Thursday, February 24, 2022, 5pm PST “A New Deal for Native Art”
A Living New Deal webinar with Dr. Jennifer McLarren
The New Deal’s efforts to promote Native American art and artists encompassed arts and crafts cooperatives, murals, museum exhibits, and Civilian Conservation Corps projects. But government administrators’ archaic views of indigenous art sometimes worked at cross-purposes with native self-sufficiency. Dr. McLerran taught Native American art history and museum studies at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy,1933–1943 and A New Deal for Navajo Weaving—Reform and Revival of Dine Textiles, to be published in May, 2022. She is a consultant to the Smithsonian on a forthcoming exhibit of Native American textiles. REGISTER
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Thursday, March 17, 5pm PDT “Los Tres Grandes—Mexican Muralists’ Influence on the Artists of the WPA”
With Harold Porcher, Director of Modern & Post-War Art at Swann Auction Galleries in New York. Post-revolution art in Mexico wielded strong influence over American artists. Many who drew inspiration from Mexican muralists went on to work for the WPA’s artist programs. Free. REGISTER
Friday, April 22, 5pm PDT “Art and Intersections: The Harlem Renaissance Meets the New Deal”
Dr. Stephanie Anne Johnson is on the faculty of the Visual and Public Art Department at Cal State, Monterey Bay.
The Harlem Renaissance may be best known for its literary and performing arts, but visual artists were key contributors as well, planting artistic seeds that would germinate for decades. Many participated in the WPA's Federal Art Project (1935–1943), and its key legacy—art centers including the Harlem Community Art Center that nourished the Civil Rights and the Black Arts Movement. Free. REGISTER
Thursday, May 19, 5pm PDT “New Deal Photography Through the Lens of Arthur Rothstein”
At age 20, New York photographer Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985) began documenting the Great Depression. His many images for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) depict stories of struggle that persist today.
Dr. Annie Rothstein Segan, director of the Arthur Rothstein Legacy Project, will discuss her father’s photography for the Farm Security Administration. Free. REGISTER
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