The CETA Artists Project was a federally funded employment program for visual, performing and literary artists during the late 1970s. It was the largest such program since the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s (post Great Depression) employing more than 4000 artists nationally. In New York City, approximately 500 accomplished but underemployed artists were given positions in five programs, the largest of which (employing 300) was the Cultural Council Foundation (CCF) Artists Project. The artists were placed with hundreds of community sponsors for whom they taught classes, led workshops, developed public artworks, gave musical and theatrical performances, did community documentation. In exchange, they received a generous salary, benefits, and one day per week to work in their studi