A New Deal for Tse Tsan: Pablita Velarde at Bandelier May 8, 2007

This exhibit features the paintings of Pablita Velarde of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Her paintings are significant because they express the woman's point of view of Pueblo life and she chose themes that express the interests and concerns of women, a subject that was of little interest to other Pueblo artists and non-Indian observers. At the young age of nineteen Velarde was commissioned by the National Park Service to create scenes of traditional Pueblo culture for the visitor center being built at Bandelier National Monument. She produced over 84 paintings in casein on Masonite, matte board and glass between 1939 and 1945. This exhibition features sixty-eight of these paintings.