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The Work Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), was part of a wider program called Federal Project No. 1, which included drama, music, and writing. It started in August 1935, was administered according to the relief rules of the WPA, lasted until June 1943, and cost about $35,000,000. Slightly over 5,000 persons were employed at its peak. Harry Hopkins first employed artists on relief when he worked for New York’s Temporary Emergency Relief Agency under Governor Roosevelt in 1932.
Harry Hopkins watching John Kovacs at work on potter’s wheel at the WPA’s “Skills of the Unemployed Exhibition,” St. Louis, October 7, 1948.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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