Obama names art mentors
(China Daily)
2009-11-05 13:07
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Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured), Alfre Woodard, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, and George C Wolfe are among the artists whom US President Barack Obama has named to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, according to a report in Variety. The committee will advise the president on elevating the role of the arts in society.
The committee will also include Teresa Heinz, Bryan Lourd, Yo-Yo Ma, Liz Manne, Thom Mayne, Andy Spahn, Jill Cooper Udall, Anna Wintour, and Damian Woetzel.
As previously reported, producers George Stevens Jr and Margo Lion are the committee's co-chairmen, and Mary Schmidt Campbell, who has served as the dean of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts since 1991, is the committee's vice-chairman.