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"The Art of the New Deal" Webinar Series

Friday, April 22, 2022, 5pm PDT
"Art and Intersections”
The Harlem Renaissance Meets the New Deal
With Dr. Stephanie Anne Johnson

The Harlem Renaissance stands as one of the most important art movements in American history. The years 1918-1937 saw an outpouring of music, theatre, literature and visual art from this historical Black neighborhood in Upper Manhattan.
Federal “relief” dollars employed hundreds of Black visual artists, both on public art projects and as instructors at the WPA-funded community art centers that nourished the Harlem arts movement.  

Dr. Johnson is a theatre designer, artist and educator in Berkeley, California. She is a founding faculty member of the Visual and Public Art program at Cal State, Monterey Bay. Free. REGISTER

Thursday, May 19, 5pm PDT
“New Deal Photography Through the Lens of Arthur Rothstein”
After graduating from Columbia University in 1935, Arthur Rothstein became the first photographer hired for the US Resettlement Administration (later, the Farm Security Administration). Between 1935 and 1943 he traveled across the nation recording some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America.
Dr. Annie Rothstein Segan, Co-director of the Arthur Rothstein Legacy Project, will present an illustrated lecture focusing on her father’s work for the New Deal. Free. REGISTER

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