2008-08-28
The Alvin H. Reiss Arts Management Collection
Alvin H. Reiss, perhaps the most prolific writer on the business of the arts, has donated his vast collection of materials on the arts and arts management to The Ohio State University Fine Arts Library, in Columbus, in support of the Department of Art Education's graduate-level Cultural Policy and Arts Administration Program. The collection includes thousands of books, periodicals, reports, studies, clippings, tapes, and papers of historical significance.
Reiss has played a pioneering role in the arts and other nonprofit areas as educator, author, consultant, and program innovator. He is the editor and publisher of "Arts Management," a journal he co-founded with Alvin Toffler in 1962, and he is the author of six books, more than 500 magazine articles, and numerous studies and reports.
Since 1985, his "On the Arts" column has appeared monthly in "Fund Raising Management." Although his career is still going strong, Reiss has decided to move his office of many years and wants to be sure the vast materials he has collected will not be lost to the field. He chose Ohio State to house his collection because of the vibrancy and growing reputation of its Cultural Policy and Arts Administration Program as well as its excellent library system. Reiss's collection provides a rare chronological view of the development of the arts industry from the 1960s to the present. Because Reiss has worked inside the field through this period, his materials provide a unique history of the arts. There are many books dealing with such topics as cultural policy, economics, and sociology and such pragmatic aspects of arts management as fund raising, audience development, publicity, board development, and financial administration. In addition, the materials include many internal papers, proposals, feasibility studies, and reports on topics of key concern that have not been widely available. Included among the items are a 1965 proposal
for a major national rural arts development program, completed questionnaires from the first-ever chamber of commerce survey on arts involvement in 1966, a 1969 study of labor relations in the performing arts, and the proceedings from the first statewide conference on community arts councils in 1964. There are four studies alone on Chicago and the arts from 1966, 1977, 1986, and 1991. And there is a 1963 Arts Management survey of major corporations and the arts as well as data on the first business in the arts awards in 1965.
The collection has sets of many arts periodicals, including some that are no longer published, such as "The Arts Reporting Service," "Government and the Arts," "Arts in Society," and "Cultural Affairs." Other items of interest include taped radio interviews by Reiss with such key figures in arts development as McNeil Lowry of the Ford Foundation; Carl Maas of Standard Oil; Kathryn Bloom, a pioneer figure in arts and education; and Amyas Ames, the former Lincoln Center chairman who headed America's first major arts advocacy program.
Details: http://arted.osu.edu
Since 1985, his "On the Arts" column has appeared monthly in "Fund Raising Management." Although his career is still going strong, Reiss has decided to move his office of many years and wants to be sure the vast materials he has collected will not be lost to the field. He chose Ohio State to house his collection because of the vibrancy and growing reputation of its Cultural Policy and Arts Administration Program as well as its excellent library system. Reiss's collection provides a rare chronological view of the development of the arts industry from the 1960s to the present. Because Reiss has worked inside the field through this period, his materials provide a unique history of the arts. There are many books dealing with such topics as cultural policy, economics, and sociology and such pragmatic aspects of arts management as fund raising, audience development, publicity, board development, and financial administration. In addition, the materials include many internal papers, proposals, feasibility studies, and reports on topics of key concern that have not been widely available. Included among the items are a 1965 proposal
for a major national rural arts development program, completed questionnaires from the first-ever chamber of commerce survey on arts involvement in 1966, a 1969 study of labor relations in the performing arts, and the proceedings from the first statewide conference on community arts councils in 1964. There are four studies alone on Chicago and the arts from 1966, 1977, 1986, and 1991. And there is a 1963 Arts Management survey of major corporations and the arts as well as data on the first business in the arts awards in 1965.
The collection has sets of many arts periodicals, including some that are no longer published, such as "The Arts Reporting Service," "Government and the Arts," "Arts in Society," and "Cultural Affairs." Other items of interest include taped radio interviews by Reiss with such key figures in arts development as McNeil Lowry of the Ford Foundation; Carl Maas of Standard Oil; Kathryn Bloom, a pioneer figure in arts and education; and Amyas Ames, the former Lincoln Center chairman who headed America's first major arts advocacy program.
Details: http://arted.osu.edu
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