Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This autumn there is no fresher news in the world of art than the mushrooming of these Community Art Centres. Among the least publicized concerns of the Federal Art Project, they are fast becoming its most cherished offspring. Located mainly in cities where no art museums or schools previously existed, they have had an attendance so far of about 4,000,000 people-almost equal to the combined two years' attendance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and Chicago's Art Institute. They are designed to be, and promise to be, permanent; for they belong...
Executive. Nobody asked or expected the Federal Art Project to do more than keep unemployed artists at presentable work. It has successfully done more than this because it is directed by an energetic, ruddy little man who knows the history of American art more intimately than anyone else and who uses refined horse sense in his designs on the country and its people...
Director Cahill and advisers were untroubled by this expected criticism, because in the first month of the project they had laid down a long-range program. The Project's personnel, they decided, was to be drawn from relief rolls in four classes: professional, skilled, intermediate and unskilled. As by their works they became better known, skilled men were employed in research, teaching and craft work, intermediates formed an apprentice class for training, and unskilled personnel came in handy in various ways...
Last fortnight Nova Scotia's Premier Angus Macdonald, a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University, spoke at the opening of a cooperative housing project at a new town, Tompkinsville, named for Father Tompkins. When Father Jimmy rose to speak at the University conference, his audience roared applause. Two days later, an outsider, Political Economist Harold Adams Innis of the University of Toronto, told the conference: "You have reached the dangerous stage in which all men think well of you." Less gallant was the University's Peter Nearing's plea for group medical care: "Our women are . . . puny...
...little Spanish town of Yerba Buena in California had not changed its name to San Francisco (St. Francis) in 1847, it might forever have lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...