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This is the home page for a series of five digital exhibits entitled “A Painting's Work is Never Done: New Loans from the Federal Art Project.” They were created during the Spring 2026 academic semester as a partnership between SUNY Geneseo and the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts. A gallery show ran May 8 through July 31.
Background on the exhibits can be accessed via the menu bar above. We begin by recounting the unusual circumstances that resulted in more than 180 new paintings and prints from the Federal Art Project being transferred to Mount Morris--and that collection's powerful resonance in our own times, nearly a century later. There also is an interactive StoryMap that explores the contingency of the art objects themselves, along with how a geographical location like the Mount Morris Tuberculosis Hospital subtly shapes their meaning as a collection.
For direct access to the student-created exhibits, click on the links below: