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Blaise Tobia is a visual artist based in Philadelphia. He received his BA in fine arts from Brooklyn College, CUNY and an MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. He maintains an active individual arts practice and also collaborates with Virginia Maksymowicz as TandM Arts.

The Forgotten Federally Employed Artists

by Virginia Maksymowicz and Blaise Tobia December 25, 2020December 23, 2020

Why are the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) artist programs less well known than the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects for being an instance when the federal government employed artists en masse?

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