Museum of International Folk Art | December 2025

Join us for the opening of Truths Be Told: Artists Activate Traditions on Friday, December 5. The exhibition features 15 international artists who use folk art to spark dialogue, inspire revitalization and imagine a better future. Enjoy music by DJ Pablo Ancona, host of Somos Son on KSFR, and refreshments from Walter Burke Catering in the atrium. Celebrate the opening of this powerful exhibition before it opens to the public. The Lynn Godfrey Brown Museum Shop will also be open.

Exhibition Overview

Truths Be Told: Artists Activate Traditions highlights a dozen international artists who engage with folk traditions from their respective communities in order to critique social inequities, reverse erasure, and be a catalyst for social change. By pushing the boundaries of longstanding ceramic, basketry and textile practices, regalia, or song, these artists propose more complex narratives of how traditions empower communities. Truths Be Told invites us to consider how traditions can function productively as agents of debate, awakening, change, cultural revitalization and imagining a better future.

We are grateful to the following lead donors, including those to the Museum of New Mexico Exhibition Development Fund, who helped make this exhibition and the related programming possible: Friends of Folk Art; Gallery Wendi Norris; International Folk Art Foundation; Elaine and Ken Cole; Maria and Ed Gale, Gale Family Foundation; Susan Steinhauser, The Greenberg Foundation; and Courtney and Scott Taylor.

Support MOIFA

Your generosity helps MOIFA serve diverse audiences statewide. To learn more about giving opportunities, contact Laura Sullivan at laura@museumfoundation.org or 505.216.0829. Thank you for helping MOIFA connect people and communities through the power of folk art.