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Foundation for the Arts, Religion and Culture
By Finley Eversole

THE Foundation for the Arts, Religion and Culture came into being in October, 1961. Its creation was the result of the thinking and the combined efforts of a number of persons including Paul Tillich, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Denis de Rougemont,

The two articles on "The Clown" in this issue by Professor Zucker and Dean Miller were first presented in New York by the Foundation described below. Finley Eversole has served with the National Student Christian Federation, Motive Magazine, and the Department of Church Building and Architecture, National Council of Churches. He is the editor of the volume Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts, 1962. ARC is the kind of important and struggling venture that needs all the publicity and assistance it can get. All those who would like further information can address Mr. Eversole at the Foundation.-Ed.

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Amos N. Wilder, Marcel Breuer, Truman B. Douglass, Stanley R. Hopper, James Luther Adams, Nathan Scott, Marvin Halverson, Alexander Schemann, and others.

The purpose of the Foundation is to initiate and foster collaboration among the arts, religious expressions, and contemporary culture. ARC's Society of Fellows includes representatives from all fields of the arts, Christian (Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox), Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu religions, and a wide range of other cultural professions, including physics, law, psychology, philosophy, and economics.

From the diverse viewpoints represented within the Foundation have come a number of statements as to ARC's objectives. The long-range objectives have been variously defined as: working for a truly human culture; fostering those energies that are right for a synthesis into a new living culture; promoting cultural dialogue across the Atlantic and between East and West; discovering criteria by which effective communication can take place between art, religion, and technology.

The work of the Foundation is carried on in several ways. One recent and rapidly growing activity of the Foundation is the Wine Cellar Conversation; groups of fifteen to thirty persons meet periodically over a number of months to explore a topic or an area of the arts. Wine Cellar groups are now meeting in a dozen cities across the United States, in Europe, and in the Orient.

The Foundation's periodical, ARC Directions, is the chief means by which findings, excerpts from Wine Cellar Conversations, and exploratory articles reach a broader public.

ARC also holds a number of public events each year, including lectures and discussions of the arts, demonstration performances, conferences, and joint participation in full-scale artistic productions.

Forthcoming plans of the Foundation call for annual seminars to be held at the Wave Hill estate, a new ecological and cultural center owned by the City of New York. This fall ARC will premier the National Educational Television film, Dialogue: Martin Buber and Israel. We are also happy to be able to announce the institution of the Paul Tillich Commemorative Lectureship. The first set of lectures is scheduled to be held in New Harmony, Indiana, in the spring of 1968. Other plans call for an association of the Foundation with the work of university student movements.

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The officers of the Foundation are: Stanley R. Hopper, President; Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Vice President; Denis de Rougemont, Vice President; Luther Noss, Vice President; Amos N. Wilder, Vice President; Truman B. Douglass, Chairman, Board of Directors; Alfred R. Clark, Treasurer; David H. C. Read, Secretary; Finley Eversole, Acting Director.

Requests for additional information should be addressed to: Foundation for the Arts, Religion and Culture, 921 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10021.