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PRINTS FOR CHANGE
WPA :
WORKS
PROGRESS
ADMINISTRATION
Visibility zero unless you lend
your binoculars to the navy :
6 x 30 or 7 x 50 Zeiss or
Bausch and Lomb : Pack
carefully and send to Navy
Observatory,
Washington, D.C.
CREATED/PUBLISHED N.Y.
State : WPA, [between 1941
and 1943]
SUMMARY Poster asking
citizens to lend their
binoculars to the Navy,
showing a ship hit by a
torpedo.
Please keep the park clean.
Clough, Stanley Thomas, 1905- artist.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Ohio : Federal Art
Project, W.P.A., 1938.
SUMMARY Poster encouraging
conservation of a
natural resource area, showing a boy
holding a butterfly net, sitting
against a tree.
NOTES Date stamped on verso: Oct 18
1938.
Don't kill our wild life.
CREATED/PUBLISHED NYC : Works
Progress Administration
, Federal Art Project,
[between 1936 and 1940]
SUMMARY Poster showing two
deer crossing
road in front of approaching car.
NOTES Date stamped on verso: Jul
18 1940.
Visit the aquarium.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Pennsylvania :
WPA Federal Art Project,
[1936 or 1937]
SUMMARY Poster promoting
aquariums as
places to visit, showing jellyfish.
NOTES Poster designed by Hugh
Stevenson,
Philadelphia.
Date stamped on verso: Aug 4 1937.
Visit the aquarium in
Fairmount Park.
Muchley, Robert, artist
.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Pennsylva
nia : WPA
Federal Art Project,
[1936 or 1937]
Eliminate crime in the
slums through
housing.
CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York : Federal Art
Project, 1936]
SUMMARY Poster promoting planned housing
as a method to deter crime in the slums,
showing stylized man holding a gun against a
backdrop of tenement buildings.
NOTES Date stamped on verso: Sep 12 1936.
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection
(Library of Congress).
New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H.
La Guardia, Mayor - Langdon W. Post,
Commissoner.
Don't mix 'em.
Lachenmann, Robert, artist.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Penns
ylvania : WPA Federal Art
Project, [1936 or 1937]
SUMMARY Poster showing
whiskey bottle,
gas pump, and a skull.
NOTES Date stamped on
verso: Mar 27 1937.
An orderly line is a safe line!
/ BEN [monogram].
CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York] : N.Y.C.
WPA War Services,
[between 1941 and 1943]
SUMMARY Poster promoting safety
procedures
during civil defense air raid drills.
NOTES Poster design attributed to B.E.N.
Work Projects Administration Poster
Collection (Library of Congress).
Your wartime duty! Don't waste water : Do not let water
run a long time to get a drink : Do keep water in icebox
instead / Kerkam.
Kerkam, Earl, artist. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York] : NYC WPA War Services, [between
1941 and 1943]
SUMMARY Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a
campaign to conserve water, showing a man drinking waternking water.
Don't be a drip! : Be patriotic ... Stop leaks ... Save water.
Angus, Charlotte, artist.
CREATED/PUBLISHED [Pennsylvania] : Penna Art WPA, [between 1941 and 1943]
SUMMARY Poster encouraging people to conserve water.
NOTES Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43.
Service on the home
front : There's a job for
every Pennsylvanian in
these civilian defense
efforts.
Hirshman, Louis, artist.
CREATED/PUBLISHED [Pennsylva
nia : WPA War Services Project,
between 1941 and 1943]
SUMMARY Poster encouraging
participation in civil defense
efforts, showing family prepared
for work.
NOTES Date stamped on recto:
Jan 21 '43.
John is not really dull - he
may only need his eyes
examined.
CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York] : W.P.A. Fed.
Art Project, [1936 or 1937]
SUMMARY Poster recommending eye
examinations for children having difficulty
learning, showing a woman holding an eye
chart(?) in front of a boy reading a book.
NOTES Date stamped on verso: Dec 1 1937.
Sponsored by Town of Hempstead, W.H.
Runcie, M.D., Health Officer.
Keep your teeth clean.
CREATED/PUBLISHED [Rochester, NY]
: Federal Art Project, [between 1936
and 1938]
SUMMARY Poster promoting good
oral hygiene, showing stylized face,
toothbrush and toothpaste.
NOTES Date stamped on verso: Sep 2
19[38].
Work Projects Administration Poster
Collection (Library of Congress).
As old as creation :
Syphilis is now curable
:Consult your physician
/ JD.
CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York] :
WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or
1937]
SUMMARY Poster promoting
treatment for syphilis, showing
dinosaurs.
NOTES Town of Hempstead, W.H.
Runcie M.D. Health Officer.
Date stamped on verso: Dec 1 1937.
Syphilis : False shame and
fear
may destroy your future :
Have your
blood tested.
Krause, Erik Hans, b. 1899, artist.
CREATED/PUBLISHED [Rochester, N.Y.] :
WPA Federal Art
Project, [between 1936 and 1938]
SUMMARY Poster for treatment of
syphilis,
showing a man and a woman bowing
their heads in shame.
NOTES Date stamped on verso: Nov 8
1938.
Pennsylvania.
Milhous, Katherine, 1894- artist.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Pennsylvania : Federal
Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1941]
SUMMARY Poster promoting Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, showing an Amish
family.
The fly is as deadly as a
bomber!!.
Muchley, Robert, artist.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, Pa. :
War Services Project, [between 1941 and
1943]
SUMMARY Poster for Philadelphia
Department of Health warning of
potential health risks from exposure to
flies.
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
creating images that focus on the topic of positive change
Elisa Poletta
Love is the Cure
Babak Safari
Peace
Arien CostaDepaula
No Hate. Yes Love.
Smile Banh
Culture is more than a
Sterotype
Michael Jenner
We Are It’s All
Connected
Justin Soest
Why
Jay Young-Moriya
Weapons Not Food
Chesca Tria
Cyber Security
Asher Jay
Wild Chorus Line
Asher Jay
Dolphin Drip Disaster
Marc Clanchy
Homeless
Samantha Leo
Homeless Birds
Hamed Sohrabi
Move Toward Peace
Morteza Farahnak
Violence
RESOURCES
BOOKS:
Posters for the People: Art of the WPA, Enis Carter (Editor),
Christopher Denoon (Foreword by)
Posters of the WPA
Christopher Denoon (Author)
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today,
Josh MacPhee
What is a Print?
Sarah Suzuki
REVOLUTION ON PAPER MEXICAN PRINTS 1910-1960
By Dawn Ades, Alison McClean
Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Change
by Colin Moore
Printmaking: In a Transforming South Africa
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art
By Judith B. Hecker
WEBSITES:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/wpa-posters/langarts.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpaposSubjects01.html
http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html
http://www.printeresting.org/tag/mexican-printmaking/
http://positive-posters.com/posters/most-popular/page/11/
http://artatwoodstock.blogspot.com/2010/12/studio-1-printmaking-for-social-change.html
http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Bancroft/TGP.html
http://www.printeresting.org/2009/09/03/emory-douglas-black-pantherprinter-for-social-change/
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1154
http://stage.elmuseo.org/en/unit-plans/1535/overview
http://www.progressivecatalog.com/catalog/socjusposter.html
http://www.dylanminer.com/Miner_291.pdf
http://www.vanabbe.nl/press/press%20issue.pdf
http://www.nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/elizabeth-catlett