invitation packet Wellesley Business Leadership Council Spring Retreat 2015 SANTA FE, NM

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1 invitation packet Wellesley Business Leadership Council Spring Retreat 2015 SANTA FE, NM MAY 14-17, 2015

2 letter from retreat chairs Dear friends, It is with great excitement that we invite you to this year s Spring Retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We have some fabulous accvices planned, as well as space for some all- important relaxacon Cme. We have tried to develop a program that will expose the group to Santa Fe s unique history as the oldest Capitol in the U.S., diverse culture (NaCve American, Hispanic and Anglo), iconic art and architecture, and delicious cuisine. New Mexico is called "The Land of Enchantment" and Santa Fe is known as The City Different. It is our deepest hope that by the end of the rejuvenacng retreat you will know why! There is far more than one can see in just three days in Santa Fe. If you can stay longer, you may want to visit the many places that are further outside the city, such as Taos, Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch (where Georgia O'Keeffe lived and painted for so many years), Los Alamos, and places to hike such as Bandolier NaConal Monument and Tent Rocks NaConal Monument. With 15 museums and over 250 art galleries in Santa Fe, one can only scratch the surface of all the art it offers in three days! So if you possibly can, plan to come early or stay later. If this is appealing to you, the concierge desk at our home base hotel, the Inn and Spa at Lore_o, can provide you with all manner of details. If you have any quescons about the agenda or travel arrangements, please don t hesitate to ask. We hope you will join us for this very special retreat! Best regards, Ellen Hoffman and Manisha Thakor BLC Retreat 2015 Commi_ee Co- Chairs QuesCons? Please feel free to ellen_g_hoffman@yahoo.com or manisha@moneyzen.com

3 AGENDA AT A GLANCE MAY IN SANTA FE Please note that this agenda is tenta.ve & subject to slight changes. Thursday night Arrive at hotel - Inn and Spa at Lore_o 7:00 pm Dinner at Pink Adobe Friday 8:00-9:30 am Breakfast at hotel in Hopi Room with Kay Lewis 10:00-11:30 am Walking Tour 12:00-2:00 pm Lunch at La Posada 2:30 pm Victoria Addison's House on Palace 4:00 pm Addison- Rowe Gallery on E. Marcy 5:00 pm O'Keeffe Museum 7:00-9:00 pm Penthouse cocktail party/dinner Saturday Breakfast on own at hotel (or in town for early birds) 9:00 am Leave hotel for Allan Houser Sculpture Garden and Gallery 12:00 pm Lunch at Museum Hill Aoernoon at Museum Hill or free Cme Pick- up at 4:30 pm at Museum Hill 6:00 pm Cocktails at Golden Dawn Gallery 7:30 Dinner at Santacafe Sunday Morning Breakfast on own & Check out

4 AGENDA in detail We will kick off the retreat with dinner Thursday night at The Pink Adobe, a historic building and one of the oldest restaurants in the city, just a short walk from our hotel, the Inn and Spa at Lore_o. Friday we will start with breakfast together in a private room in the hotel and an introduccon to the history and culture of the city by one of the most experienced local guides, Kay Lewis. Aoer breakfast she will take us on a walking tour of historic downtown Santa Fe. We will break for a leisurely lunch in the beaucful courtyard of another historic venue, La Posada. Post lunch we will have the opportunity to visit a very old private home that has been carefully restored and filled with the owners' extraordinary colleccons. Aoer this we will visit the art gallery of one of the home s owners, which focuses on the Taos Society of ArCsts and American Modernism. Many galleries downtown and around the Canyon Road area are open uncl 7:00 Friday night and some museums also have free admission at this Cme, so those who wish can concnue exploring. Cocktails and dinner Friday will be in the Penthouse of the Inn and Spa at Lore_o. This beaucful suite of rooms is all ours for the night, and affords exquisite views of the city and surrounding area from its five terraces. We hope to relax, have interescng discussions, and reflect on what we have seen.

5 AGENDA in detail, cont. On Saturday you will have Cme to have a leisurely breakfast on your own before boarding a bus to go to the beaucful Allan Houser Sculpture Garden and Gallery (click here to view the website) in Galisteo. Allan is the most famous NaCve American Sculptor, and Dave Reug, curator of Allan Houser Inc., will be our guide. Allan died in 1994, but Dave knew him well and has a wealth of knowledge about Allan, his family, his work, as well as other famous NaCve American arcsts would have been Allan's 100th birthday, and 12 museums in the U.S. had shows in his honor. The Salt Lake Olympics displayed 18 of his monumental sculptures around the plaza where the medals were awarded, and his work was featured the first year that the NaConal Museum of the American Indian opened in Washington, D.C. The sculpture garden has wonderful views of the surrounding mountains and hills, and will give you a taste of the serenity and spiritual feeling so many a_ribute to their Cme in Santa Fe.

6 AGENDA in detail, cont. Aoer our tour we will head back to Santa Fe for lunch at The Cafe on Museum Hill, with Cme aoer to visit any of the four museums up there (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, InternaConal Folk Art Museum, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, or the Wheelwright Museum). Those who wish to explore other parts of the city instead can take the van back to town to do some shopping, visit other museums and galleries, or take advantage of the serene spa at the hotel. We have a special treat Saturday evening. Margarete Bagshaw, a third generacon woman arcst who is the daughter and granddaughter of the two most famous woman NaCve American arcsts (Pablita Velarde and Helen Hardin) has offered to host us for cocktails in her gallery, surrounded by the work of her family. It is fascinacng to see the evolucon from her grandmother Pablita, the first NaCve American woman painter, who defied the convencons of what a woman should do, to her mother Helen's work, which developed NaCve images into more abstract paincngs, to Margarete's, which is very abstract and colorful, influenced especially by the years she lived in the Caribbean. We will then have dinner at the iconic Santacafe restaurant under the stars if it s warm enough! Sunday is a day for you to crao, seeking breakfast out on your own for one last meal in the City Different, and then home again unless you can stay longer. MARGARETE BAGSHAW

7 traveling to santa fe Santa Fe is so stunning because it is clean and virtually free of air pollucon. The challenge of this is that it takes some advance planning in order to fly in. Here are the key things you need to know: 1) You have opcons. Many believe they are limited to flights arriving at the Santa Fe Airport (SAF). If you book your flight to arrive at the Albuquerque Airport (ABQ), you will find many more flight opcons. Unless you are coming through or from Dallas, Denver or LA, you probably want to fly into ABQ. It is only an hour ride, all straight highway to Santa Fe. 2) Book as early as possible Please keep in mind that flight prices to both ABQ & SAF tend to increase quite a bit in the last 30 days prior to travel. As such, we strongly encourage you to book as early as possible. 3) You will need ground transportacon in advance. The Santa Fe and Albuquerque airports are different than metropolitan airports, in that ground transportacon must be arranged in advance (there are no cabs to Santa Fe waicng at the curb!). Here are a few great opcons: FROM ABQ: Book a shared ride via Sandia Shu_le from ABQ that will take you directly to the hotel. If you d rather rent a car, you can do so using most any company if you re arriving at ABQ. FROM SAF: Book a shared ride through Road Runner. If you d rather rent a car, Hertz and Avis are available.

8 LODGING We will be staying at the Inn and Spa at Lore_o. This hotel was built to look like Taos Pueblo, and the spa was named the 20th best hotel spa in the U.S. We have negocated a group rate of $189 a night for both rooms with single and double beds. You may book online with the hotel directly using the group code: G0I7U7. AlternaCvely you may call ReservaCons Toll Free at or the Hotel Direct Toll Free at and reference either the group code or our group s name (Wellesley College Business Leadership Council). If you choose to rent a car, we have negocated a discounted rate of $11 for overnight parking. Please note that the hotel is holding 20 rooms at a tour group rate and they will be released on April 14th. So please book early as rooms can be hard to come by in Santa Fe during the glorious spring months.

9 ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES RECREATION + RELAXATION Santa Fe School of Cooking Golfing Hiking Fishing Biking Art Classes Photography Workshops Randall Davey Audubon Center Ten Thousand Waves Luxury Spa The Spa at the Lore_o GALLERIES (a few of the 250 in Santa Fe) Gerald Peters Nedra Ma_eucci Zane Benne_ Contemporary Art Zaplin Lampert Gallery Blue Rain Gallery The Owings Gallery Andrea Fisher Fine Po_ery SHOPPING Malouf on the Plaza Santa Fe Dry Goods Rainbow Man Various museum stores Portal at Palace of the Governors For a full list of accvices, and/or for help planning your visit, please contact the concierge at The Inn & Spa at Lore_o: (866)

10 REGISTRATION The registracon fee for this year s magical retreat is $600. This fee includes all group meals and accvices, unless stated otherwise on the agenda. Hotel and airfare are not included in the registrawon price. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or visit h_p://wellesleyblc.org/retreat2015