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Past Events 2009
State: New York
Town: New York
Location: Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College
Title of the Event: Working Through the Great Depression
Date of Event: February 9 - June 9, 2009
Contact Name: Amy Winter, Director
Contact info: 718-997-4747,
www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach
Type of event: An exhibition of prints from the New York Regional
Graphics Division of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art
Project in the Godwin-Ternbach Museum Collection.
Past Events 2008
1. Hyde
Park: New major exhibit "Action and Action Now": FDR's First 100 Days.
Go to this link for more details
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/100home.html
2. Hyde Park: Annual conference of the Roosevelt Institution will present their papers on using FDR policies to solve selected problems facing the country today.
3. Fifth Annual
Roosevelt Reading Festival: June 21 sponsored by the Roosevelt
Presidential Library and Museum. It will be held in the Henry Wallace
Visitor and Educational Center and will feature twelve authors delivering
presentations in concurrent sessions with book signings throughout the day.
The authors that will be participating include a NNDPA board member, Gray
Brechin and Executive Director, Kathryn Flynn. along with Anthony J. Badger,
Harry Goldsmith, Linda L. Levin, Amity Shales, Robert Schlesinger, Nick
Taylor, Steve Vogel.
4. East Hampton: The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center –exhibit of Lee Krasner, ND artist, work.
5. Genesee Valley Council on the Arts: Mount Morris, NY CCC park and campus area done by WPA is the site for planned gallery including 200 works of art, 7 murals and 8 cast concrete sculptures. Contact: Kathryn@gvcaonline.org
6. Woodstock Art Center: exhibit planned
7. New York City: An FDR Memorial-- Plans are underway to create a stone edifice designed by fame architect Louis Khan who drew up the original plans some years ago. It will be constructed at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island to finally honor the city’s native son.
8.
Elderhostel presents A Day of Discovery: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic
Garden and Art of the Works Progress Administration
Accompanied by docents,
scholars and museum staff, view the long-lost Williamsburg Murals, a set of
five monumental works from the late 1930s and considered among the first and
most important abstract wall paintings in the United States. A narrated
exploration features other WPA paintings and sculptures from the museum’s
world-renowned American collections. Discussions with educators illuminate
WPA art, comparing it to other artistic practices and cultural ideas of the
era.
Moving to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, examine six busts of naturalists and botanists sculpted by WPA artists and learn about their subjects. Visit the library of the recently landmarked McKim, Mead and White administration building, see the artist’s watercolor design for the main rotunda ceiling and conclude with a walk through the garden focusing on WPA landscaping and structures that still enhance this most beautiful preserve.
Program will be give four times: September 18, 24; October 15, 17.
For more information, please call (877) 426-8056, or visit online at www.elderhostel.org.
State:
New York
Town: New York
Location: Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College
Title of the Event: "Barach Obama's New Deal: The Future of Federal
Art Patronage in Hard Times"
Date of Event: Tuesday, February 24 at 6 p.m.
Contact Name: Francis V. O'Connor, Ph.D.
Contact info: 718-997-4747 or
FVOC@aol.com
Type of event: Dr. Francis V. O'Connor is the author of three major
publications on the New Deal art projects, was a consultant to the New York
division of the Federal CETA art program in the late 1970s, and between 1974
and 1983 edited Federal Art Patronage Notes , a newsletter on government
cultural policy .
State: New York
Town: New York
Location: Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College
Title of the Event: Working Through the Great Depression
Date of Event: February 9 - June 9, 2009
Contact Name: Amy Winter, Director
Contact info: 718-997-4747,
www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach
Type of event: An exhibition of prints from the New York Regional
Graphics Division of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project
in the Godwin-Ternbach Museum Collection.
WPA Projects Westchester, New York 4/19/09 Bethpage State Park Nassau County
New York Times Bethpage Black golf Course
75th FDR Coalition Hyde Park, New York 2008 Chicago Tribune 1936-2008
New Deal---Greenhills 2/9/09 New York Times faces Bulldozer
On Community Service Time Magazine 9/10/07 New York
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