Drawing on years of archival research, oral histories, interviews, and serendipitous discoveries, Tey Mariana Nunn brings to light the largely untold stories of Hispano artists of the New Deal era, helping fill a significant gap in New Mexican, Hispanic and Latino, and American art history. Work that began as a major exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art became a groundbreaking book, Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era, and continues today — in small part through presentations like this Gallup New Deal Art Guest Lecture.
Join Nunn to hear the stories of Hispano artists who created art for New Deal projects in Gallup and meet some newly re-discovered Hispano New Deal artists!
Part scholarship, part detective work, and always a labor of love, Nunn’s work invites audiences to gain a fuller picture of one of the most active and transformative periods of public art in the history of the United States.
