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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Works Progress Administration"”.
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Works of Art, Arts for Work: Caroline Wogan Durieux, the Works Progress Administration, and the U.S. State Department
… historians begun to explore the impact of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) on American culture by studying its smaller programs such as the Federal Writer's, Theatre, and Art Projects. This paper explores the life of Caroline Wogan Durieux, a New Orleans artist, WPA Federal Art Project …
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"Much Depends on Local Customs:"The WPA's New Deal for New Orleans, 1935-1940
The Works Progress Administration came to New Orleans in 1935, a time of economic uncertainty and even fear. The implementation of the relief embodied in the WPA was influenced by local factors that reinforced the existing social order at first but that left a framework through which that order …
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Eager and Hungry for Music: The WPA Music Project in New Orleans, 1935-1943
… Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in an attempt to put the nation back to work through governmentsponsored work projects. One division of the WPA was Federal Music Project (FMP). A great deal has been written about the WPA, but the Music Project …
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Federally funded art in the United States: Government actions in response to controversy
… federal agencies: the Federal One Program of the Works Progress Administration (1935- 1943) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1965- present). Another example is presented from the General Service Administration’s (GSA) Art-in-Architecture program. The intention of this study is to present …
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Collaborative Legacy of the First Ceramics Laboratories at the Penn Museum: The WPA and Beyond
… laboratories, a joint effort between the Works Progress Administration and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (now called the Penn Museum), which employed federally funded workers and the burgeoning methods of ceramic technological analysis to reveal more information …
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“AMERICANS ALL?” – MESSAGES IN MINIATURE
A small white-collar project of the Works Progress Administration project called the Museum Extension Project (MEP) operated in the latter half of the 1930s in at least twenty-four states including Indiana. A product of this visual aid program was the twelve-inch miniature figure dressed in …
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The Influence of the Mexican Muralists in the United States. From the New Deal to the Abstract Expressionism
… program for the arts (The New Deal, Works Progress Administration). During the 1930s, sociological factors caused that not only the art, but also the political ideologies of the Mexican artists to spread across the United States. The Depression provided the environment for a public …
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A history of FERA and WPA workers' education, the Indiana experience 1933-1943
… perspective. When the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) created its adult education program in 1933, workers' education classes were included. Between 1933 and 1943 thirty-six states participated in the federal experiment in workers' education. Seventeen of these states, including …
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"Training the Young Idea How to Shoot" : Teaching in Barnes County, the First Thirty Years, 1879-1909
… school records, manuscript collections, and the Works Progress Administration oral history project. Additional information came from state and territorial records, newspapers, Valley City Normal School catalogues and reports, journal articles, and books.</p><p>This thesis chronicles teaching and …