The free program, open to all, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the James J. Hill House Gallery, 240 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul.
View selections from "Thank God and FDR…" New Deal Art from Minnesota, the Works Progress Administration art collection now held in perpetuity by the Minnesota Historical Society, and listen to a gallery talk by exhibition curator Brian Szott. The collection was housed for over 70 years on location at Ah-Gwah-Ching, a state run medical facility in Walker, MN.
The Ah-Gwah-Ching archive consists of more the 160 items including prints, watercolors, oils and woodcarvings by such artists as Bob Brown, Henry Bukowski, Reathel Keppen, Dorothea Lau, Alexander Oja and Bennet Swanson. The exhibit coincides with the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, a legislative program enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt that helped the nation recover from the Great Depression.
The program is part of the "Untold Stories" labor history series sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and co-sponsored by several labor and educational organizations. View a complete schedule at http://www.thefriends.org/untold_stories.html
Share
The free program, open to all, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the James J. Hill House Gallery, 240 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul.
View selections from "Thank God and FDR…" New Deal Art from Minnesota, the Works Progress Administration art collection now held in perpetuity by the Minnesota Historical Society, and listen to a gallery talk by exhibition curator Brian Szott. The collection was housed for over 70 years on location at Ah-Gwah-Ching, a state run medical facility in Walker, MN.
The Ah-Gwah-Ching archive consists of more the 160 items including prints, watercolors, oils and woodcarvings by such artists as Bob Brown, Henry Bukowski, Reathel Keppen, Dorothea Lau, Alexander Oja and Bennet Swanson. The exhibit coincides with the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, a legislative program enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt that helped the nation recover from the Great Depression.
The program is part of the "Untold Stories" labor history series sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and co-sponsored by several labor and educational organizations. View a complete schedule at http://www.thefriends.org/untold_stories.html