Exhibitions

Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience

Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience
Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience

Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience

in the Mark Naylor & Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience
July 6, 2014 - April 3, 2016

The Gallery of Conscience is an experimental space where the public is invited to help shape the content and form of the exhibition through interactive elements and facilitated dialogues.  The gallery changes in response to community input, and is temporarily closed for interim changes. 

An exhibition on immigration that features fiber arts, carving, paintings and works on paper about immigrant journeys and the challenges of transitioning to a new home. Traditional artists from the Americas, Africa and Asia articulate the hopes, fears, and challenges of newcomers in an unfamiliar and sometimes unwelcoming place.  This exhibit is made possible in part by an Art Works award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn, the International Folk Art Alliance, the International Folk Art Foundation, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s Director’s Leadership and Exhibitions Development Funds, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. Our dialogue series is part of the National Dialogues on Immigration Project of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.