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specific purposed, the intention of showing the work of artists done in the respective regions to the various co-operating sponsors, to the public and to groups of under privileged persons who have no opportunity to know or to appreciate art. It is expected, when a sufficient number of galleries have been established throughout the country, to circulate exhibitions of selected material from one region among the others in this fashion not merely serve to stimulate artist and public but to bring art into the less accessible sections of America. In regions where, for one reason or another, it will be impossible to establish galleries, the Federal Art Project plans to send motorized museums.
The Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration is associated in the public mind chiefly with the aid given to artists who were affected by the depression. While there are almost 5200 men and women employed under the Project, this figure by no means represents the number of artists engaged in producing easel pictures, murals, graphic art and sculpture. As a statistical fact only 49%- about half the total number- is employment throughout the country in this, fine arts, category.
What is less widely known, is the great scope of the Project as conceived and developed by Mr. Cahill. The practical arts, in their respective divisions, employ 23% of the total. And what has perhaps the most far-reaching effects, is the educational program established. Artists act as teachers, lecturers and docents. The response has been of amazing proportions in 44 states in the Union. As a vital part of this plan, nineteen Federal Art Galleries have been opened in the South, where galleries were either non-existent or inadequate. Since January, when the first of these centers was opened, there has been and estimated total