#wpa

[ehghtyseven]

baby boyfriends 🫶

[grundoonmgnx]

Charles Turzak, Loop Alley for the WPA, 1939

Color woodcut on cream wove Japan paper, 11 x 8.75 in

[nemfrog]

Precious gems. The book of stones,compiled and written by the Federal writers' project. 1939.

Internet Archive

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Boys sculpting a horse at the Harlem Community Art Center, 1937. The center was organized by the Federal Art Project and lasted from 1937 to 1942. It led to the formation of the Harlem Arts Alliance and became an exemplar for other such centers.

Artists who taught or studied at the center included Augusta Savage, Romare Bearden, William Henry Johnson, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Claude McKay, and Richard Wright.

Photo: Solomon Horn via Alamy

[cronenburger]

A year of good reading ahead

Made for statewide W.P.A. Library Project Illinois

[blondebrainpowered]

Democracy .. a challenge.

WPA poster, 1936

[fandomsandfeminism]

"Spinnin' Windies" Harold E West. Linocut

I dunno if I can even explain why, but I saw this piece at the Blanton's temporary exhibit on WPA funded art, and I'm just enchanted by it.

[artdecodude]

San Francisco Maritime Museum. #SanFrancisco #Calfornia #ArtDeco #WPA #NewDeal 📸:me/02/2025 What blew me away was that the much of the 'squiggly' artwork was by Sargent Claude Johnson since it was not a style of his I was familiar with, but I love it, nonetheless.