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Orange County businessman Harvey Stearn has been reelected to a second year as chairman of the California Arts Council, but vice chairwoman Joanne Kozberg lost out to Sacramento arts supporter Joyce Pollack in her bid for a second term. Both women work for Republican Sen. Pete Wilson’s campaign office, Kozberg as a paid consultant. Kozberg also is vice chairwoman of the Music Center Board of Governors. According to Arts Council Director Robert Reid, Kozberg’s unseating was “more a reflection of the desire to rotate” the residence of vice chairpersons from Southern to Northern California than a reflection on her work.
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