Santa Fe: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (505) 982-4636

                  “Through Their Eyes: Painting from the Santa Fe Indian School: Paintings from the Charlotte Mittler Collection. Featured young student artists then later became New Deal artists including Fred Kabotie, Velino Shije Herrera, Alan Houser, Andrew Tsihnahjinnie, Pablita Velarde and Sybil Yazzie.  www.wheelwright.org Exhibit through April 18, 2010.  

Governor’s Gallery, State Capitol, 4^th Floor

FSA Photographers in New Mexico: John Collier, Jack Delano and Russell Lee. This exhibit highlights images of rural New Mexico from the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Farm Security Administration Collection. Closes June 4, 2010.

Youth Conservation Corp Notification

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MORE NEW MEXICO NEW DEAL MAPS

     The New Mexico New Deal Chapter has just received funding from the NM Humanities Council to reprint their three maps of New Deal sites.  They had the maps created for the 75th anniversary of all the New Deal programs last year but have already distributed all of them.  This new funding has made it possible to re-order in greater quantity the three maps which display the northern, central and southern portions of the state.  Three separate maps were determined necessary since there were so many items that had to be included on the maps. One complete map would have ended up being an unreadable conglomeration of dots or symbols. In addition to the new supply of maps which should be out in the coming months, the three maps will be included in the NM Humanities Atlas of New Mexico maps planned for their website.  These colorful maps include the locations of New Deal structures, public art, schools, CCC camps, parks and monuments
For more information about these offerings, contact newdeal@cybermesa.com.
 
 
PRESERVATION OF NEW DEAL ART
 
    Thanks to a recent grant from the Stockman Family Foundation, the NM Chapter will soon be gathering up known New Deal etchings and lithographs that are in need of preservation.  The etchings are by Gene Kloss and lithographs by B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Taos and Santa Fe artists in the state’s WPA/Federal Art Project. Kloss did a series of nine 20” x 26”etchings and Nordfeldt created a series of six 10” x 13” lithographs. They were produced in enough quantities to be distributed to most of the public schools and institutions around the state. Unfortunately many of them are now “missing” despite the chapter’s attempts to locate them around the state.  But thanks to the recent grant, the known artwork is scheduled to be collected and rematted and framed if necessary since all the pieces have backing and matting that have acid in them and after some 70 plus years are ripe for burning through onto the artwork itself.  

    Schools with the known artwork have been notified and agreed to this offering so when returned, the art will be on view again with acid-free materials.  If other public entities are aware of such items and are interested in having this preservation work done on their Kloss and Nordfedlt artwork, they should contact newdeal@cybermesa.com or call to 505.690.5845 or write to NNDPA-NM at P. O. Box 602, Santa Fe, NM 87504. Please send photographs of any of your Kloss or Nordfeldt artwork.

Contact Person: Kathy Flynn

                          (505) 690-5845 or email to newdeal@cybermesa.com

May 31--Sept 6

OLD MILL AND NEW DEAL GROUP FEATURE DOROTHEA LANGE PHOTOS

The Roller Miller in Cleveland/Mora is opening up again this Memorial Day Weekend for its summer events.  It will kick off its offerings with photographs done by Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression provided by the New Mexico Chapter of the National New Deal Preservation Association. (NNDPA-NM).

The photographs feature primarily her work in New Mexico as part of the Farm Security Administration’s photographic project that recorded our nation at that time--1933-43.  Included in the show is different shot of her famous “Migrant Mother” photograph.  She took a number of different images the day she found Florence Thompson, the wife of a migrant worker and seven children.  For more information contact Kathy Flynn at (505) 690-5845 or call the Mill for specific hours at (575) 447-2646.