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...visiting artist program will involve inviting theater and dance artists to develop ideas for productions, using students from the Harvard-Radcliffe community and Agassiz as a base, Myra Mayman, coordinator of the Office of the Arts, said yesterday...
...theatrical direction. This year the office will offer seminars with tenor Paul Sperry and playwright Jonathan Levy. Sculptor Ann Sperry will offer a seminar as well as lecturing about contemporary American women artists. "We want to get students involved with artists in a way that they couldn't themselves," Mayman says, and the personal interaction that goes on in the seminar ensures this goal...
...grants up to $10,000 a year to students proposing innovative programs "which will broaden undergraduates' understanding of the arts." The office also coordinates the goings-on at the Agassiz theater next door to its Radcliffe yard office. "At the theater we've got a doctrine of anti-interference," Mayman says--a policy which is largely absent from all other aspects of the office's intense professional instruction...
...Office of the Arts, as it is today, Mayman explains, was spawned by two events: the merger and by the recommendations of Bok's 1973 committee to review the state of the arts at the University. The committee, headed by James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, suggested that the presidents create an office which might eliminate the "confusion and diffusion" of the arts at the newly merged schools...
...didn't take long for Mayman and her office to eliminate whatever confusion and diffusion that plagued the arts at the schools before and during the merger. The office--and the arts at Harvard-Radcliffe--now look as complete and polished as a painting by a master artist...