On This Day in History
WORLD PREMIERE A New Film by Michael Maglaras Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA View clips at this link. Filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton return to the New Britain Museum of American Art with a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Works Progress Administration…the WPA…the federal initiative that, using art, theater, […]
Cleophas And His Own Featured at Emerge Film Festival
Filmmakers Terri Templeton and Michael Maglaras. Last week, we brought “Cleophas and His Own” back to Marsden Hartley’s hometown of Lewiston, Maine as part of the Emerge Film Festival. “Cleophas and His Own” is a poignant feature-length film based on the epic poem of the same name by painter and poet Marsden Hartley. In […]
Marsden Hartley: You Love His Art. Come Get to Know the Man.
Marsden Hartley, ca. 1941. Photo by Louise Young. Ten years ago, filmmaker Michael Maglaras screened his first film, “Cleophas and His Own,” a monumental work 2 hours and 27 minutes long, about the American Modernist master and Lewiston, Maine native, Marsden Hartley. On April 9, “Cleophas and His Own” returns to Lewiston to celebrate the […]
New film on the arts of the WPA features the Harlem Renaissance
Our new film “Enough the Live On: The Arts of the WPA” will include a section about the Harlem Renaissance and the groundbreaking work of the great muralist Aaron Douglas. This clip from the film is introduced with the poetry of Langston Hughes and features a composition by African American composer William Grant Still and […]
Associated Press Interviews Filmmaker Michael Maglaras
Film highlights art from Works Progress Administration CAROLYN THOMPSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday, February 15, 2015 Eighty years after the federal Works Progress Administration put unemployed artists to work creating sculptures and murals for post offices and courthouses comes this reminder from film maker Michael Maglaras: Look around. Much of the art is still there […]
Historic WPA Murals in Rochester, New York Preserved in Photos
Connecticut-based filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films have collaborated with the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester to photograph and digitize two historic Works Progress Administration murals painted in Rochester by Carl W. Peters. “Life of Action” and “Life of Contemplation,” important works of art from the WPA era, are […]
Why did 300 artists paint 20,000 objects?
Writer/director Michael Maglaras introduces an important excerpt from the upcoming 217 Films release of “Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA” (Music by David Dvorin). Michael Maglaras introduces the Index of American Design excerpt from his new film about the arts of the WPA from 217 Films on Vimeo. This clip features the […]
Interview with Michael Maglaras & Excerpt From His New Film About the Arts of the WPA
In this film clip, writer/director Michael Maglaras of 217 Films discusses two WPA-era murals by Carl W. Peters used in his forthcoming film “Enough to Live On: The Arts of the WPA.” Interview with Michael Maglaras and excerpt from his new film about the arts of the WPA from 217 Films on Vimeo. “Enough to […]
Des Moines Art Center to Screen Armory Show Film
217 Films’ “The Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show” will screen March 26 at the Des Moines Art Center. Director Michael Maglaras will be in attendance to introduce the film. For a full list of screening dates, times and locations, follow this link. This film has been showing to standing room only audiences since it premiered in September […]
1913 Armory Show Film – Peoria – One Day Only
“The Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show” One Day Only! Sat. Dec 13 | 5 pm Peoria Riverfront Museum Giant Screen Theatre 222 SW Washington Street Peoria, Illinois In 1913, the International Exhibition of Modern Art, which became known simply as the “Armory Show,” changed the face of art in America. At this groundbreaking show, […]