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Alberta Arthurs is a consultant and commentator active in the fields of culture, philanthropy and higher education. Trustee Dalton School, Hotchkiss School, 1975-1983, Pine Manor College, 1976-1981, Ellis School,1977-1982.

She was the Director for Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation for over a decade and prior to this position served as President and Professor of English at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Arthurs serves on numerous non-profit boards and advisory committees including the League of American Orchestras, Tribeca Film Institute, Philanthropy Committee of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University, Salzburg Global Seminar and the Century Association.

Board directors Techno-Serve, The Equitable Funds, Salzburg Seminar.

Achievements

• Alberta Bean Arthurs has been listed as a noteworthy foundation executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors Harbridge House, 1980-1982, Presbyterian-University Hospital, Pitts, 1979-1982, Pittsburgh Symphony Society, 1980-1982, Salzburg Seminar.

ALSO (Mailing) Alberta Bean Arthurs Rockefeller Found 420 5th Ave New York, New York 10018-2729 F C.

Connections

Married Edward Arthurs, December 20, 1960.

Background

Arthurs, Alberta Bean was born on December 20, 1932 in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Wellesley College, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1972.

Career

Editor, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Magazine, Boston, 1954-1956; director admissions, Eliot-Pearson School-Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1957-1959; instructor English, Eliot-Pearson School-Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1958-1962; instructor, lecturer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1964-1972; assistant professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1972-1973; dean, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1975; dean, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1975-1977; president, Professor of English, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, 1977-1982; director arts and humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, since 1982.

Member Council on Foreign Rels., Duquesne Club (Pittsburgh), Harvard Club of New York City (board directors 1987-1990), Signet Society of Cambridge. Children: Lee Michael, Daniel Jacob, Madeleine Hope.

Father:

Maurice Bean

Mother:

Eleanor Irene (Levenson) Bean

Spouse:

Edward Arthurs

child:

Madeleine Hope Arthurs

child:

Daniel Jacob Arthurs

child:

Lee Michael Arthurs

Eloquent essays on the vital meaning of art.

Arthurs is a senior fellow at the John Brademas Center at NYU, and DiNiscia is Deputy Director for Research and Strategic Initiatives at the Center.

Arthurs received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. Like Berger, several contributors underscore the political significance of the arts. Philosophy professor and ethicist K. Anthony Appiah asserts that art “readies us for our real lives, enlarges our political possibilities, connects us within and across identities.” For Zeyba Rahman and Hussein Rashid, the arts, speaking through the language of imagination, “can bring alive communities and urgent problems that are unfamiliar to us by creating a universal resonance and relatability.” The arts nurture individuals, just as with other forms of sustenance.

In this important collection, the editors gather a racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse group of more than two dozen eminent scholars, artists, professionals working in the field of arts and culture, and funders who support the arts. Her recent consulting clients include J.P. Morgan Chase, Brademas Center at New York University, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and the AG Foundation ,among others.

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“All people…yearn for beauty,” writes Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, “also long for grace, also have hearts as well as stomachs that need to be fed and filled. As music history scholar Karol Berger notes, “when you think that art is inessential and useless,” remember those artists who have been persecuted, marginalized, silenced, incarcerated, and killed because of the power of their creations.

in English from Bryn Mawr College.

foundation executive

Alberta Bean Arthurs, American Foundation executive. Daughter of Maurice and Eleanor Irene (Levenson) Bean. Dr. Arthurs served as Dean of Undergraduate Affairs and Acting Dean of Freshmen at Harvard College and Dean of Admissions, Financial Aid and Women’s Education at Radcliffe College.