Build Your Art Collection
Your Art. Your Choices. Your Freedom.
Surround Yourself With Art You Love
Imagine living with a collection of original paintings, drawings, prints, photography, and sculpture—all selected according to your individual taste.
Through the Minnaar Fine Art Library, you can assemble a personal collection of fine art to enjoy in your home, office, or other surroundings, without purchasing the artworks.
Choose one work or several. Enjoy them for as long as you wish, subject to your checkout agreements. Return them or choose something different whenever your interests change.
Discover Art. Enjoy Art. Exchange Art. Experience Freedom.
Build Your Library Collection
Start With One Artwork
Browse the Minnaar Catalogue and discover an available painting, drawing, photograph, sculpture, print, or other artwork that speaks to you.
Each registered Minnaar has its own identity, permanent Catalogue record, Certificate of Authenticity, and assigned Sovereign Value (SV).
1 SV = 1 Troy Ounce of Silver
Check out your selection with a fully refundable deposit in silver or its cash equivalent.
There are no rental or checkout fees.
Add Artworks You Love
You may check out several eligible artworks and assemble a collection that reflects your personal interests.
For example, five available 1 SV artworks would require combined refundable deposits equivalent to five troy ounces of silver.
Your collection may grow as new artworks become available and your interests evolve.
Enjoy Them for as Long as You Wish
Live with the artworks you love.
A painting may transform a room. A sculpture may become a familiar companion. A drawing or photograph may reveal something new each day.
There is no fixed return date, subject to your individual checkout agreements.
Change Your Collection Whenever You Wish
When you're ready for something different, return an artwork and receive your refundable deposit according to your checkout agreement.
You may also select another available artwork under a new checkout agreement, with any required deposit adjustment.
Your art collection can change as your life changes.
Minnaar Treasury — Art for Everyone to Enjoy
The Minnaar Treasury is the permanent fine art collection of the Church of Minnaar, a New Mexico-based unincorporated religious association.
Through the Minnaar Fine Art Library, the church makes eligible artworks available for public appreciation and temporary checkout as part of its religious and educational ministry.
The Library is open to the public, and admission is free.
Church-owned artworks remain church property during Library checkouts. Borrowers enjoy temporary custody and use of the works under their individual checkout agreements.
Your Personal Art Collection
You may also own Minnaars in your own permanent collection, independently of the Library.
Privately owned Minnaars may be kept, displayed, gifted, or exchanged directly with other private owners.
The Minnaar Treasury does not purchase, sell, or conduct ownership-transfer exchanges of these artworks.
A privately owned artwork may retain its permanent Minnaar Catalogue identity and Certificate of Authenticity as it passes from one owner to another.
Whether you own an artwork or enjoy it temporarily through the Library, the beauty and meaning you find in it remain matters of your individual judgment.
Minnaar Money — The Art of Freedom
Minnaar Money is an ongoing conceptual artwork by Steven Minnaar celebrating beauty, individual sovereignty, and peaceful voluntary exchange.
Through the Minnaar Touch, Steven creates and personally selects artworks, assigns Sovereign Value, and establishes their permanent identities in the Minnaar Catalogue.
Underlying the project is a simple belief:
Beauty, desirability, and value are matters of individual judgment.
The Minnaar Fine Art Library brings this philosophy into everyday life by allowing individuals to experience fine art according to their own choices.
The art is the medium. Beauty is the language. The philosophy is the message.
Start Building Your Collection
Your collection begins with discovering something you love.
Browse the Catalogue, explore available artworks, and choose something you would enjoy living with.
Collect Experiences. Discover Beauty. Enjoy the Freedom to Choose.
Forever Art. The Art of Freedom.
Discover What You Love. Enjoy It for as Long as You Wish. Exchange It When You're Ready.