Elliott Sroka Appointed Director of C.W. Post Institute
for Arts & Culture
December 22, 1998 -- Dr. Elliott Sroka, an internationally known producer
and arts administrator, has been appointed director of the Institute for
Arts & Culture at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in
Brookville. The newly established Institute - designed to fully integrate
the arts in to the Long Island University community - will utilize the
campus's extensive professional arts resources, including Hillwood Art
Museum and Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.
Dr. Sroka, in close work with C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
administrators and faculty, will explore academic collaborations and interdisciplinary
courses which incorporate the arts. Through cultural outreach programs
and a host of academic activities on the campus, the Institute for Arts
& Culture will serve as a clearinghouse for information on professional
and academic arts, developing lectures, publications and programs for the
Long Island University community and the region as a whole.
"A major goal of the Institute is to incorporate professional performances
and workshops with guest artists into the curriculum," said Dr. Sroka.
"Tilles Center hosts hundreds of world famous artists each year. It
is important to bridge the gap between today's top professionals and the
professionals of tomorrow - the students of Long Island University's C.W.
Post Campus."
Tilles Center, a vital part of the college experience at C.W. Post,
welcomes world class performers throughout the school year. With collaborative
programs between Tilles Center and C.W. Post's Hillwood Art Museum, School
of Visual and Performing Arts and School of Education, Dr. Sroka is determined
to make arts integral to the lives of Long Island University students,
faculty and staff.
"We already collaborate in programs which link the arts to obvious
disciplines: arts appreciation, arts education, arts management, art therapy
and public policy in the arts," said Dr. Sroka. "The goal of
the Institute is to expand these offerings and explore ways in which the
arts affect nearly every program offered at C.W. Post."
Dr. Sroka, a Forest Hills resident, has spent the last decade as executive
director of Tilles Center, Long Island's major performing arts center.
In that capacity, he has brought the concert hall to prominence as one
of the nation's finest regional arts centers, with internationally heralded
productions including an historic Vatican Concert commemorating the Holocaust
and an annual Carnegie Hall performance of Handel's Messiah. Former director
of the performing arts program at New York's Cathedral of St. John the
Divine, Sroka today is a panelist for the New York State Council on the
Arts and an active member of the International Society of Performing Arts
Administrators. In addition to his leadership of the Institute for Arts
& Culture, he will continue as executive director of Tilles Center
and as co-director of the arts management program at C.W. Post. He will
also lend his expertise to oversee programs in the Hillwood Art Museum,
the nationally accredited art museum on the C.W. Post Campus.
The C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University is located on Northern
Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville, New York.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
