A New Deal for Native Art Webinar March 2022

This is a Webinar presented by our friends of the Living New Deal

Dr. Jennifer McLerran, author of A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933–1943 and A New Deal for Navajo Weaving—Reform and Revival of Dine Textiles, to be published in May. The New Deal promoted indigenous arts and crafts as a means of bootstrapping Native American artists. But New Deal administrators' romanticization of indigenous arts predisposed them to favor traditional over contemporary artistic expression.

Check out other webinars from our friends of the Living New Deal https://livingnewdeal.org/webinars/