PRESIDENT'S COMITTEE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES OVERFLOWS WITH CULTURAL POLICY EXPERTISE
Submitted by Tommer on November 3, 2009
Several stars of stage, screen and fashion runways will join the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a largely ceremonial, blue-ribbon group that advises President Obama on arts and cultural issues.
Yo-Yo Ma, who played at Obama’s inauguration, will join the panel, along with actor Edward Norton, “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker, actress and Democratic Party activist Kerry Washington, “Last King of Scotland” and “Good Morning Vietnam” star Forest Whitaker, Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour and movie and TV regular Alfre Woodard.