ART/WORK: The Practice and Politics of CETA and the Arts, 1974-1981

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ART/WORK: The Practice and Politics of CETA and the Arts, 1974-1981

Thursday, August 20, 2026
This exhibition revisits CETA-funded arts programs as a transformative public investment that sustained experimental, community-based artistic practice across the country in the 1970s.

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