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WPA and Federal Arts Project.
The Works Progress Administration [WPA] under the Federal Arts Project, officially established in 1935 by the United States government, employed out-of-work artists in many capacities.
WPA Federal Arts Project
Created to help provide economic relief to artists during the Great Depression, and to bolster public spirit by providing new, timely, works of art ...
Collectively known as the Federal Arts Projects, the programmes dealt separately with music, theatre, writing, and visual arts.
He had a long career in printmaking, first participating in the Federal Arts Project, which encouraged the development of the art in the United States during the Great Depression, and then teaching at Howard University in Washington, DC, ...
 See also: Painting, Expressionist, Classic, Roman, Movement
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