Media Appearances

The Forgotten Federally Employed Artists
article by Virginia Maksymowicz and Blaise Tobia for Hyperallergic (12/20)

Could a Nixon-era Employment Scheme Get Artists Back to Work?
article by Margaret Carrigan for The Art Newspaper (7/20)

Artists say a forgotten Nixon-era jobs program could radically alter federal arts funding
article by Stephan Salisbury for the Philadelphia Inquirer (4/21)

CETA Saved Me - photographic feature: aCurator (4/21)

Remembering CETA Artists in NYC
article by Anna Schwartz for the Brooklyn Public Library

What Will Culture Look Like in the Next Decade?
The Art Newspaper podcast "The Week in Art"
interview with Virginia Maksymowicz and Blaise Tobia starts at 45:55

Artists Look Back for a Path Forward
radio interview on Cityscape with George Bodarsky WFUV-FM (4/21)

The CETA Program
radio interview on Artwatch with Constance McBride, WCHE, West Chester, PA (11/20)

Panels and Presentations

"Art History in Search of a Historian"
Andrea Kirsh • Virginia Maksymowicz • Blaise Tobia
at the College Art Association conference in NYC, February 2023

"Critical Lens: Art x CETA"
Ellin Burke • Kenneth R. Cobb • Molly Garfinkel (chair) • Virginia Maksymowicz • George Malave • Blaise Tobia • Judd Tully
at the NYC Department of Records and Information Services, Municipal Archives , October 2022
Video via YouTube

"How an Almost-Forgotten Federal Program Kickstarted the Feminist Art Movement"
Virginia Maksymowicz (chair) • Jerri Allyn • Arlene Rakoncay • Senga Nengudi •Maren Hassinger • Ann Kalmbach • Nina Kuo
via Zoom March 2022 (introduction by Molly Garfinkel)
Video via YouTube

"Common Ground: Art/Work: How the Government-Funded CETA Jobs Program Put Artists to Work"
A Zoom discussion including Ted Berger, Molly Garfinkel, Bob Holman, Ademola Olugebefola and Jodi Waynberg
sponsored by The Broklyn Rail, April 2022
Video via YouTube

"The Forgotten Federal Artists: CETA and the CCF Artists Project"
Christy Rupp • Ademola Olegbefola • Judd Tully • Blaise Tobia (chair)
at the College Art Association conference in NYC (February 2019)

"Artists, Institutions and Public Funding for the Arts: the Legacy of CETA"
Tom Finkelpearl • Rochelle Slovin • Ted Berger • Steven C. Dubin • Howard Singerman (chair)
at Hunter College (February 2019)

Presentation to the American Photography Archive Group (APAG)
by CETA Arts photographers George Malave and Larry Racioppo (March 2021)

Presentation to the Appraiser Association of America
by Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz (September 2020)
Video available through the Association

Policy References

Creatives Rebuild NY is a three-year, $125 million project funded primarily by the Mellon Foundation with both employment and basic income programs for artists in NY State.
Beginning in mid-2022, the employment program will employ 300 artists and is based closely on the 1978 CCF CETA Artists Program (which it credits).

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.

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