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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. F ranklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, forged in the 1930s, placed artists front and center via a series of innovative programs. The best known of these, the Works Project Administration, funded painters, sculptors, and photographers for everything from public murals à la Thomas Hart Benton and Alexander Hogue to photographic images by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange that documented the human face of the Great Depression. Now two artist-focused programs founded in Texas offer grants to talents economically impacted by the new coronavirus. The silver lining is the creation of artworks refl ective of this time and place, yielding a visual document while it gets creators back creating. Good news arrives via Dallas: The dream team behind The Goss-Michael Foundation and MTV Re:Defi ne, Joyce Goss and Kenny Goss, have come together with Maxine Trowbridge, f o r m e r P a p e r C i t y Dallas editor in chief and past president of the Dallas C o n t e m p o - rary board. The result is the recently minted Artrinity, which puts forth an engaging collecting project. Postcards of Positivity plans to tap Texas, national, and international artists to contribute a postcard-sized artwork for acquisition for a democratic $250, with its creator anonymous until purchase. The works will be exhibited and sold online. Trowbridge told PaperCity that the three founders of Artrinity are reaching out to their A-list artist network, aiming for at least 100 participants. All Postcards of Positivity proceeds benefi t Artist Relief, a fund co-organized by respected nonprofi ts including Creative Capital, Artadia, and MAP Fund, that awards $5,000 grants across all disciplines. Call for artists now through July 3; exhibition and online auction June 1 through July 31; contact artrinity.com, artistrelief.org. Just in: The New Normal: An Artist's Response to COVID-19 is a Fort Worth- centered initiative led by Sasha and Edward P. Bass' Fine Line Group, in partnership with the Alice L. Walton Foundation, the Donny Wiley Memorial Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation, and Kit and Charlie Moncrief. With a signifi cant $100,000 raised, The New Normal seeks to fund as many as 40 Fort Worth artists via individual grants of $2,000 or $5,000; recipients are enjoined to produce a work that mirrors our times. The resulting creations, to be completed by the end of summer, will be exhibited in Fort Worth this fall at a venue to be announced. Eight cultural cognoscente weigh in on the honorees, announced over three grant cycles, open now through June 10: Sasha and Edward P. Bass, joined by gallerist/nonprofi t founder Lauren Childs, and museum heavy hitters including the Amon Carter's Maggie Adler, Mary Burke (recently of the Sid Richardson Museum), The Modern's Alison Hearst, Patricia Riley of the National Cowgirl Museum, and the Kimbell's George Shackelford. Info newnormalfw.com. More on this story at papercitymag.com. Catherine D. Anspon ARTIST RX: WPA FOR OUR TIME Jay Wilkinson's PPE, 2020 COURTESY THE ARTIST AND FINE LINE GROUP / THE NEW NORMAL Artrinity's Maxine Trowbridge, Kenny Goss, Joyce Goss SCENTS SURROUND I f Diptyque can make our surrounding scents so sublime, imagine what it can do to scent our very beings. L'Art du Soin, Diptyque's collection of skin and body care in classic Diptyque packaging, focuses on a range of textures — lotion, balm, oil, wax, and water — that transform on the body. Cleansing balm becomes an oil and then a lotion; radiance powder changes to foam. Infused with essences of bitter orange, rose and iris petals, violet, and jasmine, the collection ranges from $26 to $90. At the Diptyque boutique in NorthPark Center, Neiman Marcus. diptyqueparis. com. Diptyque Émulsion Velours pour les Main CAROLINE TRUE 10 Crème Riche pour le Corps