Event Dime

Art in Every Corner: The Works Progress Administration (1935-1943)

When:

September 16, 2026 · 10:00 AM

Where:

Blanton Museum of Art, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX

Source:

6AM City Austin – Events

The devastating stock market crash of 1929 triggered the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in the history of the United States. At the height of the Depression in 1933, nearly 13 million people—roughly 25 percent of the workforce—were unemployed. In response, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created an economic relief program known as the New Deal to offer employment to struggling Americans. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federally funded agency, hired some ten thousand arti