In the throes of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created new government agencies to put people to work, including the Works Progress Administration. One of the most famous parts of the WPA was the Federal Art Project, which commissioned over 200,000 works of art from some 10,000 artists.
WUGA’s Cathy Bradberry reports on an exhibit of WPA art at the Georgia Museum of Art, which inspired her to investigate how public art and its role in the community have changed over time.
