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New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70: Staff, Programs and Financial Report

Corporate Author
New York State Council on the Arts
Date
1970
Subjects
Groups
Group dates
1960 -
Group location
New York City
Group
New York State Council on the Arts

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 York State 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 Jones Eric Larrabee Mrs. David Levene Arthur Levitt, Jr. Alwin Nikolais Frederick 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 Director Arthur J. Kerr, Assistant Director Richard d'Anjou, Performing Arts Program Director Peter Bradley, Film Program Director Vinnette Carroll, Ghetto Arts Program Director Kenneth Dewey, Director of Program Development Allon Schoener, Visual Arts Program Director Claire I. Monaghan, Office Manager Constance Eiseman, Educational Program Associate Trudie Grace, Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator Tema Harnick, Museum Aid Program Associate Lucy Kostelanetz, Museum Aid Program Associate Doris Luhrs, Touring Program Associate Rudolph Nashan, Performing Arts Program Associate Ellen 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's theatre in the Touring Program brought Council expenditures to $562,335. The budget increased to $771,895 in 1965-66, with the Council contributing to 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.

1967-68

1968-69

1969-70

Funds received

NYS

State Purposes Fund

$1,305,285

$1,891,861

$2,206,474

Local Assistance Fund

592,300

600,000

Miscellaneous Appropriations Funds

50,000

U.S. Government (National Council on the Arts grant)

39,383

30,909

36,363

Total funds received

$1,936,968

$2,522,770

2,292,837

Personal Service

Staff

101,846

232,753

265,824

Temporary help

34,039

8,750

5,000

Maintenance and operation

71,660

154,790

161,375

Programs

Festival Program

200,000

140,000

Film Program

46,260

60,000

45,000

Financial Research

11,500

Ghetto Arts Program

300,000

350,000

300,000 (1)

Museum Aid Program

Council Members

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

$1,305,285

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New York State Council on the Arts. New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report 1969-70: Staff, Programs and Financial Report. 1970.

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Summary

The New York State Council on the Arts annual report 1969–70 lists programs in performing arts, film and visual arts and documents the agency's creation in 1960 with a $50,000 study grant and its establishment as a permanent State agency the following year with a $450,000 operating budget. The report names Council and past members and staff, including Executive Director John B. Hightower and program directors. It records that State funds and a National Endowment for the Arts grant raised the budget to $1,554,477 in 1966–67 and provides a financial statement of receipts and disbursements for the three-year period ended March 31, 1970, with tabulated funds received and program expenditures for 1967–70.

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