David W. Lutz; Arts Management Consultant to Government
David W. Lutz, an arts management consultant to government and a partner in a private consulting firm, has died of the complications of AIDS.
His partner, Elizabeth Kennedy, said last week that he died Sept. 7 in a Sherman Oaks hospital. He was 35.
Lutz spent most of his career in California, as executive director of the Santa Monica Arts Commission from 1983 to 1986 and as special assistant to the director of the California Arts Council from 1980 to 1983.
In Santa Monica, he was credited with arts and sculpture projects and community dance programs.
In the private sector, Lutz and Kennedy proposed master arts plans for the cities of San Diego and Santa Barbara and did evaluations for Kern and San Bernardino counties.
Born in Cincinnati, Lutz served earlier on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in Washington.
Survivors include his parents and a brother.
A memorial service will be held at Gates, Kingsley & Gates Chapel in Santa Monica at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
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