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...wackier the better," Myra Mayman laughs, as she describes the types of creative endeavors that received grants this year from the Harvard Council on the Arts. Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe (OFA), is one of 10 members of the standing committee that plans to dispense over $20,000, in grants ranging from $50 to $1,000, to various creative and innovative student projects this year. This fall the council has awarded a total of $7,295 in support of 21 "wacky" under graduate art projects. The remainder of the $20,000 will...
Mayman explains that the grant program was established by the OFA in 1974 with "the purpose of integrating creative thinking into undergraduate education." It is supported in part by Harvard's main operating budget, and in part through private endowments. Grants are made for projects in the areas of dance, literature, multi-disciplinary projects, music, theater, traditional/cultural arts and visual arts...
...Sonic Jigsaw," as the name might suggest, is just the type of adventurous project the OFA loves to fund; it received one of the largest grants, $500. Coordinated by the student group EMBRYO (Experimental Music BRing Your Own)," Sonic Jigsaw" is an interactive exhibit in which participants will become "noise artists," as they play with various experimental disguised sounds. People will be able to select sections of sound and modulate those sounds, while they move the noise from chaos to one individual harmony...
...Kayden honoree selection committee includes Lee, Harvard Jazz Band Director Thomas G. Everett and OFA Assistant Director Cathy McCormick...
...Kayden fellowship is sponsored by the Harvard Jazz Band, OFA and the Learning From Performers program, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary year...