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Arts First has always tried to be an inclusive, democratic celebration. In 1992, John Lithgow ’67, inspired by the emphasis on the arts at former University President Neil L. Rudenstine’s inauguration in 1991, suggested that the University sponsor a formal event to celebrate the arts...
...Lithgow, who was then on the Board of Overseers, met with Rudenstine and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles and eventually arrived at the idea of a more organic, weekend-long celebration of student art at Harvard...
...Lithgow already thought Arts First could become an annual event, though he told The Crimson that “We only have dreams and fantasies for next year...
...with so much enthusiasm everywhere we went that one of our main challenges was limiting the scope,” Lithgow says...
...always part of my dream for Arts First that it become an annual tradition, a springtime tradition at Harvard, and become an institution. People anticipate it, it becomes a very familiar household word, and Arts First becomes the signature for a really important Harvard event,” Lithgow says...