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The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a relief program created by Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression to provide work for the unemployed.\u00a0 One part of\u00a0the WPA, called the Federal Art Project (FAP), employed s<\/span><\/span>everal of the artists that came to Monhegan after WWII.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Zero Mostel<\/a><\/strong> taught drawing and painting at the 92nd Street Young Men and Young Hebrew Association and gave gallery lectures at the Museum of Modern Art as\u00a0part of the art teaching division.\u00a0 In fact, Charlie Martin, another Monhegan artist, was Zero’s WPA supervisor.<\/a>\u00a0Joe DeMartini<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Remo Farruggio<\/a><\/strong> worked in the easel division, in which artists received a stipend to work in their studios and submit paintings to the government. Remo was one of two artists to be given an FAP sponsored solo exhibition. Michael Loew<\/strong><\/a> worked first in the easel division, and then in the mural division and\u00a0Jo Levy<\/strong><\/a> worked for the\u00a0 sculpture division.\u00a0Murray Hantman<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Henry Kallem<\/a><\/strong> and Nicholas Luisi<\/strong><\/a> also found employment through the Federal Art Project.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/artist-group-shot-for-web-version-3.jpg” alt=”Joe DeMartini, Zero Mostel, Herb Kallem and Mike Loew. Photograph by Bud Kornbluth.” title_text=”Joe DeMartini, Zero Mostel, Herb Kallem and Mike Loew. Photograph by Bud Kornbluth.” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||100px||false|false”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-80px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false”]<\/p>\n Joe DeMartini, Zero Mostel, Herb Kallem, and Mike Loew on Monhegan. Photograph by Bud Kornbluth.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATIONThe Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a relief program created by Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression to provide work for the unemployed.\u00a0 One part of\u00a0the WPA, called the Federal Art Project (FAP), employed several of the artists that came to Monhegan after WWII. Zero Mostel taught drawing and painting at the 92nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53647,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52304\/revisions\/53647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/postwarmodernism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}