Guest-Curated Tours

See Gallup’s New Deal artworks from the perspectives of artists, historians, writers, and educators. Join a Guest Curator on a short tour of select works from the collection. 

Challenging Boundaries
What is “Indian Art”?Curated by Native Artist Jerry Brown
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Real Eyes - Realize - Real Lies
Southwest History from a Pueblo PerspectiveCurated by Pueblo Historian Teri Fraizer
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A Surprising Iconography
Reading New Deal Paintings as Southwest ScriptureCurated by Multicultural Educator Laura Jijon
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Gallup’s New Deal art collection consists of over 120 objects created, purchased, or donated from 1933 to 1942 through New Deal federal art programs administered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support artists during the Great Depression.

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