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Milwaukee Handicraft Monday

There’s something creepily COVID about this relief print on paper from the Milwaukee Handicraft Project of the late 30s/early 40s. Luckily, we’re still working from home and keeping our distance, and we can do so by accessing Special Collections’ and the libraries’ digital collections!

This print is from our digital collection “Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA,” digitized from the original in “Surface Patterns,″ volume 5A of Applied Design; Blockprinted Textiles. An Educational Service Prepared by the Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project.

View our other Milwaukee Handicraft Project posts.

The MHP was founded in 1935 by Harriet Clinton, head of the Women’s Division of Wisconsin’s WPA to help unskilled women laborers provide income for their families. Clinton hired Elsa Ulbricht, an art professor at the Milwaukee State Teacher’s College (one of UWM’s predecessor institutions), to direct the project. The MHP hired around 5,000 people in total throughout its highly successful seven-year existence. Read More about the Project.

The Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA digital collection was made possible with generous financial support from The Chipstone Foundation.

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