WPA Art Curriculum Websites
The following sites have incorporated the history of the WPA Federal Art Program into their school curriculums. Please let me know if you wish your own curriculum-oriented website included in this list.
Post
Office Murals Special Interest Group (SIG)
http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/colette/muralsSIG/default.html
Post Office Murals in Nebraska http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/sigs/posters/listofmurals.html
Texas Post Office Murals http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/colette/muralsSIG/Texas.html
Curriculum Tie-ins http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/sigs/posters/waystouse.html
Participating
Teachers and Their Plans
(Click on a teacher's name to view the unit that he/she has planned utilizing
the post office murals)
http://communitydisc.westside66.org/html/sigs/posters/teacherplans.html
The New Deal Art Project -
Classroom Connection
Matthew R. Fidler, Rome City School District 112, East Thomas Street, Rome,
New York 13440 - Ph 315-334-7400 Fax 315-334-7409 - email: mrfidler@syr.edu
http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/newdeal/classroom.php
The New Deal Art Project http://www.pioneeringpartners.org/pioneer.nsf/0/89eba55237fa249e852567f5004985b5?OpenDocument
Arkansas Post Office Mural Project http://www.uca.edu/divisions/academic/art/murals/homepage2.htm
EDSitement: Dust
Bowl Days
Teach students about the Great Depression era through the ballads of
Woody Guthrie, the novels of John Steinbeck, and Works Progress Administration
(WPA) photographs.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=300
Ellis
Wilson: A High School Art Lesson
This model of an activity in which students create an original painting
in response to the documentary about African American WPA artist "Ellis
Wilson—So Much To Paint," by Kentucky Educational Television
http://www.ket.org/content/elliswilson/hscurriculum.htm
Historic
Art and Architecture in Highland Park Schools
A comprehensive site describing lesson plans linked to art in the Highland
Park, IL schools.
http://www.highlandpark.org/historic/art_hist_web/
The
Great Depression and the Arts
A Unit of Study for Grades 8-12
http://www.newdeal.feri.org/nchs/index.htm
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