Last spring, Michael Shefcik was watching an episode of “Antiques Roadshow,” the PBS series where hopeful owners of mystery art and antiques consult experts on whether it’s treasure or trash. The ...

CANTON—Spoon River College art teacher Jamie Kotewa and art students Destiny Evans, Rachel Hickle, Keeara Virag, and Justice Westlake recently viewed the Works Project Administration (WPA) art exhibit ...

A former park ranger has been searching for decades for an original copy of a historic WPA poster for Great Smoky Mountains ...

Federal travel posters designed in the Depression-era pop up as the 18th-century building gears up for big anniversaries. "Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters," at Carpenters' Hall celebrates ...

Ranger of the Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks explores the creation, disappearance, and rediscovery of 14 historic prints created for the National Park Service by the ...

FLINT, Mich., Nov 12, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- It isn't quite "National Treasure," but Kettering University in Flint, Mich., has discovered it owns treasure trove of WPA-sponsored artworks. "WPA -- Art ...

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide election. With unemployment rising, investment banks collapsing and the stock market plummeting (sound familiar?), he promised a ...

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The public’s common fantasy of museum curators is of a man with determined eyes hidden beneath a wide-brimmed, battered felt hat crawling through a cave in search of Egyptian artifacts stolen by the ...

The WPA Art Project pointed proudly last week at one of the few first-rate talents it has dug up: shy, 36-year-old, Moscow-born Muralist Anton Refregier, who won one of the biggest awards ever offered ...