The World's Longest Native American Painting

Picture of the Day for 10/24/2014. After the speech therapy conference ended for the day, my sister Robynne and I made our way to Old Town Albuquerque. The very first place we walked into was an art gallery called Studio 13. It turns out the co-owner is painting the world's longest Native American painting on a single piece of canvas. The other co-owner, a Frenchman named Jerome Dupont, was there and explained how it will be about 100 feet long when completed, it will feature women from every tribe, and how the Smithsonian sponsored a section of the painting. This is just about 0.0000000017% of the information he imparted to us. At first, his rapid-fire delivery was a little overwhelming, but we were quickly won over by his passion for Native American culture and his encyclopedic knowledge of it. We spent a very happy hour there chatting with him. 

Robynne and I both ended up buying a signed print of the section of the painting that features both a Choctaw woman (our heritage) and Navajo women (Robynne's son Rob is serving an LDS mission on the Navajo reservation). We commented afterward about what a happy accident that whole experience was. So fun and so unexpected!