– About FAMA

FAMA Board Members Deborah Ziska and Pablo Zuniga welcome you to join us at the Art Museum of the Americas.

Founded by Washington arts patron Barbara Gordon, and incorporated in November 1977, Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas (FAMA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that supports the mission of the Organization of American States, Art Museum of the Americas (OAS|AMA) by actively engaging a community of donors who are interested in art and artists of the Americas.

FAMA hosts special exhibition and embassy receptions, concerts, tours, studio visits, and other events to expand our community of Friends and support the museum. Charitable donations to the Friends are tax deductible and support the public exhibitions, community and educational programs, publications, and special projects at Art Museum of the Americas.


In the photo, left to right: FAMA Board Members Pablo Zuñiga, President Robert Nealon, Vice President
Deborah Ziska, Treasurer Carlos Calderon, Giuliana Ahlers, and Olga Herrera stand on the terrace of AMA
during a reception. Behind them is the OAS Headquarters, which was designated as a National Historic
Landmark by the U.S. National Park Service in 2022.

When you donate to FAMA, you become a member with benefits. You may renew your membership annually. To learn more, click here: FAMA Membership.

About AMA

AMA | Art Museum of the Americas—part of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC—holds one of the world’s leading collections of modern art of the Americas and operates on the principle that the arts are transformative for individuals and communities.

This belief simultaneously serves to promote the core values of by providing a space for cultural expression, creativity, dialogue, and learning, highlighting themes such as democracy, development, human rights, justice, freedom of expression, and innovation.

AMA’s work advances the inter-American agenda, drawing on the arts to showcase a constructive vision of the future of the Americas via local and hemispheric cultural exchange. This is achieved by showcasing cutting-edge exhibits of artists whose output creatively combine aesthetics with topical social and political issues and by establishing a dialogue of these works with AMA’s collection and diverse audiences, locally and globally.

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