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CETA Arts Legacy - Resources for Cultural Sector Recovery
CETA Arts in the Media and in Policy Development
NYC mayor Bill de Blasio's announcement of the City's Artists Corps project (5/6/21) cites CETA as an inspiration for the Corps.
Earlier, in the 2018 Create NYC plan developed by the Department of Cultural Affairs, the CETA Artist Project is included as a case study.
The recently announced Creatives Rebuild NY initiative to provide artist employment in N.Y. State
funded by $125M from the Mellon Foundation along with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Ford Foundation
credits the CETA Arts projects as its inspiration.
See: Full List of CETA Arts appearances in the Media
Artists speak about their CETA experiences
Videos by two acclaimed artists who credit CETA Arts
as an imposrtant experience in their lives and a valuable social program:
Peter Coyote • Bill Irwin
A reflection by CETA artist Dawoud Bey on the experience, from his Blog.
Historic Reference
Looking for CETA: Tracking the impact of the 1970s federal program that employed artists
an article by Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland on the site Forecast Public Art (May 23, 2017)
Frye Burnham and Durland also wrote a two-part book "The CETA Arts and Humanties Experience" (2011)
It interprets the studies done by by Morgan Management Systems for the U.S. Department of Labor in 1979-81.
It is available from Kindle.
The Federal Artist is a 45-minute documentary video on the CETA CCF Artists Project
produced in 1979 by a team of media artists from the CETA-funded
Foundation for Independent Video & Film, led by its director Marc Levin.
A Place in the Workforce is a 30-minute film produced in 1980 for the U.S. Department of Labor
to demonstrate the long-term effectiveness of CETA employment for artists.
CETA Arts in Arizona a short film produced in connection with CETA arts projects in Phoenix AZ
The Clark Street Subway Station ceramic murals (some of the last extant CCF public art works)
are documented on the site Tiles in New York.
An article in the N.Y. Times (December 30, 1977) announced the CETA-funded NYC Artist Projects.
55 file boxes of records and 16 boxes of A/V materials of the CCF CETA Arts Project are held by the NYC Department of Records
There is also an additional box of CETA photographs by Terise Slotkin documenting the Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association.
The Municipal Archives Visitor Center is at 31 Chambers Street, but the CETA records are stored offsite,
so advance arrangements must be made to have the desired file boxes brought to the Center.
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