Projects

The Art of Yoga Project is an organization that seeks to rehabilitate teenage girls in the juvenile justice system by teaching them art, yoga, and journaling. The program was founded in 2002 by yoga teacher and nurse practitioner Mary Lynn Fitton, and it became a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization in 2005. The Art of Yoga Project currently teaches in several sites in California, including the Margaret J. Kemp Camp for Girls (part of the San Mateo County Juvenile Correctional Facility in San Mateo, California), the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center, and the James Ranch Residential Center in San Jose, California

The Art Genome Project is the search technology behind Artsy. The Art Genome Project's search technology is the product of an ongoing art-historical study—undertaken by a team of contributors with art-historical backgrounds at Artsy—seeking to define the characteristics which distinguish and connect works of art, architecture, ancient artifacts and design

The Wall Street crash of 1929 left many artists (as well as other workers) in the United States unemployed. Collectors who normally could afford to purchase such luxury items no longer had the means to do so. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program created funding for art projects which would inspire confidence in American life and history. The program's objective was to hire artists to create works of art for display in public buildings throughout the country.

The Federal Art Project (1935–43) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. As many as 10,000 artists were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. Artists were paid $23.60 a week; tax-supported patrons and institutions paid only for materials