‘The People’s Art’ is a project, originally titled ‘Visual Arts and the Working Class’ and funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which aims to locate and document visual art produced by working class people in Britain since 1750 and especially from 1870 to the present. A lot of material, including work from the home and the workplace, ranging from paintings and photography to decorative and domestic arts of all kinds, has been located in museums (often in storerooms) and in private collections. An exhibition and an illustrated publication are planned. ‘The People’s Art’ demonstrates that the making of art can have a role in people’s lives which is too often overlooked, neglected, or denied, and which is not adequately represented in publications, exhibitions, museums, or libraries.