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The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects.
In 1935, the City of Elmira signed an application to the WPA for the Newtown Creek flood control project. The estimated $165,000 project had been tentatively approved by the WPA district director ...
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]
Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...
The WPA project was referred to as the FAP, and was in effect from August 1935 to July 1943. [2] The objective of this program was to put financially needy artists to work in jobs matching their talents. Unlike other federally funded arts programs, the artist had to be certified for relief by the Welfare Department.
The Section supervised the creative output of TRAP, and selected a master artist for each project. Assistants were then chosen by the artist from the rolls of the WPA Federal Art Project. [5]: 62–63 As chief of the Treasury Relief Art Project, Dows was responsible for maintaining financial records for relief and non-relief personnel.
For the second year, stonework built in the 1930s through the Works Progress Administration is unearthed at Mishawaka's Eberhart-Petro Golf Course.