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...resources in student talent than in practice rooms [and] professionals.” And although VES routinely hires visiting professors—often-prominent film directors, painters and photographers—the department still lacks adequate faculty and resources to support demand for its popular courses. VES Chair Marjorie Garber says “Harvard and VES needs more in the way of display.” With these limited resources, VES courses routinely limit enrollment to both concentrators and non-concentrators alike...
...arose that the work environment in the department did not meet Harvard’s professional standards. Knowles replaced Phelan, a distinguished painter whose connections to the New York art world lured many top practicing artists to Harvard’s Carpenter Center, with Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, a Shakespeare scholar with no formal background in the visual arts. The case was seen both by VES faculty and outsiders as a disappointing reflection of how far Harvard was willing to stretch its resources, culture and traditions to accomodate the arts within its curriculum...
Students with interest in visual arts often complain about the limited enrollments in VES courses, which give preference to concentrators and sometimes leave non-concentrators without opportunity to practice or to use the facilities of the Carpenter Center. Garber says this simply acknowledges the “real world situation” of limited resources. Gross says the Faculty tries not to cap courses on “principle” but says he recognizes the challenge a limited number of artist faculty members would face in providing opportunities to a wide range of students...
...Chair Marjorie Garber calls the inability of student artists to show their work “a real problem...
...Staff writer Romina Garber can be reached at rgarber@fas.harvard.edu...