Sentences with phrase «federal works progress»

In 1935, coinciding with reconstruction of the park, the newly created Parks Monuments Crew, with funding from the federal Works Progress Administration, performed extensive repairs and cleaned the monument.

Guccione worked with Mexican social realist painter David Alfaro - Siqueiros on Post Office murals for the federal Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.

[35][36] The Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) helped fund the 1935 fair, which was designed by architect Richard S. Requa.

It is based on 10 years of his work transcribing material from the federal Works Progress Administration and The Lawrence County Press.

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«Making progress on climate change and clean growth is hard and at times slow work, and we can't ignore the fact that Canada is still digging out from a deficit of previous federal inaction.

In 1934, the city's 22 independent park commissions were consolidated into the Chicago Park District, and the new agency soon secured federal funds through the Works Progress Administration.

The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund (LCVAF), the connected federal political action committee (PAC) of the League of Conservation Voters, works to elect candidates who will implement sound environmental laws and policies and to defeat those who stand in the way of progress.

We want to organise the oil - producing LGAs into clusters and work with federal government to help us with the physical planning and gap analysis to evaluate progress of development in the councils,» Obaseki said.

«At a time when our rights are under attack at the federal level, we have in Governor Cuomo a leader who works tirelessly to drive forward progress here in New York.»

The White House issued a statement saying the federal transportation secretary, Anthony Foxx, would work with the two states to determine how the Obama adminnistration could «best support progress on this project.»

Sankara pledged to work for the unity and progress of the party, to win all elections in the state and at the federal level.

These professional societies also assist in identifying capable and visionary astronomers to meet the important challenges of working in short - and long - term positions at the federal agencies, particularly the NSF and NASA, where dedicated staff can have a significant effect on the progress of astronomy.

Now the law remains a work in progress, as states, districts, and a shifting cast of federal officials work furiously to prepare for its full rollout this fall.

A year after the Every Student Succeeds Act became law, it remains a work in progress as states, districts, and a shifting cast of federal officials prepare for ESSA's classroom debut in the 2017 - 18 school year.

After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst - performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no verdict on its effectiveness.

In case that progress turns out to be inadequate, the article will also propose a way for the local, state and federal governments to work together to improve the schools

The Superintendent goes on to say federal education officials have already indicated they're pleased with Indiana's progress and that she plans to work with the Department of Education to explain how Indiana is coming into full compliance with the waiver.

According to Federal Election Committee reports, in addition to his work with the Connecticut Association for Achievement Advocacy, Inc., (ConnAD),, Robert Furek has been a major fundraiser and donor to the campaigns of George W. Bush for President, John McCain for President, Romney for President, Paul Ryan for Congress, Rick Santorum's U.S. senatorial run in 2006 and two extraordinarily controversial political action committees; Progress for America Voter Fund, a primary vehicle for the Koch Brother's assault on America and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

The planning team has worked with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to develop a series of rules to implement performance management requirements established by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21) Act and reaffirmed in the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.

He placed blame at high tuition costs squarely on Federal loan programs and announced a work - in - progress policy to address the increasing problem of student loans.

In contrast, Federal Reserve policy tightening is still a work in progress, and it will likely continue until a recession or crisis dramatically alters the central bank's course.

From 1936 to 1940, he lived in New York and worked in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.

Both Krasner (1908 - 1984) and Lewis (1909 - 1979) embraced abstraction in the 1940s, after early flirtations with Social Realism: They both had been involved in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (and may even have met through that organization), and Lewis had been a member of the Harlem artists» group 306 (which included the socially minded artists Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence.)

In 1933, Arshile Gorky became one of the first artists employed by the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.

She worked in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the New Deal, beginning in 1936 and producing over 30 prints for the WPA.

From 1935 to 1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project gave them, and thousands of other artists nationwide, a living wage to do the work for which they were trained.

Mintz was a registered Illinois artist for the Works Progress Administration WPA Federal Art Project during the 1930s.

He instituted a darkroom, education, and exhibition program at the YMCA, and in 1938 was hired as a «creative photographer» for the Oregon Art Project, a division of the federal government's Works Progress Administration.

His true breakthrough was in the year of 1935 when Willem was chosen to be the official artist of the federal art project for the WPA (Works Progress Administration) that needed him to paint a number of murals and other similar wWorks Progress Administration) that needed him to paint a number of murals and other similar worksworks.

Between 1933 - 39, he completed several government commissioned murals under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Program (PWAP), the Federal Art Project (FAP), and the Works Progress Administration (WAP).

He worked in the graphics division of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project, and in 1939 collaborated with his brother Moses on two murals for the post office in Kinsessing, Pennsylvania.

Philip Guston was a painter and printmaker who began as a social realist painter, associated with the mural movement involving artists such as Diego Rivera and working for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project in New York City during the 1930s.

In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Federal Art Projects, Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) 1923 - 34; Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA / FAP) 1935 - 1940; Military Service WW II 1941 - 1945: US Army Engineering School.

In 1934 Giorgio Cavallon was employed in the Works Progress Administration / Federal Art Project (WPA / FAP) Easel & Mural Division as Arshile Gorky's assistant.

Prior to the war, many of them participated in the Federal Art Project, (WPA) Works Progress Administration, which provided stipends during the depression in the Roosevelt administration.

The Works Progress Administration - Federal Art Project Collection (WPA - FAP) contains approximately 300 paintings, prints, and sculpture from the Great Depression era.

Later, after the war, he shared a studio and a sensibility with Willem de Kooning (both artists had worked together on the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project in the late 1930s).

This campaign - based on the style of social realism championed by Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)- was commissioned by the Federal Arts Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

From 1936 to 1942, Lundeberg was employed by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, for which she produced lithographs, easel paintings, and murals in the Los Angeles area.

As a young artist, he would have an unbeatable opportunity in 1935, when he became an artist for the federal art project for the WPA (Works Progress Administration), through which he created a number of murals and other wWorks Progress Administration), through which he created a number of murals and other worksworks.

Compiled by the Workers of the Federal Writers» Project of the Works Progress Administration in the City of New York.

Because racial discrimination barred African Americans from many opportunities, they often first gained access to printmaking instruction and facilities in art centers sponsored by the Works Progress Administration / Federal Arts Project, which from 1935 to 1943 provided jobs for thousands of unemployed artists.

In 1937, along with Jackson Pollock and Louise Nevelson, he was employed by the Federal Art Project, one of the branches of the Works Progress Administration created during the Great Depression which would operate until 1941.

In the wake of the Great Depression, the United States federal government formed two organizations, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Farm Security Administration (FSA), which employed artists.

Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, he was employed in the late 1930s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Program and was often described as one of the last living African American artists who participated in the WPA.

Swing Landscape [fig. 1][fig. 1] Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape, 1938, oil on canvas, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ezkanazi Museum of Art was the first of two commissions that Stuart Davis received from the Mural Division of the Federal Art Project (FAP), an agency of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to make large - scale paintings for specific sites in New York.

In addition, the Museum is the largest repository of works on paper created under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and possesses over 100 vintage prints by the photographer Berenice Abbott as well as important photographs by Edward Steichen and Edward Weworks on paper created under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and possesses over 100 vintage prints by the photographer Berenice Abbott as well as important photographs by Edward Steichen and Edward WeWorks Progress Administration (WPA), and possesses over 100 vintage prints by the photographer Berenice Abbott as well as important photographs by Edward Steichen and Edward Weston.

In 1934, Cavallon was employed in the Works Progress Administration / Federal Art Project (WPA / FAP) Easel & Mural Division as Arshile Gorky's assistant.

After traveling to Europe in 1925 and 1928, he worked on the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration and began teaching at the Art Students League in 1933.