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Hundreds of tax supported institutions, schools, colleges, hospitals, public buildings, etc., have received paintings, murals, sculptures, drawings, and prints.  Schools, public museums, National Park Service museums, Federal, state and municipal educational organizations, and the construction projects of the Works Progress Administration have been benefited by charts, models and other exhibits furnished them by the Federal Art Project as aids in the task of visual education.
In community centers all over the country tens of thousands of under privileged children and adults are being provided with a valuable means of occupying their leisure through lecture, exhibitions, and the acquirement of new and culturally profitable activities in the practice of the arts at classes in drawings and modeling, and the graphic and applied arts.
No phase of work of the Federal Art Project has greater bearing on the future of art in American than its teaching program.  Hundreds of highly trained teachers of art, displayed by depression economy, are holding classes daily in boys' clubs, girls' service leagues, schools, churches and settlement houses.  These art classes are not merely individually valuable, but socially useful as well.  They have everywhere been recognized as a contribution to child welfare and as a deterrent to juvenile delinquency.
Probably the most dramatic and picturesque of all the work on the Federal Art Project is in the field of mural painting.  In this country, mural painting has until now been a much neglected art, and American artists have had few opportunities in this field.  Many of our most talented painters have had their first opportunity to paint