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face=Helvetica><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" size=5>The new New Deal:
Government relief offers lifeline to performing arts
community</FONT></FONT></SPAN></H1>
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size=3 face=Helvetica><FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Bob
Abelman</FONT></FONT></SPAN></H1>
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color=#444444 face=Helvetica>Between 1933 and 1943, during the depths of the
Great Depression and into the early years of World War II, federal tax dollars
employed artists and craft workers of various media and with varying levels of
experience, and kept them from poverty and despair.</FONT></P>
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color=#444444 face=Helvetica>In addition to providing relief, the New Deal’s
Federal Art Project and other government-sponsored art programs promoted
American art and culture by giving more Americans access to what President
Franklin D. Roosevelt decorously labeled “an abundant life.” It enabled
Americans all across the country to see an original painting for the first time,
attend their first professional live theater or dance production, or take their
first music or drawing class. An enormous volume of public art intended for
education and civic engagement – including 2,500 murals and 18,000 sculptures –
was created without restriction to content or subject matter and put on
display.</FONT></P>
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color=#444444 face=Helvetica>“Artists have been given something more precious
than their daily bread,” said social critic Lewis Mumford at the time. “(They
have received) the knowledge that their work has a destination in the
community.” The public art of the New Deal reflected a vast array of traditions
and cultures that served not only to celebrate the nation’s diversity but to
reflect and build a common, collective national identity through art.</FONT></P>
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color=#444444 face=Helvetica>Never before or since has our government so
extensively supported and sponsored the arts. Until now.</FONT></P>
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