Palace Avenue First Friday Art Walk-FREE ADMISSION 5-7PM

Join us for the Palace Avenue First Friday Art Walk to view the newly installed exhibit, "Gas Baths and the Bracero Program in New Mexico and Beyond," an award-winning exhibit created by Moriarty High School students Hannah Davis and Elena Dominguez, that explores the intersection of public health, labor, and immigration in 20th-century New Mexico. Created for the 2025 New Mexico National History Day competition, the exhibit uses interpretive panels and a timeline constructed from glass bottles to tell the story of gas baths used to delouse braceros and other Mexican migrant workers, connecting it to the broader history of the US Government-sponsored Bracero Program. Student researcher Elena Dominguez discovered a personal connection to the topic when she learned her grandfather was a bracero.

Free Admission 5-7PM

Image credit: Bracero crew, 1961. Ernest Lowe Photography Collection, UC Merced. Calisphere.