UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Art records, 1897-1985.

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UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Art records, 1897-1985.

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Records largely consist of correspondence, faculty and committee minutes, scrapbooks and exhibition planning materials. Correspondence is between department faculty and the chair and the dean of the School of Fine Arts as well as the dean of the School of Education prior to 1962. Committee minutes document appointment of faculty positions, department curricula and policy and public relations. Files include documentation of the Paintbox Art Center, an inner-city community center which was co-sponsored by the UWM School of Fine Arts, the University Extension and grants from Title One of the Higher Education Act. Included are files about and items produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Handicraft Project (1935-1943), which provided jobs for art graduates of the Milwaukee State Teachers College. Files pre-dating 1956 mainly document the WPA Handicraft Project and activity of the Art Students' League, the organization which preceded the Art Department of the Wisconsin State Normal School. Art Students' League materials include class catalogs, student rosters and news items. Also included are several issues (1934-1937) of the Vermilion Dachshund, books of woodcut prints published annually by art students of the Milwaukee State Teachers College, a predecessor institution of UWM, in the mid-1930s.

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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