Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford Amongst Recipients of Nationwide Medals of Arts


Artists Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, Mark Bradford, and the late Ruth Asawa are amongst 20 artists who acquired the 2022 and 2023 Nationwide Medals of Arts on the White Home in the present day, October 21. Thought of probably the most prestigious award given to artists and humanities patrons by america federal authorities, the medals had been formally offered by President Joseph Biden in a non-public ceremony.

“The humanities enrich our lives, serving to us to ask questions, think about new prospects, and create group,” mentioned Maria Rosario Jackson, Chair of the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts, the impartial federal company that administers the award, in a press release. 

Different visible artists who acquired the award included the photographers Randy Batista and Clyde Butcher, documentarian Ken Burns, filmmakers Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg, and singer-actress Queen Latifah.

The 19 recipients of the 2022 and 2023 Nationwide Humanities Medals had been additionally honored on the identical ceremony. These included writers, historians, educators, philanthropic organizations, and filmmakers, together with the Potawatomi botanist and writer Robin Wall Kimmerer, the documentary filmmaker Daybreak Porter, and the late chef and writer Anthony Bourdain.

Learn on for the total listing of award recipients.

2022 Nationwide Medal of Arts Recipients

Ruth Asawa (posthumous), artist  

Randy A. Batista, photographer 

Clyde Butcher, panorama photographer 

Nation Music Corridor of Fame and Museum, museum and schooling middle 

Melissa “Missy” Elliott, artist and producer 

Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenez, musician 

Eva Longoria, actress, director, and philanthropist 

Idina Menzel, actress and singer 

Herbert I. Ohta, musician 

Bruce Sagan, arts chief 

Carrie Mae Weems, visible artist   

2023 Nationwide Medal of Arts Recipients

Mark Bradford, artist 

Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker 

Bruce Cohen, producer 

Alex Katz, artist 

Jo Carole Lauder, arts chief 

Spike Lee, filmmaker 

Queen Latifah, artist and actress 

Selena Quintanilla (posthumous), singer

Steven Spielberg, filmmaker

2022 Nationwide Humanities Medalists

Wallis Annenberg, philanthropist

Appalshop, group arts and programming middle

Pleasure Harjo, poet

Robin Harris, principal and educator

Juan Felipe Herrera, author

Robert Martin, administrator in Indigenous greater schooling

Jon Meacham, author and historian

Ruth J. Simmons, educational administrator in greater schooling

Pauline Yu, scholar of Chinese language literature

2023 Nationwide Humanities Medalists

Anthony Bourdain (posthumous), chef and writer

LeVar Burton, actor and literacy advocate

Roz Chast, cartoonist and writer

Nicolás Kanellos, scholar and writer of Hispanic literature

Robin Wall Kimmerer, scholar and writer

Mellon Basis, philanthropic group

Daybreak Porter, filmmaker

Aaron Sorkin, playwright, screenwriter, and director

Darren Walker, social justice philanthropist

Rosita Worl, anthropologist and cultural chief

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