New Deal, New Day: WPA Artists at Work and Play is the first exhibition featured in the new Norwalk Historical Society Museum’s WPA Exhibition Room, curated by Valerie A. Cooper – Picture That Art Consultants. The artwork on display highlights the “New Deal” and exemplifies the optimistic feeling of a “New Day” in the careers of the WPA artists who participated in the eight-year, short-lived, yet life-changing national work relief program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935.

There were a range of local, regional and national artwork created for the WPA funded Federal Art Project. In addition, there are vintage photographs, original ceramic vessels and the recently released U.S. Postal Service WPA stamps collection. The WPA mural “Steamboat Days on the Mississippi” will be reintroduced, which was relocated from Norwalk City Hall. The Norwalk Historical Society Museum will become an official stop on the Norwalk WPA Murals Trail.