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Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 5-6pm PDT

Champions of New Deal art preservation discuss the history, challenges and impacts of preserving America’s public art, beginning with New Deal art advocacy in New York City in the 1970s.

Michele Cohen is founder of New York City’s Public Art for Public Schools (PAPS). PAPS carries on the work of the WPA, supporting art for schools and renovating artworks.

Erika Doss is Distinguished Chair in the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has published widely on 20th and 21st century American art.

Mary Okin is Assistant Director of the Living New Deal and runs its Advocating for New Deal Art (ANDA) initiative.
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"The Index of American Design" ([link removed])
With John Ott and K.L.H. Wells
Tuesday, July 21, 2016, 5-6pm PDT

Made up of 18,257 watercolor works by some 1,000 artists, the Index was one of the most extensive and popular Federal Art Projects of the WPA. Seeking to preserve a national, ancestral aesthetic for the United States, the Index is also a record of American objects before 1900. How did artists make these meticulous drawings and watercolors and what impact did they have on the viewer? How were objects chosen for inclusion in the Index and what types of objects—and what types of Americans—were left out? What does this tell us about the larger politics of the New Deal?

John Ott, Professor of Art History at James Madison University, researches and teaches the art history of the United States, with particular attention to artwork by and portrayals of African Americans, as well as art markets and collecting. He is the author of Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California: Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority (Ashgate, 2014), Muybridge and Mobility, and Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration, 1931–1954. His current book project is Return to Sender: Race and Iconoclashes over New Deal Murals, 1934–present.

K. L. H. Wells is Associate Professor of American Art and Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where her research focuses on the politics of decorative art and design. She is the author of Uncanny Revivals: Designing an American Identity, which explores the aesthetics and White nationalist politics of colonial revivalism in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
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