DepartmentHispano
Recycled gum-wrappers purse
NamePurse
CultureLatinx/Hispanx
Date2018 - 2020
Place madeCibola County Correctional Center, Milan, New Mexico, United States, North America
MediumPaper, gum wrapper
Dimensions24 × 12 × 5 1/2 in. (60.9601 × 30.4801 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Santa Fe Dreamers Project, A.2020.61.4
Object numberA.2020.61.4
ProvenanceThis group of items is donated by the Santa Fe Dreamers Project for the upcoming exhibition Between the Lines: Prison Art and Advocacy scheduled to open in the museum’s Gallery of Conscience on October 3, 2021.
Purse/Book Bag, made from pink, white and silver gum wrappers. This item was made for the detainee’s Pro Bono attorney’s daughter as a thank you gift. When the daughter heard of the GOC Between the Lines Project the daughter gave the purse to Santa Fe Dreamers to add to the group of items to be donated to MOIFA.
DescriptionPink, white, and silver gum wrappers woven together of make a purse with an envelope closure with two "latches" and a multi-strand strap.This purse was made by an asylum-seeking transgender artist to wear in a prisoner-organized fashion show inside an ICE detention center.
Artist unrecorded
1980s
1980s
Artist unrecorded
