6 – 9 p.m., First Friday, May 3, 2013
New Deal Museum Gallery, North side of the first block of Columbus Avenue (two doors up from the intersection of Washington and Montgomery), San Francisco
Exhibit includes:
New Deal Museum Concept Explained
FSA & NYA Photography
National Park Poster Reproductions and Contemporary Works (Ranger Doug)
Endangered Post Office Art
WPA Posters
New Deal Ephemera
The gallery space explores the context of the New Deal’s broad social policies that included education, recreation, arts and public jobs programs. The Montgomery Block neighborhood was the home and studio space to many artists including photographer Dorothea Lange, sculptor Ralph Stackpole, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. The exhibit shows the relevance of the New Deal to today’s public policy and was organized by Harvey Smith of the Living New Deal and the National New Deal Preservation Association.
Exhibit also shown by appointment – 510-684-0414
What we need is also a network online interface much like county library systems where one could do a search and it connects all the little New Deal Town Historical Museums across the country. Greenbelt Museum, Greendale Museum, Greenhills Museum, New Deal Museum in your state as a base of sorts and then others networking in like FDR museum, Cornell Library New Deal papers, etc. That would be awesome!!!!
Debbie Mills
Director, archivist
Greenhills Historical Museum