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Still, the report, while calling the visual arts “an integral part of the humanities” and of life, held back in its rhetoric: “We do not propose to inject the art school into the academic life, but rather to give the experience of art its rightful place in liberal education…It is still doubtful if a student at Harvard can find space or time to apply himself seriously to creative work in the visual arts...
This ambivalence has been reflected in the last few decades of art at Harvard. While former VES department chair Ellen Phelan was hired to reinvigorate Harvard’s academic visual arts program, former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles removed her from the chair after complaints arose that the work environment in the department did not meet Harvard’s professional standards. Knowles replaced Phelan, a distinguished painter whose connections to the New York art world lured many top practicing artists to Harvard’s Carpenter Center, with Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, a Shakespeare...
Students with interest in visual arts often complain about the limited enrollments in VES courses, which give preference to concentrators and sometimes leave non-concentrators without opportunity to practice or to use the facilities of the Carpenter Center. Garber says this simply acknowledges the “real world situation” of limited resources. Gross says the Faculty tries not to cap courses on “principle” but says he recognizes the challenge a limited number of artist faculty members would face in providing opportunities to a wide range of students...
...have been other Overseers similarly impassioned: I think of Dick Oldenburg, the former head or the Museum of Modern Art and of American Sotheby’s and last year’s president of the Overseers, who was no mean arts advocate himself, especially in the visual arts...
...provide that money for that purpose. In the shorter, more practical run, however, the issue is faculty review. All over Harvard, students and faculty have shown a yearning for the arts and for the granting and receiving of credit for arts practice. It happens in the music department, in Visual and Environmental Studies, in English. But it all seems sort of haphazard...