Arts Legacy Committee Minutes and Activities

Arts Legacy Committee

At our May 14 Class Committee meeting, the Class voted to establish an Arts Legacy Committee, which would develop and review proposals for projects and potential donations to the Arts at the College, broadly identified as the Hop, the Hood and the Libraries.  The Committee will work with an endowment, which the Class Committee will establish within the context of our overall Class annual budget and current assets.   A separate budget subcommittee reviewed the budget on July 11, 2022 and recommended an endowment of $150,000, approved by the Class Committee at the August 6, 2022 meeting.  Spending scenarios.

Besides identifying potential projects, the Committee may identify potential Angels who could individually support the initiatives both separately and in conjunction with the Class.  Ultimately, the Arts Legacy Committee will make recommendations to the full Class Committee, for their approval and support.

Supporting teaching of the arts at Dartmouth is the focus of the Arts Legacy project. Love of the arts must begin for students at a much younger age. These days, art in any form is rarely taught in elementary or high school. Lithgow and many others hope to change that.

Stephen Colbert recently interviewed John Lithgow about a new PBS special, Art Happens Here, featuring Lithgow. Read more about Art Happens Here, watch the Colbert interview (part 1 and part 2, be sure to watch part 2 to the end - great joke told by Lithgow) and watch the PBS special.