The Public Works of Art Program was the first national effort by the United States government to support artists.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The program was important because it helped provide work for more than three thousand seven hundred professional artists who were unemployed.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

In the future, other works by female artists will be shown as part of the museum's "New York Avenue Sculpture Project".

VOA: special.2010.05.07

It was written by Palestinian artists as a way to tell personal stories about the conflict in their homeland.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

She spent most of her life working to change traditional beliefs about art,artists and a woman's professional role in society.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

One reason the Smithsonian picked April to honor jazz is because many great jazz artists were born this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which black artists explored their culture and showed pride in their race.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

She collected the work of the great ancient painters, but also worked hard to support modern artists beginning their careers.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

It was there that young Billie first heard the records of famous black American blues artists of the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

This three-week event brings eight hundred artists to the city to celebrate the arts and culture of the Arab world.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Salvador Dali is widely recognized as one of the most famous and also disputed artists of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

Harold Sanditen and his classmates had the chance to spend nine days working with top music directors and cabaret artists.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

Degas and the other artists had decided that they would no longer follow the rules and restrictions of the Paris Salon.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And,he likes to work near the other glass artists in the school because they can exchange ideas and methods.

VOA: special.2009.09.16