A Year Long Festival

Mayman and her staff at the Office of the Arts will be extremely busy this year, as they begin a "year long festival to the arts" honoring the office's 10th anniversary.

Mayman says that the celebrations will include bringing back alumni who went on in the arts--such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 and Peter Sellars '80, the new artistic director at the Boston Shakespeare Company.

The office will also exhibit photographs of its events and will publish a series of interviews conducted this past summer with top Harvard administrators--Presidents Bok and Horner, Dean of students Archie C. Epps III, and Dean of the College John B. Fox--who describe their interests in the arts.

The festival will culminate later this spring with a week featuring a rapid fire succession of "Learning From Performers Programs" and an arts day with different student performances.

The festival, Mayman says, follows her office's overall purpose of complementing a liberal arts education. "We want to help bring out talents rather than stuff in skills," as well as help develop students' "perceptibilities of the arts," she adds. A person's intellectual growth includes "learning to see stuff as well as learning to read," she continues.

The 10th anniversary will give the office "a chance to pause...and not be consumed with hectic daily activities." Horner says, adding that they will "look at the history of the arts at Harvard and get a vision of where [everything] will be going"