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Title:	Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA
Date:	11/5/2023 - 6/30/2024
Address:	The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
Location:	Baltimore, MD
Hours:	https://artbma.org/exhibition/art-work-women-printmakers-of-the-wpa/ free Wednesday, Friday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm, Thursday: 10am - 9pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://artbma.org/exhibition/art-work-women-printmakers-of- ...
Contact Info:	(443) 573-1700

Details:

In 1943, the U.S. General Services Administration entrusted to the BMA’s care nearly 1,000 prints made by artists employed by the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), which, from 1935 to 1942, offered employment to millions of workers affected by the Great Depression, including artists. This exhibition features a selection of approximately 50 prints created by women printmakers who gave visual form to the fraught state of American society during the lead up to World War II. At a time when the kinds of work available to women changed, these artists—workers themselves—focused their print production on the human faces of labor and poverty in alignment with swelling communist and socialist movements in the U.S. By attending to labor inside and outside the home, these women used their imagery to call out racial, gendered, and class-based inequities exacerbated by the temporary collapse of a capitalist economy.