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Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, a writer, activist, and television interviewer and producer, is known for her involvement in the fields of art, design, architecture and public policy. She has held public positions in the US, including Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs in New York City,〔New York Times, Corrections, Published June 1, 2002, Retrieved November 12, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/01/nyregion/c-corrections-334103.html〕 on the board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts,〔Commission of Fine Arts, CFA Members Since 1910, Retrieved November 12, 2013. http://www.cfa.gov/about/bios/members.html〕 and as a Commissioner of the American Battle Monuments Commission.〔Thomas E. Luebke, ed., ''Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts'' (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 2013): Appendix B, p. 543.〕 ==Biography== Diamonstein-Spielvogel was a White House Assistant, and helped create the White House Fellows and the Presidential Scholars Program. She was the first Director of Cultural Affairs in New York City, and was the longest serving Landmarks Commissioner, serving under four New York City Mayors. She has also served as a Member of the NYC Cultural Affairs Commission, where she was Chair/Founder of the Mayor's Awards of Arts and Culture, and was a Commissioner on the NYC Art Commission (now the Public Design Commission). She is currently the Chair of the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center and the NYC Landmarks50 Alliance, and the Vice Chair of the N.Y. State Council on the Arts. In September 2013, she was elected a Democratic National Committeewoman from New York State for a four-year term. Diamonstein-Spielvogel was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,〔University of Texas Archives, President Reagan's Speeches, Appointment of Two Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council June 2, 1987, Retrieved November 12, 2013. http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/060287f.html〕 where she served as Chair of the subcommittee that commissioned all of the original art created for the museum. In 1992, she was appointed to the United States Commission of Fine Arts by President Bill Clinton, and was the first woman Vice Chair of the CFA.〔http://www.governor.ny.gov/archive/paterson/press/press_0408084.html〕 Since 1995, Diamonstein-Spielvogel has been the Chair of the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center (HLPC), creating a Cultural Medallion program documenting notable occurrences, distinguished individuals and other important aspects of New York City’s cultural, economic, political and social history. Among other programs, the HLPC initiated, created, designed and financed all of the terra cotta street signs in each of New York City's Historic Districts. In 2012, she became the Chair of NYC Landmarks50, a group collaborating to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Law (see below). She was a founding board member of the High Line, a disused elevated rail line, which has been transformed into a mile-long public park. President Barack Obama named her a Commissioner of the American Battle Monuments Commission, which has responsibilities related to the design, construction, and maintenance of military memorials throughout the world.〔 In 2010, Diamonstein-Spielvogel was appointed a director of the Trust for the National Mall in Washington D.C.. In July 2013, she was named to lead the American delegation in Busan, Korea and was the keynote speaker at the ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of the armistice of the Korean War, attended by leaders and veterans of 21 participant nations. Diamonstein-Spielvogel served as an interviewer/producer for seven television series about the arts, architecture, design, crafts, and public policy for the Arts & Entertainment Network, and other programs for national networks including CBS and NBC. Nearly two hundred of her television interviews are now available on iTunes U and YouTube, digitized by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive at Duke University. Diamonstein-Spielvogel has also been a contributing author to publications including ''The New York Times'', ''Vogue'', ''Ladies Home Journal'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', the ''Partisan Review'', ''Art News'', and many others. In 2012, she was named the Chair of NYC Landmarks50 Alliance,〔http://www.nyclandmarks50.org/about.html〕 a voluntary group of over 150 member organizations, collaborating to commemorate the 50th anniversary (April 19, 2015) of the NYC landmarks law. The Alliance is a diverse and growing consortium of organizations. With membership ranging from the Apollo Theatre to the Asia Society, the Bowne House to the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New York Landmarks Conservancy to the New York Road Runners, Pratt Institute to PRISA, and the Alice Austen House to Casita Maria, the Alliance represents tens of thousands of New Yorkers. The celebration was initiated in April 2013 at the Queens Museum (the largest of the 5 boroughs, and the most diverse county in the U.S.); tours, exhibits, lectures, panels, symposiums, poetry readings, races, and much more will commemorate the 50th Anniversary. In May 2015, she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Gracie Mansion Conservancy by Mayor Bill DeBlasio. In June 2015, she was named to the Advisory Committee of the National Eisenhower Memorial; the Memorial will be designed by architect Frank Gehry, and built adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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