Music
How many orchestras in the US did the federal music project kickstart?
34
What was the largest project in the Federal Writers project and what did it do?
The American guide series, created guides to all US states and territories.
When was Ishigaki released from the FAP?
1937
How many major projects were there under Project Number one?
4
How many people left the WPA role each month
10,000
95,000
60,000
37,000
3. 60,000
Why couldn't the WPA employ the character Madam Alberta K. in Langston Hughes Madam's Past History?
because they deemed her wealthy yet her having lost all her wealth
Murals, Sculpture, Painting, Theatric Scenery, Photography and Posters/Graphic Design
True or False: The Government funded artists to paint, sing, write, and perform?
True
What is one message/theme you took from the variety of songs from either set of songs?
Desperation
Despair
Gender equality
Racism
In the slave narrative, how does Mary Reynolds and her accompanying family use religion and prayer?
As a sense of comfort amidst against the brutality of slavery
Why were Ishigaki Murals removed?
They were offensive to people
Who claimed, “...who been exposed to culture in childhood and to the stimulus of artists, musicians, and theatre people in later years, he assumed that classical music, legitimate theatre, and the masterpieces of art were a part of the good life.”?
Roosevelt
What was the value in providing free music lessons?
Kickstarting the next generation of music. Without promotion of and access to music, it was not guaranteed to succeed in the future.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston and how was she significant to the Federal Writers Project?
Zora Neale Hurston was a Florida Federal writers project employee who documented the culture of black Floridians. Her work with the FWP allowed her to continue her lifelong mission of documenting African American culture.
Jacob Lawrence was the first to do what two things?
First art work shown in NYC by an African American and the first piece of black art to be purchased by MOMA (Museum of Modern Art).
What were the three Rs the WPA focused on?
Relief, Recovery and Reform
Analyze this quote that introduces a song; “this one is called “sit down servant, and it’s the story of an old colored woman who is not allowed to sit down in this world but looks forward to her golden chair in the next”. What themes in the context of the great depression does this quote reflect?
themes; reliant on the idea of “next life”, a sense of spiritual hope, employment, racism, gender inequality
How does Langston Hughes poem Out of Work present the WPA?
As an institution that fails to reach the most vulnerable and properly provide necessary relief, especially to African Americans, during the Great Depression.
What were the three arms of the FAP?
Public Works of Art Project, Section of Painting and Sculpture, and Treasury Relief Project
What rolls did a majority of the WPAs clientele come from?
90%