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Thursday, February 29, 2024. 5pm-6pm PT
“A New Deal for Quilts” ([link removed])
with Janneken Smucker

“Whether in our collective romanticized memory, covering our bodies as we sleep, or handing on museum gallery walls, quilts are potent objects, and the US government harnessed that power to relieve the impact of the Great Depression.”
— Janneken Smucker

A New Deal for Quilts ([link removed]) (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) explores the ways quilts became a powerful form of communication in government relief and public relations efforts and as expressions of quilt makers hopes for better times. Author Janneken Smucker, herself a 5th generation quilt maker, is professor of History at West Chester University in Philadelphia, specializing in digital and public history and material culture. FREE. REGISTER ([link removed])

Tuesday, March 26, 2023, 5pm-6pm PT
"Folk Music and the New Deal: Collecting the Hidden Soundtracks of the Great Depression” ([link removed])
With Sheryl Kaskowitz and Catherine Hiebert Kerst
Most people are familiar with the New Deal's legacy in the visual arts, but the soundtracks left by its folk music collecting activities have remained largely unknown. Through the Music Unit hidden within the Resettlement Administration and the WPA's California Folk Music Project, pioneering collector Sidney Robertson Cowell amassed hundreds of recordings, providing new insights into multicultural America.

Music scholar Sheryl Kaskowitz is author of the forthcoming A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time ([link removed]) , (Pegasus Books, April 2024) the story of the Resettlement Administration's Music Unit, a little-known program that had a lasting impact on American culture. Catherine Hiebert Kerst, former archivist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, is author of the forthcoming book, California Gold, Sidney Robertson and the WPA California Folk Music Project ([link removed]) (UC Press, April 2024) FREE. REGISTER ([link removed])

[link removed] April 16, 2024, 5pm-6pm PT
“Ranger of the Lost Art” ([link removed])
with Doug Leen

While a seasonal ranger at Grand Teton National Park, Doug Leen salvaged a New Deal-era park poster destined for the burn pile. It led him on a decades-long quest to find and preserve the original thirteen WPA park poster designs and spurred the creation of Ranger Doug Enterprises. Learn about Doug’s new book, Rediscovering the WPA Posters of Our National Parks ([link removed]) . FREE. REGISTER ([link removed])
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