Flash Forward

Guests:Susan Quinn, author of Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times and other books.Monet Noelle Marshall, playwright, consultant, artist, director, founder of JOCOAA.Monica Byrne, novelist, playwright, futurist, activist.Further Reading:Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times by Susan QuinnThe New Deal Art Projects, An Anthology of Memoirs by Francis V. O’ConnorEngendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood In New Deal Public Art and Theater by Barbara MedoshAmerican-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA:When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick TaylorThe Subsidized Muse: Public Support for the Arts in the United States by Dick NetzerThe American Guide to the New VermontAfter the Curtain CallsCreator of the Week with Monica ByrneWhat if Trump Really Does End Money for the Arts?Global Trends in Art FundingHow the United States Funds the ArtsCulturally Impoverished: US NEA Spends 1/40th of What Germany Do