Charles Mark

October 12, 1927 (age 70)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Charles Christopher Mark is remembered for his work with the National Endowment for the Arts as well as with other foundations for advancing the arts. Early in his career, he worked at the Wisconsin Welfare Council and the Beloit United Givers Fund before joining the Winston-Salem Arts Council as executive director in 1957. In 1961 he founded and began serving as executive director of the Greater St. Louis Arts and Education Council. In the mid-1960s he was a special consultant to the White House cultural adviser through the National Council on the Arts. After a brief stint with the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, he became director of planning analysis with the National Endowment for the Arts from 1967 to 1969. After a stint as president of the Los Angeles Music Center, he began a biweekly newsletter about the art world. Based in Washington, D. C., the Arts Reporting Service was launched in 1970 and operated for twenty years. He also found time to work with the National Public Radio and teach at the American University and at George Washington University. He wrote several books, including the 1960 novel Run Away Home. The author's first novel is about a young man "crossing the line from adolescence to manhood" in a single 24-hour period. Mark’s other writings were A Study of Cultural Policy in the United States and The Mark Report: A Study and Evaluation of the Virgin Museum’s Statewide Programs (1970). His last book was Reluctant Bureaucrats: The Struggle to Establish the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Charles Christopher Mark was born on October 12, 1927, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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Charles Christopher Mark is remembered for his work with the National Endowment for the Arts as well as with other foundations for advancing the arts. Early in his career, he worked at the Wisconsin Welfare Council and the Beloit United Givers Fund before joining the Winston-Salem Arts Council as executive director in 1957. In 1961 he founded and began serving as executive director of the Greater St. Louis Arts and Education Council. In the mid-1960s he was a special consultant to the White House cultural adviser through the National Council on the Arts.

After a brief stint with the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, he became director of planning analysis with the National Endowment for the Arts from 1967 to 1969. After a stint as president of the Los Angeles Music Center, he began a biweekly newsletter about the art world. Based in Washington, D. C., the Arts Reporting Service was launched in 1970 and operated for twenty years. He also found time to work with the National Public Radio and teach at the American University and at George Washington University.

He wrote several books, including the 1960 novel Run Away Home. The author's first novel is about a young man "crossing the line from adolescence to manhood" in a single 24-hour period. Mark’s other writings were A Study of Cultural Policy in the United States and The Mark Report: A Study and Evaluation of the Virgin Museum’s Statewide Programs (1970). His last book was Reluctant Bureaucrats: The Struggle to Establish the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Charles Christopher Mark was truly recognized for the years which he spent at the National Endowment for the Arts as well as with other foundations. He is also known for his book Run Away Home.

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Reluctant Bureaucrats: The Struggle to Establish the National Endowment for the Arts Reluctant Bureaucrats: The Struggle to Establish the National Endowment for the Arts

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- Reluctant Bureaucrats: The Struggle to Establish the National Endowment for the Arts
  (Reluctant Bureaucrats by Charles Christopher Mark traces ...)
  1991
- Run Away Home 1960

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Reluctant Bureaucrats: The Struggle to Establish the National Endowment for the Arts

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