Enough to Live On celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Art Project, the New Deal initiatives that put artists, writers, musicians, and actors on the federal payroll and back to work, as a part of our nation’s recovery from the effects of the Great Depression. Filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films will introduce the screening.
This film features more than 70 works of art from this period and brings viewers behind the scenes for an intimate look at Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals through the use of archival footage of Rivera at work on the murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and of intimate moments between him and his wife, the artist Frida Kahlo. Other notable works featured in the film are by Rockwell Kent, Dorothea Lange, Stuart Davis, and Reginald Marsh.
Analysis of these works is also accompanied by newly-discovered film footage and still photos of WPA artists at work…everything aimed at helping to tell the story of how Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal moved art in America out of the rarified atmosphere of the elite and brought it directly to the American people as an inspiration and catalyst for change and recovery in the 1930s. (c) 217 Films
Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA
Tuesday, September 15 at 7:00 p.m. only
Documentary, art history, history - NR - 98 min – Tickets $9 - Get tickets online
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