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Teacher orientation (html) to Depression Era Art.
Activities
Teachers can lead students through all or some of the following activities which are available for printout as PDF or HTML files.
- Develop
understanding of themes (html
version) of the WPA/FAP art programs helps students relate the artworks
to a theme, and to their own surroundings and life in discussions and
art production activities.
Understand urban and rural (html version) life in the United States during the Great Depression at the high school level by researching facets of the depression using fiction and non-fiction sources.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to read and print PDF files.
Online Resources
https://www.nara.gov/exhall/newdeal/newdeal.html
basic
information about the New Deal and its programs and impact.
https://ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu/slide-collection/trevey/trevey.html
The Ken
Trevey collection of American Realist Paintings has a section on the Graphics
program of the WPA.
https://www.illinoisart.org/
Illinois Artist Project site written by Joel Dryer previews a 2001 publication,
and includes listing of many Illinois artists.
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Copyright © 2000 Illinois State Museum Society
