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CETA Arts Legacy - Online Archive
(co-sponsored by Franklin & Marshall College)


Online Archive via Google Drive

These open-share Google Drive folders are being constantly updated as new materials are found.

Access is read-only. Permission for download may be requested from the Legacy Project.
See Contact link on Homepage.


Some of the materials in the Drive are directly accessible from two other pages on this website:

CETA Arts Legacy ResourcesPromoting CETA Arts History



Additional files in the Drive of particular interest are listed here with direct links:

Books, Articles, etc.

New York City: Cultural Council Foundation Artists Project: On the Identification snd Utilization of Largely Untapped Resources
the illustrated "yearbook" of the CCF CETA project (1977-81) edited by Anne Dahlgren Hecht

New York City:Ballerinas on the Dole: Dance and the U.S. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), 1974-1982
an academic article by Colleen Hooper on dancers working for the CCF CETA Artists Project

Chicago: Artists-in-residence, Chicago 1977-1981
an illustrated in-depth report on the CETA Chicago Artists-in-Residence Program (1977-81) edited by Robert Aaron Gottlieb

Dallas: The Arts in the Service of the City
an illustrated in-depth report on CETA arts projects in Dallas (initiated in 1976)

St. Paul: Artists in the City
an illustrated report on CETA arts project in St. Paul (initiated in 1977) edited by D’Arlyn Marks

Atlanta:Art Worker: Atlanta’s Contemporary Art History and the Workers Who Shaped It”
a Master's thesis by Abigail D. Miller on government funding of artists in Atlanta, inlcluding by the WPA and CETA

Philadelphia:CETA/Arts/PLTC: A Lost Equation in Arts Funding
an article by Roger N. Cornish on CETA funding of a theater nonprofit in the Philadelphia metro area

San Francisco: The Seeds of Creative Community
a report by Paul Kleyman And Barbara Kaplan on the S.F. Arts Commission's Neighborhood Arts Program a
nd its development of the CETA Arts Program as a national model from 1974-76

Los Angeles:The Job We Wanted for Life: Suzanne Jackson and CETA
an article by Molly Garfinkel and Jodi Waynberg for the catalog of the exhibition "Suzanne Jackson: What is Love"

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Documents

CCF CETA Journal (monthly, March 1978 - August 1980)
The CCF CETA Artists Project produced the "Journal" using project writers, photographers
and graphic designers;it includedarticles on the artists and activities of the project
as well as about CETA Arts developments nationally.

Jimmy Carter Message to Congress on CETA expansion 1978

Joint Economic Committee of Congress Hearing on CETA 1976

Letter from HEW/DOL to Museum Directors offering CETA funding for staff positions

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Video - Panels and Interviews

CCF CETA Administrators Panel (3/18/22)
This panel took place at City Lore during the run of the exhibition Art/Work. Participants
included Ted Berger, John Kreidler, Ademola Olugebefola, Sara Garretson, Rochelle Slovin
and Suzanne Randolph along with moderator Molly Garfinkle.

Stanley Fried (01/24/23)
a tele video interview by Virginia Maksymowicz of Fried,
who was CETA administrator for City Arts in Los Angeles

Alonzo Davis (02/28/23)
a tele video interview by Virginia Maksymowicz of Davis, who was supervisor of
CETA artists for Brockman Productions in Los Angeles

Jack Becker (12/18/23)
a tele video interview by Virginia Maksymowicz of Becker, who was gallery director
for the CETA-funded City Art Productions in Minneapolis

John Kreidler (01/17/24)
a tele video interview by Virginia Maksymowicz of Kreidler, who is recognized as the
first person in government to propose using CETA funding to employ artists

Allan and Anne Edmunds (05/25/24)
a tele video interview by Virginia Maksymowicz of the Edmunds, who directed the
CETA-funded Visual Artists in Public Service project in Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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