An art exhibit featuring works by New Hampshire artists during the Great Depression is being held at the State Library from March 19 to June 4, 2003. Announcements in Granite State Libraries and the N.H Library Association newsletter listed the opening date as February 20th, but the opening was postponed.

The State Library has mounted an exhibit of artwork by New Hampshire artists who were employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. The exhibition places artworks done for New Hampshire's visual arts component of the Federal Arts Project, 1935-1942, in historical context. It combines paintings, woodcuts, and photographs in the State Library collection with items donated to the New Hampshire Artist Archives, such as a printmaker's table and tools, along with business correspondence and newspaper stories of the time. The featured artists are Herbert Waters and Nat Burwash. Thanks to the willingness of the New Hampshire Arts Association to loan some items to the exhibit, there is also a display on Omer Lassonde, who directed the Federal program in New Hampshire. The exhibit runs for 11 weeks.