Joe Biden Signs Order Relaunching President’s Committee On The Arts And The Humanities
deadline.comJoe Biden signed an executive order on Friday to relaunch the President’s Committee on The Arts and the Humanities, an advisory group that has been dormant since a highly publicized standoff between its members and Donald Trump.
The purpose of the committee will be “to inform and support the national engagement with Americans necessary to advance the arts, the humanities, and museum and library services,” according to the text of the order.
The committee will include the chairs of of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, as well as 25 non-government members appointed by the president.
A chair or two co-chairs will be designated among the non-government members. Among the duties of the committee will be to enhance the federal support of the arts.
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