Ennis Karter had a busy month. As founder and director of Design for Social Impact & The Social Arts she has been busy executing an amazing array of activities surrounding her exhibition Posters for the People: Public Art Then & Now. The exhibition examines the, “75-year history of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), through the lens of posters created by artists for various federal governmental agencies and material from the Museum Extension Project, which are part of Design for Social Impact’s collection”. In keeping with the spirit of the New Deal artworks the exhibition includes work by kids in Philadephia’s Mural Arts Project, who worked with local Screen artists, Candy DePew. The exhibition can be seen at The Mural Arts Gallery in Philadelphia through November 26th.
The expo (which ran from October 24th-26th) included print workshops around the city, where the public was invited to work with local print artists to create their own posters, panel discussions, a book launch for the Posters for the People book, a New Deal Film festival and if you can believe it, a field day.
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