communites and art ... it's a big deal (29 January 2016)

FDR said,

the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.

it's understandable that they usually leave the last bit off ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated the New Deal - infrastructure and community projects to help Americans get back to work during the Depression.

Part of the New Deal was the Public Works Arts Project -

"in the first four months of 1934 hired 3,749 artists and produced 15,663 paintings, murals, prints, crafts and sculptures for government buildings around the country."

-  Art of the New Deal (Smithsonian Magazine)

The Centre-Fuge Public Art Project has again transformed a once-abandoned trailer into one of the East Village’s most enticing visual works. - See more at: http://streetartnyc.org/blog/2012/07/24/centre-fuge-public-art-project-cycle-4-with-sheryo-the-yok-lexi-bella-deps1-never-beau-adam-kidder-the-muffin-man-zera/#sthash.X49puT48.dpuf

The Centre-Fuge Public Art Project has again transformed a once-abandoned trailer into one of the East Village’s most enticing visual works. - See more at: http://streetartnyc.org/blog/2012/07/24/centre-fuge-public-art-project-cycle-4-with-sheryo-the-yok-lexi-bella-deps1-never-beau-adam-kidder-the-muffin-man-zera/#sthash.X49puT48.dpuf

The Centre-Fuge Public Art Project has again transformed a once-abandoned trailer into one of the East Village’s most enticing visual works. - See more at: http://streetartnyc.org/blog/2012/07/24/centre-fuge-public-art-project-cycle-4-with-sheryo-the-yok-lexi-bella-deps1-never-beau-adam-kidder-the-muffin-man-zera/#sthash.X49puT48.dpuf

Michigan artist Alfred Castagne sketching Works Progress Administration (WPA) construction workers, May 19, 1939.

Orange harvesters in Coit Tower mural show the pro-work theme that underlay most New Deal murals

East Village, NY project

Photographers went out to document life in Depression America, as part of the Farm Security Administration, part of the New Deal

The Centre-Fuge Public Art Project has again transformed a once-abandoned trailer into one of the East Village’s most enticing visual works. - See more at: http://streetartnyc.org/blog/2012/07/24/centre-fuge-public-art-project-cycle-4-with-sheryo-the-yok-lexi-bella-deps1-never-beau-adam-kidder-the-muffin-man-zera/#sthash.X49puT48.dpuf

The Centre-Fuge Public Art Project has again transformed a once-abandoned trailer into one of the East Village’s most enticing visual works. - See more at: http://streetartnyc.org/blog/2012/07/24/centre-fuge-public-art-project-cycle-4-with-sheryo-the-yok-lexi-bella-deps1-never-beau-adam-kidder-the-muffin-man-zera/#sthash.X49puT48.dpuf

Centre-Fuge Public Art Project — Cycle 4 with Sheryo & the Yok, Lexi Bella, Deps1, Never, Beau, Adam Kidder, the Muffin Man & Zera

July 24, 2012

The Centre-Fuge Public Art Project has again transformed a once-abandoned trailer into one of the East Village’s most enticing visual works.

- See more at: http://streetartnyc.org/blog/2012/07/24/centre-fuge-public-art-project-cycle-4-with-sheryo-the-yok-lexi-bella-deps1-never-beau-adam-kidder-the-muffin-man-zera/#sthash.X49puT48.dpuf

Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama. 1936, Walker Evans

Migrant Mother, California, 1936, Dorothea Lange