Documentary Films 2016
Documentary on WPA Art Coming to Norwalk for One Night, May 4
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You can see the new documentary “Enough to Live on: The Arts of the WPA” just once at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 at Norwalk Community College’s PepsiCo Theater, in Norwalk — a community where you can see one of the country’s biggest concentrations of surviving WPA art. In Norwalk the WPA paid for more than 50 murals, with 31 in City Hall alone. The city “is considered as having one of the highest concentrations of restored Depression-era art in the country,” according to a Norwalk Hour article about the documentary. The city’s WPA art wasn’t featured in the documentary, but the film does include a Norwalk man, Robert Reynolds, 91, whose father lost his job in the 1930s, according to the Hour. Reynolds talks about seeing artists as they worked on murals commissioned by the government at the post office.