WPA : WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION PRINTS FOR CHANGE

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, artist. CREATED/PUBLISHED Ohio : Federal Art Project, W.P.A., 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

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

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

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 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

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 [Pennsylv ania : 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 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

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

Pennsylvania. Milhous, Katherine, 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.

Elisa Poletta Love is the Cure GRAPHIC DESIGNERS creating images that focus on the topic of positive change

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 By Dawn Ades, Alison McClean Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Change by Colin MooreColin 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

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