Seventy-five years ago, in the midst of the Great Depression, America was gripped by staggering unemployment, farm drought, and a floundering manufacturing industry. In response, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the New Deal—a massive federal relief and reform effort—in 1933. Of the millions of Americans employed by New Deal programs, thousands were artists.

The exhibition Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power is the first to bring together selections from all five of Shambroom's most important–and highly acclaimed–series to date: Factories (1986-1988), Offices (1989-1990), Nuclear Weapons (1992-2001), Meetings (1999-2003), and Security (2004-current).

This exhibition, the second in the Changing Hands series organized by the Museum of Arts & Design, New York, features approximately 150 works of art by more than 130 artists from areas west of the Mississippi including the Plains, Plateau, West Coast, Western Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii.