Saving a Generation; New Deal Art Projects
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Dr Ann Prentice Wagner, of APW Curating and Director, Bradbury Art Museum, will tell us the story of the federal projects that saw American arts and art lovers through the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration rushed to create projects to restore the failing economy and provide paying work to save millions of unemployed Americans and their families from starvation. An experimental program, the Public Works of Art Project, began in 1933 and was a success from coast to coast. Dr Wagner will illustrate some of the most outstanding murals, paintings, sculptures, prints and craft works created through the New Deal arts programs.
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Institution or Organization name - American Decorative Arts Forum
