Naming Opportunities – Memorialize a Loved One

MOLAA’s Naming Opportunities program allows you to place your name, the name of a loved one or your company’s name on a venue (gallery, art studio, conference room), on sculpture and on exotic plants across the MOLAA campus.  

Naming programs can be personally created to fit your needs. Most of our opportunities include the display of your name in perpetuity. 

Sculpture Garden and Outdoor Event Venue - taken
The 15,000 sq. ft. sculpture garden and outdoor event venue will feature a seating capacity of 700, a performance stage and state-of-the-art audio and lighting systems.  It will allow MOLAA to broaden its programming and offer cultural events to larger and more diverse audiences.  The garden will exhibit the museum’s growing collection of monumental Latin American sculptures in a desert-influenced landscape.

Balboa Multi-purpose Cultural Center
The Balboa is a 6,000 sq. ft. facility that accommodates MOLAA’s broad range of cultural events, educational programs, lectures, fashion shows, concerts, fundraising galas, museum receptions and private parties.  The Balboa is equipped with sound and lighting systems and moveable seating.  The venue also houses two separate programming spaces: MOLAA’s Lecture Hall and the Children’s Art Lab.  The Balboa is a highly trafficked area.

Permanent Collection Gallery (available for shared sponsorship)
The Permanent Collection Gallery is the museum’s largest exhibition space.  It features rotating exhibitions from MOLAA’s vast collection of contemporary Latin American fine art.

Main Exhibition Gallery (available for shared sponsorship)
Adjacent to the Permanent Collection Gallery, the traveling exhibition gallery features dynamic traveling shows from museum and galleries throughout the United States and Latin America.  Past exhibitions include the work of Fernando Botero and Rufino Tamayo.

Long Gallery
This gallery serves as the entrance to the museum’s traveling exhibition and Permanent Collection galleries.  The Long Gallery features highlights from our prestigious Latin American art collection in addition to artwork on loan from the Smithsonian Institution.

Lexus Gallery – taken
This new 2,000 sq. ft. gallery, located adjacent to the museum store, will feature special traveling exhibitions as selected by MOLAA’s Curatorial Department. 

Retail Store – taken
The expansion of the museum lobby will allow for the strategic relocation of the retail store.  The new centrally located store will serve as the primary exit for patrons visiting the exhibition galleries.  Most importantly, the relocation and expansion of the store will increase the museum’s ability to sustain itself through the promotion of Latino art and culture.

Research Library
The new library will be a definitive resource on Latin American art, culture and heritage in the western United States.  It will serve educators, students, scholars and the general public with its extensive collection of print and digital materials.

Educational Art Studio
The creation of the art studio will enable MOLAA to provide three times more k-12 students with hands on art experience through its School Tours and Art Workshops, Sundays@MOLAA and Summer Art Experience programs.

Charter Film Screening Venue – taken
The new screening room will allow MOLAA to present educational films about Latin American art, people and culture, award-winning feature films by Latin American filmmakers and films created specifically for MOLAA’s exhibitions.

Balboa Lecture Hall and Classroom
Located in the Balboa Multipurpose Center, the lecture hall and classroom seats up to 100 people and is used for lectures and film series.

Balboa Children’s Art Lab
The children’s art workshop accommodates thousands of students who visit MOLAA each year through our educational programming.  The interactive lab provides a hands-on environment where visiting classes can explore a variety of art mediums such as ceramics and painting.

Conference Room: downstairs
Located in the museum’s new administrative offices, the downstairs conference room will accommodate staff and docent meetings in addition to meetings with artists, donors, business associates and collaborating organizations. 

Conference Room: upstairs
The upstairs conference room will serve as the formal meeting room for MOLAA’s Board of Directors, visiting artists and dignitaries and other important occasions.

Angel de las Americas by Pérez Celis – taken
Argentenian master Pérez Celis created Angel de las Americas especially for MOLAA’s Sculpture Garden in 2005.  The statue now resides at the main entrance to the museum.  The vibrant multi-colored statue was created with aluminum and measures ten feet tall and six and a half feet wide. 

Objetos del mundo by Gustavo López Armentía
Objetos del mundo is a mixed media sculpture by Argentinean self-taught master, Gustavo López Armentía.  The “objects” measure approximately ten feet tall and one foot wide, making it one of the largest sculptures in MOLAA’s garden.

Time Traveler by Cecilia Miguez
Created especially for MOLAA by Uruguayan sculptor Cecilia Miguez, Time Traveler was made from bronze and gypsum composite and measures over five feet tall and two feet wide.

Living Sculptures
Visitors will encounter three monumental potted plants, designed to serve as living sculptures, as they enter MOLAA’s sculpture garden.  Each four-foot diameter ceramic pot will feature and Agave Americana Variegata, a beautiful succulent commonly referred to as a Centruy Plant and Aporocactus Flagellisormis or Rattail Cactus, a hanging cactus variety that produces pink blossoms in the spring.

Benches
Visitors experience the natural elements of MOLAA’s architectural design on benches located adjacent to the dramatic waterfall.