Word: mayman
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...Harvard leading seminars or giving lectures about their careers. But the office has also sponsored longer-term projects, such as the Artists in Residence program, as well as performing the all-vital role of funding various student art-related projects like original plays and dances. And this year, Mayman and her staff are arranging a year long "festival to the arts," in honor of the office's 10th anniversary (See accompanying article...
...Each year is more interesting than before [in bringing] a whole new set of problems to solve," Mayman says...
...extent of the office's programs, in fact, is remarkable given its meager beginnings--especially in a place where the arts had not always been strongly supported. Ten years ago, when Mayman arrived at Agassiz, she had no idea of the direction of the newly designed Office of the Arts. When she originally met with Presidents Bok and Horner, for instance, she recalls that they told her "they had a cumbersome job offer"--to initiate an undefined and novel arts project...
...Mayman was actually given to jobs. Horner wanted her to run Radcliffe's long-existing extracurricular arts program, which included the Agassiz Theater, a pottery studio, a dance program, a painting studio in Currier House, and a print workshop. Bok was less specific, encouraging her to design programs to get students actively involved in the arts, rather than just teaching history or theory, which were already covered in the curriculum. Translated into practice, this commission gave Mayman essentially a free hand in developing the office...
...office's approach to boosting the arts since then has always been to encourage learning from others, and Mayman is especially leery about trying to control students' artistic directions. After a program or student project has been funded, for example, her office backs off and does not try to influence them. "What we can provide on a permanent basis--what students can't provide for themselves--is bringing artists here to teach." Mayman says, explaining her priorities...