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...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...
...Less than a month into her tenure as University President, Drew G. Faust crystallized these changes by announcing the creation of a new task force on the arts, on which Ho has served. Though Faust’s commitment to the arts has largely been expressed through rhetoric and small but symbolic actions, she has generated palpable enthusiasm as the arts community begins to rethink and reshape its role at Harvard...
...don’t have the practical, it’s just theory and you’re not improving the craft,” Pecci said. Pecci, who wrote a play that opened in Berlin this past winter and serves on Faust’s task force, said he hopes to see the University move toward a dramatic arts concentration. “I think it’s necessary if Harvard wants to produce the intellectual artists—that I so admire—that have done it despite all that’s been against them...
...Faust inaugurated the first comprehensive study of the arts at Harvard in over 50 years. “Our extraordinary strengths in the arts remain fragmented, less well-understood, less well-supported, and less integrated than their importance warrants,” she wrote in her charge to the task force, which is expected to issue a report in the fall...
...Megan, who serves on the task force, said that it has taken “a leave-no-stone-unturned approach to where we are,” meeting with everyone from students to museum staffers to faculty from key academic departments. In addition, the task force has studied the arts at other universities such as Yale and Princeton...