Guests:

Susan Quinn, author of Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times and other books.

Monet Noelle Marshall, playwright, consultant, artist, director, founder of JOCOAA.

Monica Byrne, novelist, playwright, futurist, activist.

Further Reading:

Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times by Susan Quinn

The New Deal Art Projects, An Anthology of Memoirs by Francis V. O’Connor

Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood In New Deal Public Art and Theater by Barbara Medosh

American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA:When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor

The Subsidized Muse: Public Support for the Arts in the United States by Dick Netzer

The American Guide to the New Vermont

After the Curtain Calls

Creator of the Week with Monica Byrne

What if Trump Really Does End Money for the Arts?

Global Trends in Art Funding

How the United States Funds the Arts

Culturally Impoverished: US NEA Spends 1/40th of What Germany Doles Out for Arts Per Capita

Why Are Americans So Hostile to State-Funded Art?

Orson Welles’ Voodoo Macbeth: A forgotten diversity landmark

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