Word: vac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artistic design. They may be a help but they are not a necessity. Our attitude is that of European universities, that the history of art is an intellectual discipline." The Fine Arts Department, therefore, will not in any way encourage its concentrators to take courses offered in the VAC, but will consider them "an option that is always open for the student...
Dean Franklin L. Ford considers it "possible" that visual studies courses may eventually count for concentration in Fine Arts, thus encouraging Fine Arts concentrators to take courses at the VAC. Dean Trottenberg expresses enthusiasm about the possibility of using the facilities of the VAC for scenery and lighting design for the Loeb Theater...
...Sekler states that, in view of the VAC's interest in furthering the visual arts as a means of communication, "the departments of anthropology, government, psychology, social relations, the graduate school of education, and the centers for urban and cognitive studies may be expected to have an obvious interest in the new venture." Mention has been made even of the possibility of working with television channel 2, Boston's educational TV station...
...growth of the VAC will undoubtedly involve new courses and new activities. There is no way of knowing what future courses may form on whether any particular approach to visual studies may come to receive greater emphasis. The future activities that are spoken of include fairly definite plans for an extensive program of exhibitions in the third floor exhibit room and strong hopes for a series of visiting artists who might use the fifth-floor studio. The visiting artists would normally remain at the Center for six months to a year, and would quite likely be permitted to arrange courses...
...Committee on the Practice on the Visual Arts has agreed that extra curricular work should generally be discouraged at the Center, yet it possible that some supervised individuals and groups may work at the VAC. Several people, particularly Dean Trottenberg, Sekler, and Robert G. Garner Coordinator of the Light and Communications Center, are anxious to start a collection of historically important photographs and exhibit them regularly...