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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Patterson, Caitlin Anne. "Redecorating the Nation: Creating Democratic Arts from the Settlement House to the New Deal," Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota, June 1997.
This dissertation examines the development of visual and performing arts programs in the two settlement houses, Hull House in Chicago and Henry Street in New York City, and their influence on subsequent public art programs from 1890 to 1940. Settlement workers emphasized the transformative experience of art and the value of participation. They redecorated tenements and classrooms, staged historical pageants and living newspapers, and founded hands-on arts and crafts workshops. The idea that social welfare programs should address physical and aesthetic needs influenced both the scope of the New Deal and ideas about democratic art throughout the twentieth century.
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