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CETA Arts Legacy Project
Who We Are
Former CETA Artists Working Group:
Bob Holman, Poet, CCF
Virginia Maksymowicz, Sculptor, CCF
George Malave, Photographer, CCF/FCA Documentation Unit
Meryl Meisler, Photographer, American Jewish Congress
Larry Racioppo, Photographer, CCF
Blaise Tobia, Photographer, CCF/FCA Documentation Unit
Judd Tully, Writer, CCF/FCA Documentation Unit
Note that the Documentation Unit of the Cultural Council Foundation Project
was administered by the Foundation for the Community of Artists,
the publisher of Artworkers News.
Blaise Tobia, Larry Racioppo, George Malave, Meryl Meisler and
Virginia Maksymowicz at the NYC Municipal Archive in 2016
Former CETA Artists Advisory Group:
Dawoud Bey, Photographer, CCF
Marcia Bricker, Photographer, CCF
Nina Kuo, Printmaker/Photographer, CCF
Ademola Olugebefola, Painter, CCF
Christy Rupp, Sculptor, CCF
Former CETA Administrators Working Group:
Randall Bourscheidt, former Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, NYC
Sara Garretson, former Executive Director of CCF
George Koch, former Analyst for the U.S. Department of Labor and Board Co-Chair of the CETA-funded ARTS DC project
Rochelle Slovin, former Director of the CCF CETA Artists Project
National Advisory Group:
Deborah Cullinan, Vice President for the Arts, Stanford University
Steven Durland & Linda Frye Burnham, authors of CETA and the Arts: Analyzing the Results of a Groundbreaking
Federal Job Program and CETA and the Arts II: Fifteen Case Studies
Molly Garfinkel, Co-Director, City Lore and Program Director, Place Matters, NYC
Arlene Goldbard, activist, Consultant and former Chief Policy Advisor for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
Barbara Paige Kaplan, cultural activist, former Administrative Assistant at the S.F. Arts Commission and its Neighborhood Arts Program
Paul Kleyman, journalist, former Public Information Director of the S.F. Arts Commission's Neighborhood Arts Program and Annual Arts Festival
John Kreidler, former Director of the San Francisco Arts Council’s CETA-funded Neighborhood Art Program
Laura Macaluso, independent scholar and author, Public Art and Public History (researching CETA Arts in New Haven)
Mary Okin, Assistant Director, Living New Deal, Berkeley, CA
Jacqui Shoholm, former Senior Policy and Regulatory Analyst at U.S. Department of Labor
Nancy Stephens, Board Member, Americans for the Arts
Sally Tallant, Director and Lynn Maliszewski, Collections & Archives Manager, Queens Museum, NYC
Jodi Waynberg, Executive Director, Artists Alliance, NYC
Margaret Winslow, Curator of Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
CETA Legacy Partners
City Lore/Place Matters and Artists Alliance have worked with the CETA Arts Legacy Project to document
the history of CETA's support of artist employment; they produced “Art/Work” a two-venue exhibition in 2021/22.
They have received support for their CETA Arts work from the Doris Duke, the Shelley and
Donald Rubin, the Andy Warhol and Mellon foundations, and the National Endowment for Humanities.
If you are on Facebook - see the NYC CETA Artists Project page.
Living New Deal, and specifically its New Deal Art Initiative coordinated by Assistant Director Mary Okin,
sponsored a Webinar series on CETA and the Arts during October 2024, and co-sponsored a convening,
“Forgotten Federal Art Legacies: The New Deal to CETA in San Francisco”
at the California College for the Arts, San Francisco, March 2025
In memoriam:
Ted Berger, former Director, New York Foundation for the Arts, and a designer of the CCF CETA Project (d. 2026)
Blake Bradford, senior fellow Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships, Philadelphia
(d. 2022)
Steven C. Dubin, author of Bureacratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Cultural Worker (d. 2021)