18 receive OFA fellowships
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Office of the Dean for the Arts and Humanities announced the 2012 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship. This program supports the artistic development of students demonstrating unusual accomplishment and/or evidence of significant artistic promise. The program is administered by the OFA and the Office of Career Services (OCS), and made possible with the support of the Office of the President at Harvard University. Council on the Arts members at the time of selection were Diana Sorensen (chair), Jones Professor of African-American Music and Dean of Arts and Humanities; Federico Cortese, senior lecturer on music and conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; S. Allen Counter, director, Harvard Foundation; Deborah Foster, senior lecturer in folklore and mythology; Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Jill Johnson, senior lecturer on music and director, Office for the Arts Dance Program; Ruth Stella Lingford, professor...