Thus was born the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), which in roughly the first four months of 1934 hired 3,749 artists and produced 15,663 paintings, murals, prints, crafts and sculptures for ...

The biggest New Deal art program was the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project. Artists could earn up to $42 a week, as long as they produced something.

Elaine Rothman was 9 when her uncle Harry Gottlieb, an artist, visited Duluth with his family on their way back to New York from Mexico. “I remember him opening up this portfolio case and tak… ...

That same idea applies to the history center’s newest exhibit, “1934: A New Deal for Artists,” which features 50 works on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The four Minnesota artists ...

That program was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which inspired Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal plan. The first 250 prints will be released tomorrow, August 31, at the ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday unveiled a new art series for her district in the Bronx and Queens highlighting her Green New Deal proposal. “These posters push us to imagine ...

Some of the art became famous -- such as the murals painted in post offices and other public buildings across the country -- but in the 80 years since the New Deal art programs began, many of the ...

As the first of the New Deal acts that funded public art projects with federal money, the PWAP produced more than 15,000 works of art in just six months. Skip to main content.