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Federal Art Project (FAP) was founded in 1935 to offer work assistance for artists in different media with varying levels of experience. Holger Cahill, a curator and folk art professional, was chosen as the program's director. Similar to other Federal cultural projects of that time, the program aimed to bring artists and art into the daily lives of communities all through the U.S. via community exhibitions, classes, and art centers (LOC, n.d.).
In the U.S., FAP existed in the forty-eight states. Its main outreach program was in art education for kids. The Federal Art Project maintained not less than 100 community centers across the country, managed art programs, and also conducted art exhibitions for the works generated by both kids and grownups. There was the production of numerous prints, posters, paintings, sculptures, and murals under this program, which were in turn given to libraries, galleries, schools as well as other institutions. These programs generated admiration and a new awareness for the American art and even offered jobs for the poor artists. The Second World War brought its end as efforts became concentrated on the war (Wilkinson, 2011).
FAP had two objectives: (1) To offer artworks for non-federal public buildings and (2) To offer jobs for the unemployed artists on relief rolls (Wilkinson,...
The WPA/FAP recruited the majority of its artists from relief rolls, while sustaining a tiny number of non-belief artists for the supervisory posts.
Main Ideas of Federal Art Project
Under the guidance of Holger Cahill, FAP operated in all the forty-eight states and instituted divisions for easel murals, drawings, paintings, posters, and sculptures.
The FPA division of the WPA favored figurative art instead of abstract art; a tendency which led most of the century's greatest abstract painters to create rather uncharacteristic art.
One of the greatest outreach programs of the FAP was composed of about 100 community art centers, which offered art classes for kids as well as developing artists.
Combined, these programs developed admiration and a new awareness for the American visual arts (Wolf, 2013).
Origin and Role of the WPA and Federal Art Project in Creating a Strong Community in U.S.
The U.S. stayed at the center of a worldwide economic depression during the mid-1930s. In an attempt to offer economic relief to citizens, specifically artists that were finding it hard to get jobs, President Roosevelt came up with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), created under Federal Project One. A number of months later,…
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Wilkinson, J. (2011). The WPA Federal Art Project . Retrieved March 30, 2016
Wolf, J. (2013). Federal Art Project of the Works Progess Administration WPA. Retrieved March 30, 2016
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