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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] Artists ...
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.
The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December 1933 and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in August 1935. It functioned as the principal meeting-place ...
People of the New Deal arts projects during the Great Depression in the United States: artists, writers, performers (music, dance, theatre), archivists and artisans creating and working for the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934); the Section of Painting and Sculpture; and/or the Work Projects Administration Federal Project Number One programs: the Federal Art Project (1935–1943 ...
Competitions were open to all artists, regardless of economic status, and artists' proposals were reviewed without identifying the name of the artist who had made the submission. [ 3 ] The Section sought entries that reflected local interests and events, and the Section encouraged the artists to think of the communities, not the Section, as the ...
Metro Arts promise to fund larger institutions 'a mistake' A 2023 Metro budget allocation that fell short of the Metro Arts department's goal complicated matters. An audit of Metro Arts' finances ...
Pages in category "Federal Art Project artists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 401 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) was an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues.It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as well as other federal ...