New Deal Arts Programs

The New Deal was a sweeping suite of programs and policies to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s. Several of those programs provided for artists in exchange for their labor producing new art. What kind of art sprouted from this system? How did society benefit from a boom in freely available art and performance? Why hasn't this level of investment continued?

Links!

• WPAmurals.com
• WPA Posters at the Library of Congress
• PBS Crash Course on the FTP
• The Slave Narrative Project on Project Gutenberg

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