Here's the assignment!

For a half-quiz grade (due 11/7), put together a blog post about an artist of the Great Depression.  The artist can be a painter, photographer, writer, musician, or whatever.  The artist could have been one funded by New Deal programs, but it doesn't have to be.

Include the following in your post:

• Brief biographical sketch of the artist.  (include a parenthetical citation for your source).
• Brief treatment of how TWO works by this artist communicate important information about the Great Depression.

The post doesn't need to be long.  You do need to include the two pieces of art in the blog (so that the rest of us can see them).

For what it's worth, here's my offering.  One of the greatest contralto singers of all time was an African-American woman named Marian Anderson.  When she toured in Europe, she was a rock star (literally).  When she came back to the US in 1939, she could find no venue in the Washington, DC that would allow her to perform.

So she gave an outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial, foreshadowing an event 24 years later.

And here is Marian Anderson singing what I would argue is one of the most beautiful renditions of Schubert's Ave Maria.

Remember, SPC athletes are exempt from this requirement, though I hope that many of you will take a moment to see what your classmates have contributed.