The WPA also employed artists to create thousands of posters that promoted social ideals of the time as well as federal programs supporting education, culture, health, safety, and tourism.

health programs, protection of the environment, educational programs and often, workplace safety. So do these posters represent the art of work or a work of art? WPA posters were used in 17 states and ...

including public health messaging. The posters were created under a program of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed over 8.5 ...

Carter was on the look out for posters — specifically ones created in the 1930s and '40s by artists employed by the federal Works Progress Administration. The WPA — created as part of ...

The WPA (renamed the Work Projects ... most of which are silkscreens. 'The posters aimed to improve the lives of Americans by advertising health and safety programs, travel and tourism, cultural ...