Thursday, April 25, 5:30 p.m.
A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State
Documentary film screening and post discussion with filmmaker Kara Heitz
Heitz’s film, produced with Graham Carroll, documents the history of murals painted for Kansas post offices as part of New Deal arts programs. Join her after the screening for a conversation about the murals’ historic and contemporary significance. A New Deal for Public Art in a Free State is a film by Clio’s Scroll Productions LLC in conjunction with the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery and funded by a grant from Humanities Kansas. Kara Heitz is a lecturer in history in the department of liberal arts at Kansas City Art Institute.
This talk is in conjunction with the exhibition Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection, on view March 5 – June 15, 2019.
Mural by Birger Sandzen in the post office at Lindsborg, KS. Image by the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery.
