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.

Art Of The New Deal: How Artists Helped Redefine America During The Depression When the Roosevelt administration rolled out millions of dollars to fund artists, musicians, writers and actors, it ...

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 ...

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… ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., received another round of Twitter backlash on Friday after debuting a new effort to push her massive environmental proposal known as the "Green New Deal" (GND).

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.