Archive for the 'FAP' Category
When Funding Art Was the Federal Response to Economic Crisis
• October 7, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, bindings, Blue eagle, book art, Christopher DeNoon, curators, donations, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Florida Writers' Project, Folklorists, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Haiti, History Department, library donors, Living Newspaper, Macbeth, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, theatrical producers, WPA
Tags: AMH 3317 America & Movies: The Great Depression in Film and History, Benjamin Messier, Canada Lee, classical music, Claudia Mendoza, FAP, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal funding for the Arts, Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), FMP, folk traditions, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FTP, FWP, Giovanni Bombace, Haiti, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Henri Christophe, John Houseman, Kathleen Dowling, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Nikolai Sokoloff, Orson Welles (1915-1985), Posters for the People: Art of the WPA (2008), Posters of the WPA (1987), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Unemployment, Voodoo Macbeth (Federal Theatre Project), William Sam, Wolfsonian library, WPA
Happy Alaska Day!
• October 18, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, book art, children's books, colonialism, FAP, FDR, Federal One, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Philippines, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "pay streak attractions", Alaska, Alaska Art Project, Alaska drawings (booklet), Alaska Territory, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909: Seattle Washington), Carl R. Saxild, Eskimos, Federal Art Projects, Forestry building, Glaciers, gold rush, gold strikes, human zoos, Igorrotes, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, international expositions, Inuit, Jerome Roth, Midways, Paintings, polar bears, postcards, President Andrew Johnson, prospectors, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Russia, Seattle (Washington), Secretary of State William Henry Steward, totem poles, totems, U.S. Court House (Anchorage), Wilderness (1920), Works Progress Administration
Making Progress, Work: FDR’s Executive Order Creates the Works Progress Administration
• May 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, Christopher DeNoon, donations, FAP, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, Florida International University students, Florida Writers' Project, Francis Xavier Luca, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 100 days in office, FDR, Federal Arts Project, federal courthouses, Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Great Depression, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), infrastructure projects, murals, post office murals, progress, social workers, Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), TERA, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, welfare, welfare state, Works Progress Administration, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Back to Work with the New Deal
• April 14, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in AAA, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, curators, displays, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, WPA
Tags: AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Arsenal of Democracy, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), CPUSA, Duard Marshall (1914-2010), Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Federal funding for the Arts, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mural studies, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, NRA, Public Works Administration (PWA), PWA, Rosita Maria Sosa, shovels, Social Security, Socialism, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), Victor Candell (1903-1977), Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA
OVERT / COVERT: MIAMI DADE COLLEGE STUDENTS USE WOLFSONIAN ART OBJECTS TO DECODE THE ICONOGRAPHY OF LABOR
• April 18, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Aryans, CCC, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Constructivism, curators, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Futurism, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), interns, Italian design, Italy, leftist artists, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA, youth movements
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Amanda E. Caceres, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bill Iverson, Carolina Gutierrez, Cecilia Arellano, Charlie Chaplin, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Diana E. Lopez, Fascist Italy, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Freedom Tower, Giselle Gonzalez, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italian Futurism, Jonathan Sanabria, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Juan D. Rojas, labor, Lea Nickless, Lewis Hine (1874-1940), Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Marta Palao, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Study Centre, Modern Times (film), Museum of Art + Design, National Socialism, Nazi Germany, neo-classicism, New Deal, Overt/Covert (exhibition), Photomontage, propaganda, Russian Constructivism, Savannah Diaz, Soviet Union, student curators, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), work, working class, Yanelis Valdes
VISUAL AND LITERARY ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY’S GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL COLLECTIONS
• September 10, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, American left artists, Artists, Blue eagle, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, persuasive arts, photography, political art, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, WPA
Tags: "Every Man a King" (song), "forgotten man", Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Alfred Landon, Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Breadlines, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Comrade Gulliver: an illustrated account of travel into that strange country the United States of America (1935), Democrats, drought, Dust Bowl, Farm Security Administration (FSA), Federal Arts Project, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Francis Xavier Luca, General Services Administration (GSA), Huey Long (1893-1935), Julie Redwine, Karl Marx Capital in Pictures (1933), Kathy Erickson, mural studies, My First Days in the White House / by Huey Long (1935), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), Old King Dole, Peter Clericuzio, political campaign literature, presidential contenders, Professor Carmela McIntire, Republicans, Resettlement Administration (RA), Share the Wealth, Sharecroppers, shovel-leaners, shovels, Tenant farmers, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
“MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS”: HARVEST OF SHAME REVISITED FROM A WOLFSONIAN PERSPECTIVE
• May 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, decorative arts, documentaries, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, FTP, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Living Newspaper, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, photography, political art, rare books and special collections library, slums, The Cradle Will Rock, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: Axel Horn, Barbara Burrage, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Edward R. Murrows, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FSA photographers, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Harvest of Shame (documentary 1960), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Julian Levi, Labor unions, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Max Weber, Michael Grabell, Millard Sheets, National Maritime Union, New Deal era, Photography, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), strikes, tenements, The Joads, Theodore G. Haupt, Triple-A Plowed Under, West Coast Longshoremen, William Gropper (1897-1977)
HAPPY 97TH BIRTHDAY, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 24, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Artists, book art, FAP, Federal One, forestry, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, posters, preservation, promotional materials, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American Indian portraits, Arts & Crafts movement, Benjamin Abromowitz (1917-2011), Blackfeet Indians, Buffalo nickel, Conservationists, Deer, Dorothy Waugh, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Empire Builder, Environmental movement, Everglades National Park, Exodusters, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Frederick Law Olmsed Jr, George Biddle (1885-1973), Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Great Plains, Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Harry Herzog, John Muir, John R. Wagner, National Park Service, National Park Service Organic Act, Native Americans in art, New York City Art Project, North American Indians in art, posters, Preservationists, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Sierra Club, Silkscreened posters, the "Dirty Thirties", the Roycrofters, the West, Waterfalls, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works on Paper Dept., Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
WHAT’S TWICE AS BAD AS THE GREAT DEPRESSION? THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN THE 1930s
• September 19, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, African American History, American left artists, Aryans, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Florida Writers' Project, FTP, FWP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), Joe Louis, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII, youth movements
Tags: 1930s, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), anti-lynching campaigns, civil rights, Civil Works Administration (CWA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Copperheads, Costian-Wagner Bill, Fair Employment Act, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Great Depression, Hallie Flanagan, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Hugo Gellert, International Labor Defense (ILD), James Ford, Joe Louis, Louis Hines (1874-1940), lynchings, Martin Dies, Max Schmeling, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Negro Rights, New Deal, Public Works Administration (PWA), Race trials, racism, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Sectionalism, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
CIVIL RIGHTS DISPLAY FOR BROWNSVILLE STUDENT VISITORS
• January 21, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Great Depression, Joe Louis, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, programs, propaganda posters, racism, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, veterans, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1919, African American history, African-Americans, Anti-lynching campaign, athletes, Brownsville Middle School, civil rights, civil rights activists, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Federal Arts Project, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Jesse Owens (1913-1980), Joe Louis, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, N.A.A.C.P., race riots, racial stereotypes, recruiting posters, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, W.E.B. Du Bois, Woodrow Wilson
