Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington

Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington

We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that employed 8.5 million people over the course of eight years. In her book, Arrington challenges the popular memory of WPA art as a story of straight white men. Instead, sh