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Art for the People: American Murals from the Great Depression Free Lecture sponsored by the Greenbelt Museum Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Greenbelt Community Center, Multi-Purpose Room 201 Greenbelt, Maryland Speaker: Dr. Helen Langa Associate Professor of American and Modern Art, American University. Dr. Helen Langa will present a lecture and slideshow exploring the public art murals created during the Great Depression of the 1930s. As part of the New Deal, the federal government put artists to work creating public art across the nation. Mural painting became one of the most dynamic and socially intriguing forms of American visual art. Dr. Langa’s lecture will show how artists responded to this time of great social upheaval through the themes of American national ideals and regional differences. Dr. Langa has published numerous articles on 1930s painting and printmaking, and her book Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York was just published in March 2004 by the University of California Press. In 2000, she curated an exhibition of 1930s mural studies, prints, and paintings at the University of Maryland Gallery of Art. The Greenbelt Museum sponsors a bi-monthly lecture series that is free to the public. The lectures explore aspects of the history of the Great Depression and World War II era. Greenbelt, Maryland is a National Historic Landmark planned community built in 1937 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Greenbelt was designed as a cooperative garden suburb that would be a model of modern town planning in America. The Greenbelt Museum allows visitors to experience Greenbelt’s beauty and rich history through tours of a historic home, award-winning exhibits, public lectures, educational programs for children, and walking tours of the historic town. For more information please contact Katie Scott-Childress or Jill St. John, Greenbelt Museum 15 Crescent Road Greenbelt, MD 20770 301-507-6582 greenbeltmuseum@ci.greenbelt.md.us
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