Word: mayman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe's Horner, a strong supporter of Mayman's operation, cites the office's Artists in Residence program as an example of its ability to enhance student's access to the arts. The office allows artists to use Radcliffe facilities in exchange for providing opportunities for students to participate or observe. Consequently, students can get a glimpse of the struggles and decision making involved with creating an artistic work. Horner says. Just last spring, for instance, the Musical Theater Lab rehearsed a production on the second floor of Agassiz and in turn allowed students to view their final product...
...project is the Learning from Performers program. During the past few years, the Office has brought such artists as Robert Redford, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright. Marsha Norman and Norman Lear to Harvard. Attracting artists is haphazard--depending on "who happens to know who," according to Mayman...
...doesn't hurt that the program has a board of prestigious outside advisors that includes Leonard Bernstein '39 and Joseph Papp which helps recommend different artists. Mayman stresses that the Office usually acts in response to requests from students in bringing guests to Harvard...
...Mayman herself is no stranger to the arts. A 1966 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Mayman says she has studied the piano for 13 years, and taken painting, drawing and dance lessons. After college, Mayman's various activities included: working as an associate director of admissions at Mt. Holyoke College: acting director of admissions at her alma mater: and living in Puerto Rico and England for a year a piece For two years Mayman worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, one year coordinating the BSO's 90th anniversary and another fundraising as the assistant director...
...fundraising experience has come in handy at the Office of the Arts, where, during the past few years. Mayman has canvassed the country in search of money to create a permanent endowment for the office. Last year Mayman says she visited 20 different Harvard clubs, bringing different students to perform "I wanted to bring a number of alumni up to date so that students interested in the arts are not left to their own." Mayman says. She adds that she stressed to the alums that continuing interest in the arts is "a very natural part of an educated person...