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 ...

During the Great Depression, Meriden artist John Backstrom created 12 landscape paintings a month as part of a federal employment project. He never knew what happened to most of the canvases. Seventy ...

Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is currently hosting "Art For The People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection." The exhibit features works created during the Great Depression of the 1930s ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago, in the midst of the Great Depression, a state-born artist was hired through the federal Works Progress Administration to create artwork at Stout Institute. Clarence “Cal” Peters, ...

A table in a Town Hall meeting room Friday was laden with a visual feast of framed paintings and prints by members of a notable Westport family of artists. The 21 works of art were donated to the ...

“These are five prints from the New Deal Works Project Administration (1935-1943) from the New York area,” wrote Paul Ganger in an email of the items he wanted considered for an appraisal. “These ...

Discover how the Works Progress Administration (WPA) transformed American employment by creating 8.5 million jobs from 1935-1943, leaving a lasting legacy.