The committee is returning after a 5-year hiatus, when the board disbanded in protest during the Trump administration
as co-chairs of the revived President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities on Thursday. The board includes a panel of of members that, per the White House, include “prominent artists, scholars, and philanthropists who have demonstrated a serious commitment to the arts and humanities” that serves as an advisory board to Biden on cultural policy.
The committee is returning after a five-year hiatus — the board disbanded during the Trump administration in protest of the former president’s response to thein Charlottesville, Virginia. At the time, Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” of the riot that left one dead. Biden signed an executive order in September to revive the committee, which was created in 1982 under former president Ronald Reagan as part of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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