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The Community Arts Council Movement:
History, Opinions, Issues
Nina Freedlander Gibans
Foreword by Louis Harris
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Initially published in 1982, this book serves as an historical survey of the community arts council movement, as well as an analysis of programs, practices, and trends. Research for the book includes analysis of original source documents from arts councils, as well as discussions with more than 100 members and leaders of arts councils nationwide, including leaders of the National Endowment of the Arts and the American Arts Alliance.
Gibans has spent her life as an arts advocate, administrator, author, and teacher, as well as a community volunteer. She has served on the predecessor board of the Americans for the Arts, and was the director of the Cleveland Area Arts Council for seven years. She has held staff positions at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Children’s Museum. She has published and read poetry from early childhood days, and once shared a stage with Allen Ginsberg.
Gibans has served on many panels, board, and committees of local, state, and national cultural and civic organizations. She has received a national award for arts management, individual grants for research, writing, and media interpretation of arts issues, and was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award from Laurel School in 2000.
Gibans attended Wellesley College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Case Western Reserve University. She has been married to architect Jim Gibans for more than 50 years, and lives in Northeast Ohio. |
