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...BEIn addition to free tickets to Boston museums and a Broadway production of “Hair” later this semester, Faust plans to commit “significant” funds to expand the OFA??s Artist Development Fellowship program.It is unclear at this point how much money will be allocated for the program’s expansion this year, Megan says, adding that the office’s overall budget will see significant cuts.The fledging grant program, which has awarded nearly 30 fellowships since its inception two years ago, provides students with...
...lecture and masterclass hosted by the Office for the Arts (OFA) at the New College Theatre (NCT), soprano Hargis demonstrated the importance of performance gestures.“Ellen Hargis is an extraordinary resource for Baroque vocal music,” said Thomas Lee, Program Manager for the OFA??s Learning From Performers series. “She is both passionate and knowledgeable as a singer as well as a teacher to students such as these.” Hargis spoke about Baroque performance practices in opera, and concentrated specifically on the physical gestures used in that period...
...Though the task force’s recommendations remain an open question, last month’s $30 million donation for the arts from David Rockefeller ’36 should help implement the answer. Thomas Lee, the program manager of the OFA??s “Learning from Performers” series, looks toward new housing and work space in Allston in order to support longer residencies from practicing artists. Citing the positive impact of the Harvard Dance Center that opened in 2005, Ho expressed a desire for more space and facilities, as well as a stronger...
...same stage. Ingrid Schorr, the Office for the Arts representative in charge of organizing the Performance Fair, says that the OFA provides “very little artistic oversight,” and that it attempts to extend Harvard’s resources to motivated students. Carlisle cites the OFA??s importance in her own musical development: “I’ve had a really dynamic relationship with OFA??what they do is really unique in comparison to other universities and other kinds of communities,” she says. She applied for music...
...answer depends on the day you experience it.Using a novel form of semi-interactive computer art, Knep (pronounced “Kuh-NEP”) has been at Harvard since the start of the academic year as an artist-in-residence through an unprecedented joint collaboration between the OFA??s Public Art Program and HMS’s Department of Systems Biology (DSB). He will stay at Harvard until the end of the academic year and has expressed interest in lengthening the residency.Knep possesses the skills of a computer programmer and the sensibilities of an artist. Rather than...