TITLE: Work promotes confidence
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Poster for Works Progress Administration encouraging laborers to gain confidence from their work, showing stylized man holding hammer.
MEDIUM: 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [New York] : Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1941]
For me personally, it’s been slow work to let go of the fantasy of being an international artist. It’s been far more viable to think about expanding the definition of being a local artist.
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Art Work is a newspaper and accompanying website that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is also available by mail order from Half Letter Press for the cost of postage.
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Major support for SPACES is provided by The Cleveland Foundation; Cuyahoga Arts and Culture; The George Gund Foundation; Donna and Stewart Kohl; Kulas Foundation; Toby Devan Lewis; National Endowment for the Arts; Nimoy Foundation; and the Ohio Arts Council.
Art Work is partly funded by Lauren Rich Fine & Gary Giller and the John P. Murphy Foundation.
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