UW-Milwaukee Dept. of Art Records
1897-1985
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dept. of Art. Office of
the Chairman
UWM Archival Collection 87
3.6 cubic ft. (5 boxes)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr.
(Map)
Records largely consist of correspondence, faculty and
committee minutes, scrapbooks and exhibition planning materials. Correspondence is between
department faculty and the chair and the dean of the School of Fine Arts as well as the dean
of the School of Education prior to 1962. Committee minutes document appointment of faculty
positions, department curricula and policy and public relations. Files include documentation
of the Paintbox Art Center, an inner-city community center which was co-sponsored by the UWM
School of Fine Arts, and the University Extension and grants from Title One of the Higher
Education Act.
Included are files about and items produced by the Works Progress
Administration (WPA) Handicraft Project (1935-1943), which provided jobs for art graduates
of the Milwaukee State Teachers College. Files pre-dating 1956 mainly document the WPA
Handicraft Project and activity of the Art Students' League, the organization which preceded
the Art Department of the Wisconsin State Normal School. Art Students' League materials
include class catalogs, student rosters and news items. Also included are several issues
(1934-1937) of the Vermilion Dachshund, books of woodcut
prints published annually by art students of the Milwaukee State Teachers College, a
predecessor institution of UWM, in the mid-1930s.
English
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