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SUMMARY:Lauren Arrington | BOHEMIANS ON THE BREADLINE
LOCATION:The Champagne Bar\, 420 W Kennedy Blvd\, Tampa\, FL 33606\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Lauren Arrington as she discuss
 es her newest release\, BOHEMIANS ON THE BREADLINE interviewed by Keri Wat
 son. About the book: The extraordinary and unexamined history of a radical
  group of women artists funded by Roosevelt's New Deal\, who challenged ra
 cism and inequality and created enduring works of public art. Arrington fo
 cuses mainly on the artists Alice Neel\, Augusta Savage\, Georgette Seabro
 ok\, Lenore Thomas Straus\, Pablita Velarde\, and Elizabeth Olds. They are
  white\, Black\, queer\, and in some cases openly communist. Neel has had 
 a huge public resurgence in recent years--with a big Met retrospective--an
 d Savage has also been rediscovered. But otherwise\, these women and their
  work have been neglected for decades. Under Roosevelt's Works Project Adm
 inistration\, part of the New Deal\, artists were employed to make public 
 art. Arrington spins a fascinating tale of radical artists who suddenly fo
 und themselves being paid by the government to make art that expressed the
 ir anti-fascist\, anti-racist\, and often proletarian views. Arrington was
  the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars 
 Award and the Robert & Ina Caro Award from Biographers International Organ
 ization. She was also a visiting fellow at the Schomburg Center for Resear
 ch in Black Culture at the New York Public Library--a highly competitive p
 ost--where she conducted a lot of her research. Quotes from her NEH grant 
 committee are included here\, and we hope for continued support from the N
 YPL. There are 35 b&w photos throughout the text that portray the artists 
 at work\, as well as group shots of some of the artists\, including the in
 fluential Harlem Artists Guild\, which served as an important community gr
 oup. There will also be two 8-page color inserts that will feature the wor
 k of the main artists discussed. The story centers mostly on Manhattan\, b
 oth the Downtown and the Harlem arts scenes in the 1930s\, but it also tra
 vels to Washington D.C.\, Maryland\,
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