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