Sacramento Art Center
Size: 2 partial microfilm reels.
Summary: Correspondence; clippings; writings; reports; photographs; radio script; catalogs; and copy of a WPA Technical Series Art Circular No. 1, FEDERAL SPONSORED COMMUNITY ART CENTERS, October 8, 1937.
Community Art Center, Sacramento, Calif. Established May 1938 by the Federal Art Project art education division. Was the first such center to be co-sponsored and funded by the FAP in California.
The lender, John B. Mathew, was an art instructor at Sacramento Junior College and was the secretary of the Sponsoring Committee for the Sacramento Art Center.
Microfilm reels NDA 3 & NDA 14 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Sacramento Art Center records, 1937-1941. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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