Colorado’s Forgotten Printmakers: The Sterling Project
By Elaina Flemming, Graduate Class of 2027 In 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created the Federal Art Project (FAP), which gave artists jobs and opportunities to uplift their communities with murals, posters, and other public art projects. The WPA branch of Colorado collaborated with the State Historical Society to fund what was colloquially known as the Sterling Project, a series of over fifty commissioned woodblock prints meant to be disseminated to Colorado educational institutions. The Colorado State Historical Society later grew into the History Colorado museum, the home of many of the prints from this series. The Sterling Project’s...