Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA

[Octafish]

vimeo.com/133360184

A new documentary on how artists became part of the New Deal.

It'd be good for us to remember today's artists, should we should ever get that New New Deal we've been talking about.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. This link will take a reader to Library of Congress section on the Federal Theater Project 1935-39

In many ways this New Deal program built the foundations of the modern American theater with new works and groundbreaking productions of classics. The Federal Theater Project, Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project and Federal Writer's Project were subsets of Federal Project One. Imagine such a thing.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/ftp.html

This link will show a poster for 'One Third of a Nation-A Living Newspaper About Housing' a Federal Theater Production, NYC 1939. Many such posters and materials and scripts are online to see.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g02090/?co=wpapos

[Octafish]

2. Thank you!

That is a truly fascinating history. I will share with my real life performing arts chums.

Can you imagine the good things that could be created if the artists were valued for their art and not their ability to hold down three part-time jobs? Change the nation, if not the planet.

[tk2kewl]

3. Kick