nication with the masses. So what happened is really an interesting meeting of what we would consider to be abstraction, inspired by European modernism and representational style that is legible for just about anyone."
In 2009, the museum featured a WPA-era poster contest and the winning design by Traci Fuller of Norman will be sold in a limited print of 100 using the original 1930s silkscreening process. Nineteen other entries will be displayed Feb. 12 through May 9 at Michelangelo's Coffee & Wine Bar, 207 E. Main Street in Norman. Additionally, the museum will have a series of programming drawing connections between the 1930s and the present.
"There is so much discussion about the Great Depression in the popular press that it seemed like a good idea to look at that time period," White said. "It is an interesting idea to just look at the parallels between what is going on now and what happened at that point." "?Allison Meier
