Carmen L. Pettersen Foundation

Founded in 2015, Carmen L. Pettersen Foundation is a foundation based in Guatemala City, Guatemala working on arts & culture, heritage.

The Carmen L. Pettersen Foundation is a non-profit foundation established in 2015 in Guatemala. It promotes, studies and conserves the artwork of Carmen L. Pettersen, a 20th-century Guatemalan watercolourist, and other Guatemalan artists. Its work includes the care of the Maya de Guatemala Collection and Pettersen's personal archive and art materials, conservation programmes, the issuing of certificates of authenticity for her works, and the presentation and interpretation of her art within Guatemala and abroad. The Foundation is run with a team of Guatemalan, German, Canadian and North American volunteers, and it welcomes collaboration with museums and universities abroad.