{"id":2969,"date":"2024-12-09T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2024-12-09T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:25:01","slug":"federal-art-project-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"Federal Art Project, Part II?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I just read an excellent Saturday Evening Post<\/em> article on the “Federal Art Project,” which was part of Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the Great Depression. Some 7% of the budget for the WPA was allocated to artists across the country to do all sorts of mural projects, and such, in big cities and small towns. Besides helping subsidize “starving artists” (literally) during that time, it gave Americans, across the socio-economic spectrum, access to good art. The most poignant sentence in the article: “Artists painted recognizable subjects — ranging from portraits, to cityscapes, and images of city life, to landscapes and depictions of rural life — that reminded the public of quintessential American values, like hard work, community, and optimism… Our administration would push for a Marshall Plan to rebuild, and rejuvenate, our inner cities, as we would push for downtown revitalization in small towns across America. Creating a similar Federal Art Project, to accentuate this rejuvenation, once again make art accessible to everyone, and give more artists meaningful, creative work, would be an absolutely excellent idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday Evening Post photo I just read an excellent Saturday Evening Post article on the “Federal Art Project,” which was part of Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the Great Depression. Some 7% of the budget for the WPA was …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}