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Gallery Talk: Creating Communities: Resilience, Resourcefulness, and Folk Art in Spaces of Detention
Lectures and Talks Featured Event

Gallery Talk: Creating Communities: Resilience, Resourcefulness, and Folk Art in Spaces of Detention

June 1, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Free Admission for New Mexico Residents

Join us for a facilitated conversation with Patricia M. Perea, Ph.D., Director of Education & Outreach, Museum of International Folk Art, Ariel Prado, Director of Civic Engagement, Innovation Law Lab and Zoe Bowman, Immigration Attorney with Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, in conjunction with the Between the Lines: Prison Art and Advocacy exhibition as we discuss works of art created by incarcerated communities. The exhibit will be on view through September 2, 2025.

ASL Interpretation will be provided.

Major support of this exhibition provided by Cielo Foundation Boulder, Elaine and Harvey Daniels, Friends of Folk Art, Frost Foundation, and the International Folk Art Foundation, with additional generous support provide by Rosalind Doherty, Jay Ihrig, Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn, Courtney and Scott Taylor, ToKo Santa Fe, Lewis & Dilworth Family Fund and the Museum of New Mexico Exhibition Development Fund. 

Photo: Wall hanging (detention center) “Everywhere every man has the right to be recognized as a human being before the law.” Artist unrecorded, 1978, Santiago, Chile. Cotton tocuyo (sacking material), wool synthetic fibers, wood. Museum of International Folk Art, Gift of Louise Durston, A.1979.2.17

~This quote, stitched in the arpillera (fabric collage), references the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

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