Cordata Gallery’s newest exhibition, “Modern Meets Primitive,” has its opening from 2–4 p.m. Saturday, July 12, and features work from three local artists: Richard Nash, Brian O’Neill and David Syre.

President Roosevelt today ordered the "prompt liquidation" of the Works Projects Administration, last of a succession of New Deal relief agencies.

WPA stands for Works Progress Administration, created in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The goal was to provide employment for those who were suffering during the Great ...

A nearly 90-year-old clubhouse at City Park is facing demolition, but members of the Historic Preservation Commission want to salvage it.

Local artist Kathy Stark's "See Jacksonville" pays tribute to local parks in the style of WPA-era national park posters.

FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. Could Biden do the same? We look back at a moment in U.S. history when the federal government remade its relationship with the economy.

The Living New Deal started as a book project on the WPA in California but soon outgrew the original intent as the vast extent of New Deal public works projects became clear.

Conventional art was favored, to appeal to the broadest audience. Yet another program, called the Federal Arts Project, which was under the WPA, began in 1935. It employed artists on a salary, ...

Local examples of New Deal projects abound, Rauchway noted. McClatchy High School, which opened in 1937, was a Works Progress Administration project, as was Land Park’s WPA Rock Garden.

Over 140 projects were completed by the WPA in Los Angeles. This episode highlights many of these works still standing and asks the question what would a WPA look like if it still existed today.

Dr. Steigerwald will present “In Search of America: WPA Arts and New Deal Culture” Sunday, June 19 at 2 p.m. at the Decorative Arts Center in Lancaster.