In this episode of Story Search from Special Collections, Joe Shemtov interviews Allan Edmunds, founder of Brandywine Workshop and Archives, and visual artists Virginia Maksymowicz and Blaise Tobia. They discuss the benefits of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) from personal and community perspectives. Inspired by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, a New Deal program that employed artists in public works, CETA was a federal law enacted by congress in 1973 to train workers and provide jobs in public service. Find more information at the CETA Arts Legacy Project, https://ceta-arts.com.

In September 2021, the Free Library of Philadelphia will present For the Greatest Number: The New Deal Revisited. This exhibition will take a thematic look at the art and artifacts created by New Deal workers that shaped the infrastructure, morale, and myth of the United States.