BAMPFA Curator's Circle

Curator’s Circle members play a crucial role in BAMPFA's ability to showcase the highest quality art and film programming and foster new knowledge about the vast array of cultures and historically significant works represented in our collection. Your contributions help to underwrite in-person conversations with artists and filmmakers from around the world, while also making BAMPFA programs widely accessible by allowing us to offer free admission to children, regular Community Days and Free First Thursdays, and free gallery admission and discounted film tickets to SNAP participants.

Become a Curator’s Circle member today to get and give the best of BAMPFA!

Levels & Benefits

Join BAMPFA’s premier donor group, the Curator’s Circle, and enjoy enhanced access to exhibitions and film programs as well as intimate events and behind-the-scenes activities with artists, filmmakers, curators, collectors, and fellow patrons.

$1,200 Curator's Circle
(Two cardholders; $738 tax deductible)

Inside Access, Outsized Impact ≫ Members of the Curator’s Circle provide essential support for the creative and cultural life of our community and enjoy unique access to all that BAMPFA has to offer.

  • Unlimited free gallery admission
  • A year-round pass to all film screenings for each cardholder
  • Concierge service for tickets to all film screenings, talks, and special programs
  • Ten gallery and ten film passes to share with family and friends
  • Four annual Curator’s Circle Exhibition Previews, featuring a curator-led tour and lunch at BAMPFA
  • Four Member Morning Tours
  • Four Film Season Previews
  • Opportunities to attend select MATRIX and Film Council events
  • One complimentary BAMPFA exhibition catalog per year
  • Subscription to the Program Guide
  • 10% savings at the BAMPFA Store
  • Complimentary membership in the MARP, NARM, and ROAM museum networks (see full list)


$2,500 Benefactor
(Two cardholders; $2,038 tax deductible)

All Curator's Circle benefits, plus:

  • Invitations to exclusive Curator’s Circle Film-to-Table dinners and festive receptions with guest speakers and featured filmmakers
  • Complimentary catalogs of all exhibitions


$5,000 Advocate
(Two cardholders; $4,538 tax deductible)

All Benefactor's benefits, plus:

  • Invitations to exclusive receptions and tours of private homes and collections



For deeper levels of giving and engagement with BAMPFA, please consider the Film Council or the MATRIX Council, or contact Alexis Gordon, Individual Giving Officer, at alexisgordon@berkeley.edu.