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...Buell report to the administration on the conditions of the study and practice of the visual arts at Harvard drew attention to the severe deficiencies in the programs at VES and in particular to the programs in the studio arts. With the goal of remedying these insufficiencies, an extensive nationwide search concluded with the recruitment of Phelan...
Phelan’s first commitment, shared with her colleagues in VES, was to a rigorous overhaul of the curriculum; the number of courses offered in studio arts has doubled, and their quality and programmatic coherence have improved dramatically. Class size has been reduced, more courses than ever have been cross-listed, more faculty have been jointly appointed with other departments, the number of Hoopes prizes awarded to VES students has greatly increased and this Spring a record number of undergraduates, more than 40, applied for VES concentration. VES graduates are now accepted to the foremost graduate programs in this...
...measure, what Phelan has achieved within five years is astonishing: her accomplishments include integrating studio arts courses with offerings in photography, film, video, animation, history, theory and criticism; overseeing the visiting appointments of as many as 20 internationally renowned artists and critics each year as faculty in undergraduate courses; creating one of the country’s preeminent lecture series in the visual arts, aimed at undergraduate interests and open to the entire community; organizing all Carpenter Center exhibitions since 1996; coordinating projects with the Fogg museum and its director, James Cuno, to make available more studio, seminar, and shared...
...development of Studio Arts and the full range of her projects could scarcely have been undertaken, much less brought to successful fruition as they have been, had not Phelan devoted herself—with superb administrative competence—full-time and more than full-time (she has maintained a residence in Cambridge since 1995) to her department and to its goal of fostering the making of art by Harvard undergraduates. Such complex and far-reaching projects require willing and sympathetic staff support; in past years VES has been, for the most part, fortunate in having that important resource...
...Lacking any student voice, the article presented a warped view of the staff and faculty, notably Professor Christopher Killip and Arnheim Lecturer on Studio Arts Nancy M. Mitchnick. Killip arrives early every day and greets the students who are just finishing up their darkroom all-nighters. He takes on many summer research advisees and supervises intensive tutorials; this year, he even took on an extra class for rising seniors in the spring to make up for the loss of a visiting faculty member. Individually meeting with students and arranging field trips to local exhibitions, Killip keeps...