Speakers Ben Cameron: Arts administrator
Ben Cameron runs the arts granting program at the Doris Duke Foundation, focusing on live theater, dance and jazz.
Why you should listen to him:
Ben Cameron is the Program Director, Arts, at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York, where he supervises a $13 million grants program aimed at the theatre, contemporary dance, jazz and presenting fields. Grants happen in three main areas: commissioning and distribution of new works; building strong arts organizations; and supporting national arts organizations.
During 13 seasons, Cameron has been a panelist on the opera quiz during the Live from the Metropolitan radio broadcasts from New York. He has also served as a member of the Tony Awards Nominating Committee.
"Ben Cameron is one of the most articulate proponents and supporters of the performing arts."pamsterling, YouTube
Quotes by Ben Cameron
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“[We now have] expectations of personalization and customization that the live performing arts — which have set curtain times, set venues, attendant inconveniences of travel, parking and the like — simply cannot meet.”
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“All of us are engaged in a seismic, fundamental realignment of culture and communications, a realignment that is shaking and decimating the newspaper industry, the magazine industry, the book and publishing industry and more.”
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“The arts, whatever they do, whenever they call us together, invite us to look at our fellow human being with generosity and curiosity.”
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“We must seize and celebrate the power of the arts to shape our individual and national characters, and especially characters of the young people, who all too often are subjected to bombardment of sensation, rather than digested experience.”
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Ben Cameron: The true power of the performing arts
- 12:44 Posted: Sep 2010
Ben Cameron on the Web
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