{"id":2649,"date":"1940-01-01T13:00:38","date_gmt":"1940-01-01T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2016-03-02T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:06:35","slug":"wpas-philadelphia-fine-print-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1940\/01\/01\/wpas-philadelphia-fine-print-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"WPA\u2019s Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2650\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/R_Steth_WrappingTobacco.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2650\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2650\" src=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/R_Steth_WrappingTobacco-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond Steth\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/R_Steth_WrappingTobacco-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/R_Steth_WrappingTobacco-520x338.jpg 520w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/R_Steth_WrappingTobacco-260x169.jpg 260w, https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/R_Steth_WrappingTobacco.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Raymond Steth, <em>Wrapping Tobacco<\/em>, lithograph, c. 1940; Courtesy of Dolan\/Maxwell Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the New Deal era, the Works Progress Administration\u2019s Federal Art Project (WPA\/FAP) engaged over 10,000 artists in communities across the US. In Philadelphia, a Fine Print Workshop was established in the same building where a WPA\/FAP Poster Workshop was housed. The Fine Print Workshop quickly distinguished itself for its openness to both technical experimentation (the Carborundum print process was invented there), as well as its racial inclusiveness. Eventually five African American artists made work there, including <a href=\"http:\/\/dolanmaxwell.com\/additional1\/philadelphias-wpa-print-workshop-raymond-steth\/\">Raymond Steth<\/a> (1917 &#8211; 1997). During that time, Steth worked on the development of the Carborundum print process with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolanmaxwell.com\/artists\/thrash\/\">Dox Thrash<\/a>. Later, he played a key role in <a href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1945\/01\/01\/stanley-william-hayter-and-the-artists-workshop\/\">The Print Center\u2019s Artist\u2019s Workshop<\/a>, where he was a technical advisor along with Stanley William Hayter. Steth\u2019s work is now in numerous public collections including the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the New Deal era, the Works Progress Administration\u2019s Federal Art Project (WPA\/FAP) engaged over 10,000 artists in communities across the US. In Philadelphia, a Fine Print Workshop was established in the same building where a WPA\/FAP Poster Workshop was &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/1940\/01\/01\/wpas-philadelphia-fine-print-workshop\/\" aria-label=\"WPA\u2019s Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-timeline"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/printcenter.org\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}