Programs 1969-1970

Performing Arts: Touring Program, Composer in Performance, Professionals Teach the Performing Arts, Special Programs, Festival Program Poets and Writers Program Film and Television: Film Program Visual Arts: Museum Aid Program, Traveling Exhibitions, Experiments in Presentation, Critic’s Choice Ghetto Arts Program Technical Assistance Program Development New YorkState Award Publications

Council Members

Seymour H. Knox, Chairman Henry Alien Moe, Vice Chairman Max L. Arons Hy Faine Thomas P. F. Moving William R. Hudgins Louis dark JonesE ric Larrabee Mrs. David Levene Arthur Levitt, Jr. Alwin NikolaisFrederick W. Richmond Mrs. Richard Rodgers Aline Saarinen Frank Stanton

Past Council Members Reginald Alien Mrs. Harmar Brereton Cass Canfield Angus Duncan Theodore Hancock Mrs. W. Averell Harriman Wallace K. Harrison Helen Hayes August Heckscher David M. Keiser Alfred J. Manuti (deceased) Richard B. K. McLanathan Richard Rodgers Lewis A. Swyer Hale Woodruff

Staff John B. Hightower, Executive DirectorArthur J. Kerr, Assistant DirectorRichard d'Anjou, Performing Arts Program DirectorPeter Bradley, Film Program DirectorVinnette Carroll, Ghetto Arts Program DirectorKenneth Dewey, Director of Program DevelopmentAllon Schoener, Visual Arts Program DirectorClaire I. Monaghan, Office ManagerConstance Eiseman, Educational Program AssociateTrudie Grace, Traveling Exhibitions CoordinatorTema Harnick, Museum Aid Program AssociateLucy Kostelanetz, Museum Aid Program AssociateDoris Luhrs, Touring Program AssociateRudolph Nashan, Performing Arts Program AssociateEllen Thurston, Publications Associate

Program Assistants and Secretaries Anne Atlas Maralin Bennici Marion Bratcher Rose Flamm James Fluellen Lucille Fulton Lee Harper Barbara Haspiel Elaine Naramore Veronica Paracchini Theresa Redd Rhoda Ribner Betsy Drew Robertson Paula Silberberg Joyce Teixeira

Special Consultants Meyer Braiterman, M.J. Gladstone, Rubin L. Gorewitz, Donald Harper, Phillip Hyde, Barbara Lawrence, Anita MacShane, Susan Majors, Marc Primus, Mae Reid, Edgenie Rice, Squadron & Plesent, Anne Wadsworth

Financial Statement

Receipts and disbursements of funds, three-year period ended March 31,1970.

Created as a temporary commission in 1960 with a study grant of $50,000, the New York State Council on the Arts was established as a permanent State agency the following year with an operating budget of $450,000. In that year a performing arts Touring Program, a Traveling Exhibitions program, and Technical Assistance were instituted, and 1962 saw the expansion of these programs and the institution of the Special Projects program. The Council's budget for 1962 reached $560,250. In 1963-64, the Council expended $534,219; and in 1964-65 new Young Artists and Poetry Programs and the inclusion of children'stheatre in the Touring Program brought Councilexpenditures to $562,335. The budget increased to$771,895 in 1965-66, with the Council contributingto the first Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today and starting a program of performing arts in schools. In 1966-67 new State funds for the Museum Aid Program and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts dramatically raised the Council's budget to $1,554,477. A detailed breakdown of Council expenditures for the three following years appears on the facing page.

Council Members

Seymour H. Knox, Chairman
Henry Alien Moe, Vice Chairman
Mrs. Richard Rodgers
Aline Saarinen
Frank Stanton 
 

$1,305,285