BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18662584 SEQUENCE:18736774 CREATED:20101029T004800Z DESCRIPTION:LaborFest will host a guided tour by Harvey Smith of an important new exhibition on New Deal Art between 1935 and 1943 at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek.\n\nSunday 11/28/2010 2:00 PM LaborFest Guided Tour Of The American Scene New Deal Art, 1935-1943 At Bedford Gallery\n\nJoin LaborFest Organizing Committee member Harvey Smith who is also a WPA historian and California's Living New Deal collaborator in a narrated guide on the important exhibition going on at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek.\nDetails follow:\n\n\ndirections \nBedford Gallery is located on the first floor of the Lesher Center for the Arts at 1601 Civic Drive in downtown Walnut Creek, four blocks south of the Walnut Creek BART station. There is a public garage adjacent to the Center as well as metered street parking. \n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bedford+gallery,+Walnut+Creek,+CA+94596&sll=37.903506,-122.063019&sspn=0.008127,0.013218&ie=UTF8&ll=37.902998,-122.063062&spn=0.008127,0.013218&z=16\n\nhttp://www.bedfordgallery.org/current.htm\nThe American Scene \nNew Deal Art, 1935-1943\nOctober 3 - December 19, 2010 \n\n2010 is the 75th anniversary of the launching of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) in 1935, the WPA was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects. The Federal Art Project (FAP) put thousands of artists to work creating more than 200,000 separate works, including posters, murals, and paintings. \n\nTo celebrate the WPA anniversary, we open Bedford Gallery's 2010-11 Exhibition Season with The American Scene: New Deal Art, 1935-1943. \n\nThe American Scene brings together works by more than 65 artists who found work with the FAP, some of whom lived in the Bay Area during the Great Depression. Thousands of artists created visual artworks, and struggling musicians, actors and writers got jobs with the music, theater and writing divisions. Each of these artists played a role in enriching a population that had suffered tremendous economic setbacks. \n\nDuring FDR's presidency, America was grappling with an economic situation that feels all too familiar today. Even in the midst of the Great Depression, Roosevelt's administration understood how essential art was to sustaining America's spirit. The FAP not only employed struggling artists but also provided them with a sense of pride in serving their country. About the program Roosevelt remarked, "One-hundred years from now my administration will be know for its art, not for its relief." \n\nThe Bedford's WPA exhibition provides our audiences the chance to see artworks that have been out of the public eye or in storage since the 1940's and later. We have borrowed artworks from several WPA repositories including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and many private collections. The exhibition also features several photographs by influential American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange. Rich in imagery, The American Sceneincludes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and photographs depicting home and farm, city and factory life, landscapes, and the American people at work and play. \n\nBedford Gallery is the only art venue in Northern California organizing a major show to honor the WPA anniversary, and we are proud to have the opportunity to present this exhibition that profiles a momentous and significant piece of American history. We are grateful to our exhibition sponsors Wells Fargo Bank, Lesher Foundation, and the Diablo Regional Arts Association for their support of The American Scene. \n\n- Carrie Lederer, Curator of Exhibitions \n\nThis exhibition has been generously sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank, Diablo Regional Arts Association, and the Lesher Foundation. Thank you as well to our media sponsor, Contra Costa Times.\n\nartists\n\nIda Abelman (1910-2002) \nKarl H.Baumann (1911-1984) \nFred Becker (1913-2004)\nGeorge Biddle (1885-1973) \nJulius Bloch (1888-1966) \nHelen Bruton (1898-1985) \nBeniamino Bufano (1898-1970) \nPedro Cervantez (1915-1987) \nChin Chee (1896-1966) \nRalph Chessé (1900-1991) \nDavid P. Chun (1898-1989) \nJune Dale \nHarold Mallette Dean (1907-1975) \nPele DeLappe (1916-2007) \nMarguerite Redman Dorgeloh (1890-1944) \nMarjorie Eakin (1910-1974)\nMillard Everingham (1912-1951)\nClaire Falkenstein (1908-1997) \nJames Fitzgerald (1910-1973) \nTodros Geller (1889-1949) \nElizabeth Ginno \nHarry Gottlieb (1895-1993) \nBlanch Grambs (1916-2010) \nNils Gren (1893-1940) \nJohn Haley (1905-1991) \nMilton Hebald (b. 1917) \nJohn Langley Howard (1902-1999) \nReuben Kadish (1913-1992) \nDong Kingman (1911-2000)\nDorothea Lange (1895-1965) \nJennie Lewis (1892-1944) \nErle Loran (1905-1999) \nJan Marfyak (1907-1990) \nJohn McCrady (1911-1968) \nDomenico Mortellito (1906-1994) \nArthur G. Murphy (1906-1991) \nJustin Murray (1912-1987) \nAnn Rice O'Hanlon (1908-1998) \nMine Okubo (1912-2001) \nOtis Oldfield (1890-1960) \nEmmy Lou Packard (1914-1998)\nRondal Partridge (b. 1917) \nSalvatore Pinto (1905-1966) \nAlexis Angelo Podchernikoff (1912-1987) \nGregorio Prestopino (1907-1984) \nWalter Quirt (1902-1968) \nMildred Rackley (1906-1992) \nAnton Refregier (1906-1979) \nAndrée Schafer Rexroth (1902-1940) \nDiego Rivera (1886-1957) \nLala Eve Rivol (1913-1966) \nJohn Saccaro (1913-1981)\nSuzanne Scheuer (1898-1984) \nJacques Schnier (1898-1988)\nBen Shahn (1898-1969) \nMarian Hahn Simpson (1899-1978) \nAngelo A. Sottosanti (1917-2004) \nRaphael Soyer (1899-1987) \nJoseph Sparks (1896-1975) \nClay Edgar Spohn (1989-1977) \nJoseph Vogel (1911-1998)\nHerman Volz (1904-1990)\nAlbert James Webb (1891-) \nGlenn Wessels (1895-1982) \nBernard Zakheim (1896-1985)\n\nhttp://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/news/?p=21\nMajor WPA Art Exhibition in Walnut Creek\nPosted on September 30, 2010 by gbrechin\nNational New Deal Preservation Association president and California’s Living New Deal collaborator Harvey Smith has, with gallery curator Carrie J. Lederer, culled collections in California and beyond for a major show of New Deal art at the Lesher Center for the Arts Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. The American Scene: New Deal Art, 1935-1943, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the WPA which briefly sponsored a volcanic output from painters, sculptors, printmakers, musicians, actors, and writers. This major exhibition — assembling a wealth of art largely unseen for seven decades — will run from October 3-December 19, 2010. A free reception will be held at the gallery October 5, 6-8 PM at the Gallery. Visit www.bedfordgallery.org for more information.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/28/18662584.php SUMMARY:LaborFest Guided Tour Of The American Scene New Deal Art, 1935 LOCATION:Bedford Gallery is located on the first floor of the Lesher Center for the Arts at 1601 Civic Drive in downtown Walnut Creek, four blocks south of the Walnut Creek BART station. There is a public garage adjacent to the Center as well as metered street parking. URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/28/18662584.php DTSTART:20101128T160000Z DTEND:20101128T190000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR