Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA

Broadcast on November 16, 2023
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant

Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art

walks us through the BMA’s brand-new exhibit, Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA, which explores the importance of women artists

many of whom are unknown today, yet who captured the human faces of industrial and domestic labor and its inherent racial, gendered, and class inequities while they used their art to support important reforms led by the era’s growing communist and socialist movements.

Singer-songwriter Si Kahn finds poetry in the many names for the third shift, that overnight work period that is the bane of existence for so many.

And, on Labor History in 2:00…the year was 1938. That was the day that the National Federation of Telephone Workers was founded in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. Graphic: Miners, by Elizabeth Olds

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