Celebrate National Park Week With Crowdsourced Artwork

Aaron Perry-Zucker first learned about the Federal Arts Project in high school. What he didn't know was how instrumental he would be in reviving its use of art to inspire tourism to the U.S. National Parks.

Along with Max Slavkin, Perry-Zucker is co-founder of the Creative Action Network (CAN), the force behind the See America project, which encourages artists to submit works that celebrate the parks. The project was a groundbreaking partnership with the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)

While CAN is only a few years old, the NPCA was founded in 1919; NPCA's involvement gives See America a direct connection to the New Deal agency that commissioned artists in the 1930s and 1940s to illustrate the natural landscapes of the United States. Read more...