector.
Collectors’ Circle
Includes all benefits of the Friends’ Circle level, plus:
Includes all benefits of the Friends’ Circle level, plus:
- Opportunity to shape the museum’s collection by working closely with curatorial staff to select art to be purchased by the museum
- Exclusive access to a curator-led tour of artist studios in the Bay Area
- Invitation to two events featuring artists, collectors, or other special guests
- Reserved seating for you and three guests at a selected education program
For more information about gifts of $5,000 and above, please call the BAM/PFA Director of Development at (510) 643-2194.
Choose from these easy ways to join or renew:
- Purchase a membership online now!
- Call (510) 642-5249
- Visit the museum admissions desk or PFA Theater box office
- Download the Membership Brochure (PDF)
- Fax (510) 642-7724
- Mail to: BAM/PFA, P.O. Box 4796, Berkeley, CA 94704
