The posters of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), iconic for their distinct style and direct messages, inspired Americans in the 1930s and '40s—and 81 years later, their vintage charm appeals to ...

And still, Leen keeps searching, following the advice of famous Smoky Mountain writer Horace Kephart—himself a seeker—who, ...

The Works Projects Administration (WPA), originally the Works Progress Administration, was the largest and most ambitious agency in FDR's New Deal. The WPA appropriated 6.7 percent of the country's ...

Next year's commemorative stamps will feature a retrospective on the Works Progress Administration, better known as the WPA. Created by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration in 1935 as a way to ...

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The National Constitution Center now has on display dozens of posters created during the Great Depression. Back then, the Works Progress Administration hired 500 artists to design posters to promote ...

WPA public service posters are often recognized for their remarkable design. Lesser known? They also pioneered the art of screen printing. From 1935 and 1942, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Works ...

Ennis Carter headed to New Orleans a few weeks ago for a vacation. She took a side trip — as the founder and director of the Philadelphia-based Design for Social Impact does whenever she visits a part ...

The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) or WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people ...

Federal travel posters designed in the Depression-era pop up as the 18th-century building gears up for big anniversaries. "Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters," at Carpenters' Hall celebrates ...

Artist Hannah Rothstein created a series of images in the style of vintage posters for US National Parks that imagines what they will look like if we don't act against climate change. In 1938, the ...