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Others in the Harvard Arts community share this sentiment, including Alissa E. Schapiro, ‘10, the co-director of the Harvard Art Show—an organization that provides students with a venue to display and sell their artwork. In a leadership luncheon led by the Office for the Arts (OFA) and Dean Evelyn Hammonds last year, the Dean commented that there was no venue for student artists to sell their work...
...realized it was kind of crazy that we didn’t have this,” said Schapiro. “The Task Force on the Arts was really a catalyst for us because we realized there was a void on campus for student artists to sell their work.” At the Harvard Art Show, students from all sectors of the university could exhibit their talents...
...Everyone from VES to music, to anthropology to art history, you name it, we had someone represented [in the show],” said Schapiro...
However, the Task Force on the Arts has done more than just inspire. Just as the Harvard Art Show strives to unite artists from all disciplines, the Task Force hoped to expose more students to the practice of the arts within the General Education curriculum. Its overall mission, “To make the arts an integral part of the cognitive life of the university,” as stated in its report, emphasizes the assimilation of the arts into various academic disciplines...
...don’t see it as arts against the sciences,” he added. “Fostering collaboration is crucial. A huge amount of support for the arts has actually come from the sciences. When you think about it, there’s a lot of tinkering with materials and making in the sciences that is more analogous to art practice than, say, writing a humanities paper...