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Join three curators in conversation about the work of artists employed by the Works Progress Administration.

The Ransom Center’s Public Works: Art by Elizabeth Olds is one of several exhibitions around the country that take a fresh look at the work of women artists employed by the WPA. Join three curators in conversation on Thursday, March 28 at 6pm CT as they discuss their exhibitions and the WPA artists they’ve featured. Learn more about why this artwork is so relevant today, and why some of these artists have until recently been under-recognized. The audience will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A following the discussion.

Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.

Ransom Center Curator of Art Tracy Bonfitto, organizer of Public Works: Art by Elizabeth Olds, will be joined by Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Allison Rudnick, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Virginia Anderson’s exhibition Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA runs through June 30 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibition was co-curated with Robin Owen Joyce, BMA Getty Paper Project Fellow. 

Allison Rudnick’s 2023 exhibition Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s is accompanied by an exhibition catalog, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.