![The old McKinley County Courthouse is a New Deal project and houses a large portion of Gallup’s WPA art collection. Photo Credit: www.gallupARTS.org](/images/resized/images/news/2016/148_feb02/21_100_100.jpg)
gallupARTS received a $30,000 Digital Projects for the Public “Discovery” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This grant will fund the planning of a virtual art exhibit featuring Gallup’s collection of 90+ New Deal/Works Progress Administration (WPA) artworks, one of the largest such collections in the State.
Currently, Gallup’s collection of WPA architecture, Spanish Colonial-style tinwork, oak furniture, murals, prints, western American paintings, Native art and contributions to the Index of American Design, is housed in four different locations, which are not all open to the public.
Through a multi-faceted, interpretive website, gallupARTS hopes to restore...