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

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But it led to the development of another art program called the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.

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a government- supported art program started during the economic period known as the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.

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In the 1960s, the State Department inaugurated a program called Art in Embassies, primarily as a vehicle to provide temporary art for ambassadors' residences during their diplomatic tenure.

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Coming up on the program, it's all art, all the time, here at the BPP.

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