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	"Art Within Reach": Federal Art Project Community Art Centers
		Art for expression, art for uplift, art for art’s sake, all the reasons, conscious and unconscious, that are given to justify the artist or to make morally acceptable an interest in art only becloud the basic value of art.
		The art classes conducted by the Art Projects reach thousands of people, who, having faced the technical problems involved in painting or sculpture, study original works of art with a new and healthy interest and derive relaxation and pleasure from participation in art studies.
		The works of art, or (for the sake of the comparison) the goods produced by the workers on the projects, are shipped out to institutions that have ordered them, or in the case of work that has not been contracted for, are put on display in a small gallery or showroom.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5100 (2094 words)

	Federal Art Project
		Art also created a strong sense of national identity, which was important to the American people who were recovering from a harsh economic downfall that had destroyed their spirits.
		Art was finally able to touch the average individual and educate the masses.
		In 1936, congressional opposition to the Federal Art Project was rampant.
	www.harwich.edu /depts/history/HHJ/fedart.html (6443 words)

	Congress of American Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stuart Davies worked for the Federal Art Project in the 1930s and became involved in the art politics of the Depression, being elected president of the Artists' Union established to combat discrimination in the distribution of public funds to artists.
		Stuart's mural that is on exhibition in the Federal Art Gallery on 57th St. Is stunning and is one of the most objective abstractions that I have seen.
		In 1930 she studied art at the Stickney School of Art in Pasadena, where she was influenced by her teacher, Lorser Feitelson, whom she later married.
	www.gis.net /~scatt/heller/artists_related.html (2172 words)

	WPA Federal Art Project
		The FAP was a sub unit of the WPA.
		FAP maintained more than 100 community art centers across the nation, managed art programs, and held art exhibitions of works produced by children and adults.
		Federal Art Project (FAP) lists all of Joan van Breemen's pieces in public buildings as "Children at Play." All the unrestored pieces are basically the same color and relief; however, my lack of photographic art ability renders them here according to the color of the available light.
	www.keyshistory.org /artwpa.html (1019 words)

	Federal Art Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Art Project (FAP) was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal WPA Federal One program in the United States.
		Reputed to have created more than 200,000 separate works, FAP artists created posters, murals and paintings; some of which stand among the most significant pieces of public art in the country.
		Willem de Kooning belonged to the project, but had to leave since he was an illegal alien, not a US citizen at that time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Art_Project (322 words)

	Loras College -- Dubuque, IA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Federal Art Project put unemployed artists to work not only creating works of art but also instructing children, the elderly, the blind, and anyone else interested in learning or developing some of the skills of an artist; the free art classes were part of that program.
		This mural, sponsored by the Federal Art Project, can be found today in the dining room of Ellis Island, the famous immigration station in New York Harbor.
		Of all the art produced by the Federal Art Project and intended to decorate public buildings (some of the works were sold into the private art market), American historical themes were by far the most common.
	depts.loras.edu /his/1930art.html (1064 words)

	New Deal Cultural Programs (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Federal One projects involved a far greater degree of national direction than public arts administrators of the post-1960s era have considered appropriate.
		Federal One created opportunities for artists who would have had the greatest difficulties sustaining their work otherwise; and for thousands of people who might never have been able to paint or write or attend live theater themselves.
		Each project was given two months to come up with local sponsors who would pick up 25% of project costs; though it was thought this would lead to the quick death of most activities, even the controversial Federal Writers Project found sponsors for 46 of its 48 projects.
	www.wwcd.org.cob-web.org:8888 /policy/US/newdeal.html (4418 words)

	Art Projects
		American New Deal art was created under the auspices of a variety of different federal programs during a ten-year period between 1933 and 1943.
		The basic premise behind the FAP was that there should be "art for every man." since the New Dealers believed that art should be accessible to everyone.
		The FAP relied heavily on local sponsors who matched federal funds with a portion of the total project cost and provided local support for the arts activities.
	www.newdeallegacy.org /art_projects.html (1499 words)

	ArtLex on New Deal Art
		FAP artists are especially credited with their revival of printmaking, including the development of silkscreen techniques for mass-producing posters.
		None of the New Deal programs succeeded in convincing the representatives of the American people that federal art patronage was such an important activity that it should be considered as a proper function of government, and therefore be continued.
		Not until the arrival of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the flourishing of various public art programs have U.S. government monies funded artists' works, though not to the degree that the New Deal programs did.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/n/newdeal.html (730 words)

	Painting the American Scene: Artists Assess the Federal Art Project
		New Deal arts projects were guided by two novel assumptions: artists were workers and art was cultural labor worthy of government support.
		Whether in the national “New Horizons in American Art” exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art or in the shows circulated in the Federal Art Galleries and Art Centers throughout the country, there can be noted a fresh spirit and positive attack in the work of this great variety of artists.
		Through the painting done on this Project there has begun the development of a tradition which, together with the rest of American art, should lead to a school of painting that in the near future is likely to be the most vital and energetic in the world.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5101 (1988 words)

	Federal Art Project
		The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was the best known of several New Deal programs that provided employment for artists during the Great Depression.
		National director Holger Cahill aimed to foster cultural democracy by erasing the divide between fine and applied art and making art a part of daily life for the public.
		Numerous works remain in schools and other public buildings, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving FAP center in the country, continues to serve the city's African American community.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/442.html (311 words)

	THE W.P.A. ARTISTS PROJECT
		Government funding of the arts community continued until the mid 1940's, when the WPA was disbanded.
		Hundreds of art exhibitions were held as a result of this, some in Federal Art Galleries.
		The general public became exposed to the works of art through the exhibitions, the schools of art and the public institutions that displayed the murals, sculpture and other works.
	www.fineartstrader.com /wpa.htm (951 words)

	WPA Photographs: Art
		Art connoisseur and antique dealer is Dr. Isaac Cline, once a star forecaster for the U.S. Weather Bureau and recognized internationally as an authority on tropical hurricanes.
		Art teachers took their students on tours of the various exhibits and encluraged them to enter their own works of art.
		Scheler was the sculptor of the façade for New Orleans' new Federal building, and recently gave a lecture at the WPA art project headquarters.
	nutrias.org /photos/wpa/wpa07.htm (2381 words)

	Art for the People
		Support for writers and arts professionals was available early in Roosevelt's administration.
		Federal Project Number One was a WPA project consisting of five divisions—the Federal Art Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Historical Records Survey.
		Directed nationally by Holger Cahill and statewide by Adèle Clark, the Federal Art Project flatly sought to develop a greater appreciation for American art through education and the integration of fine arts with practical arts.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whoweare/exhibits/newdeal/art.htm (169 words)

	University of Kentucky Art Museum - COLLECTIONS
		(In addition to the WPA holdings, the Art Museum has acquired a complementary sampling of works by photographers working in the Farm Security Administration.) The Art Museum has supplemented collection holdings with other works of the 1930s and ‘40s, when American printmaking was, in a sense, rediscovered.
		One division of the W.P.A. was the Federal Art Project (F.A.P.), which employed painters and muralists, printmakers and sculptors, teachers and models.
		They were free to choose their own subjects, except for commissioned works, such as the many mural projects that decorated post offices, schools, libraries, hospitals, airports and other public facilities across the country.
	www.uky.edu /ArtMuseum/collections_WPA_prints.html (506 words)

	Federal Art Project - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Federal Reserve site developer has had a long, colorful career; Art Petrie is known for developing undervalued properties.
		Something is rotten in Winnipeg.(federal aid to dubious art projects)
		Discipline before discipline-based art education: federal support, curricular models, and the 1965 Penn State Seminar in Art Education.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-f1eda1p1.html (239 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection: Posters For The People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The FAP was a branch of the Works Progress Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's massive work-relief effort.
		In its peak years, 1936 to 1938, the FAP employed 5,000 artists across the country, at a salary of $95 a month.
		They created murals, sculptures and paintings, taught community art classes to millions, and produced 2 million posters from 35,000 designs at a cost of about a dime each.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftstri00.html (249 words)

	Government Wants WPA Art Back
		According Weber, non-Federal repositories in possession of WPA art are being advised that it belongs to the Government.
		She does state, however, that when the whereabouts of WPA art becomes known to the GSA, regardless of whether it's privately or publicly held, the responsible parties are then notified.
		Numberous art galleries and museums mounted shows of WPA art that were both regional and national in scope.
	www.artbusiness.com /wpa.html (1655 words)

	Chicago - The City in Art
		Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America.
		An online database of art objects in the collections of the Chicago Public Schools, including WPA murals, with a brief history of the ongoing mural restoration.
		A virtual art gallery of the WPA and Century of Progress murals that decorate this school, with information about the murals' conservation, as well as links to local and national museums and arts organizations.
	www.artic.edu /aic/students/mural_project/pages/M_booksNlinks.html (872 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Poster, Costume, and Set Design Slide Collection
		The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was established to provide work for unemployed citizens during the Great Depression (1929-39).
		Using then-new silk-screening techniques, the FAP Poster Division created the posters which graced theater lobbies from New York to San Francisco and hundreds of other towns and cities in between.
		In 1974 George Mason University professor Lorraine Brown discovered the Federal Theatre Project Collection in a Library of Congress storage depot and arranged for the collection to come to GMU on temporary loan.
	www.aladin.wrlc.org /gsdl/collect/ftpp/ftpp.shtml (349 words)

	Tate \| Glossary \| Federal Art Project
		The Federal Art Project, administered by the Works Progress Administration, ran from 1935-43 and within a year of the start was employing some 5500 artists, teachers, designers, craftsmen, photographers and researchers.
		Some of the most important works that came out of these projects were murals in public buildings inspired by the example of the Mexican Muralists.
		These programmes gave an enormous boost to art in America, not least by raising the morale of artists and are now considered to have been a crucial factor in the explosion of creativity in American art following the Second World War (see Abstract Expressionism).
	www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=319 (248 words)

	Orion B. Dawson - Supervisor of Ironwork, Federal Art Project
		The Art Project sponsored artists in a variety of mediums and set a precedent for federal support of the arts.
		His work during this period was primarily focused on ironwork projects at the University of Oregon, Oregon State University and Timberline Lodge.
		By presenting a survey of Dawson’s projects for the WPA from 1935 to 1941 the first step of a preservation plan is achieved, that of documenting the resources.
	www.seanet.com /~tdeering/thesis/additional/dawson/index.htm (406 words)

	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| WPA Art Project
		The Work Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the "alphabet agencies" of the New Deal, the broad sweeping social and economic experiment created by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
		Minnesota artists worked on several publicly funded art programs, including the Public Works of Art Project (1933-1934) and the WPA Federal Art Project (1935-1943).
		Haupers was the Minnesota state director of the Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration (1933-1943).
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/07wpa.html (711 words)

	Boston University Art Gallery - Jacob Lawrence: Chronicles of Struggle and Hope Press Release
		Born in 1917, Jacob Lawrence spent his childhood in New York City, attended classes at the WPA Harlem Art Workshop and the American Artists School, and later worked for the Federal Art Project.
		The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) is a non-profit art gallery geared toward an interdisciplinary interpretation of art, and committed to a culturally inclusive viewpoint that expands the boundaries of the museum.
		Exhibitions focus on international, national and regional art developments chiefly in the 20th century; seek to present the cultural and historical context of art, and to acknowledge the artistic contributions of under-recognized sectors of the population.
	www.bu.edu /art/webPages/jacobRelease.html (595 words)

	NGA \| Index of American Design
		The renderings were created under the auspices of the Index of American Design project, one of several Fine Arts Divisions in the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which operated from 1935 to 1942.
		In August 1935, Reeves presented this idea to the national staff of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project in Washington, D.C. A pilot Index of American Design project was begun in New York City after this initial discussion.
		The Index was organized as a nationwide project in December 1935.
	www.nga.gov /collection/iad/index.htm (169 words)

	Federal Art Project — Infoplease.com
		Project SMARTArt: a case study in elementary school media literacy and arts education.
		Defining the arts and cultural universe: lessons from the profiles project.
		Constructions and contestations of the authoritative voice: Native American communities and the Federal Writers' Project, 1935-41.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0913321.html (203 words)

	Racine Art Museum \| About RAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The remaining items in the collection are a combination of 1930s art from the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, which was the museum’s first acquisition, along with works on paper, paintings and sculpture.
		RAM also plays a vital role in arts education through its Wustum Campus, where it offers community outreach programs and studio art workshops taught by nationally known artists working in craft media.
		The Racine Art Museum (RAM) is located in downtown Racine, Wisconsin, a historic community on the shores of Lake Michigan.
	www.ramart.org /07_about/index.php (409 words)

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