The Timberline Lodge, above, was built by the Works Progress Administration at the base of Mount Hood in Oregon between 1936-1937. Artists and craftsmen working under the Federal Art Project created art works and furnishing for the lodge.
I hesistate to say too much here, except that the current tanking of America’s financial system has me thinking quite a bit about whether I should be in an MFA program right now.
I’ve been trying to catch up on some of the background of things like Toxic CDOs and Hedge funds, and am finding the following links informative, disturbing and entertaining in varying degrees:
BoingBoing’s America’s financial system was shaken to its core on Sunday
This American Life’s The Giant Pool of Money
With all of this talk of another great depression, I can only hope to live long enough to see the revival of the Works Progress Administration and corresponding Federal Art Project. I better get busy figuring out what the equivalent of a large-scale mural will be by that time. Or maybe I should just start painting. I’ll leave it up to the boingboingers to tell me when it’s time to bury my money in jars in the back yard.