Bruce Springsteen, Gladys Knight, and Mindy Kaling are among artists to whom President Biden will present awards at a White House on Tuesday. The National Medals of Arts recognize people who have “helped to define and enrich our nation’s cultural legacy.”
The National Medals of Arts recognize people who have “helped to define and enrich our nation’s cultural legacy,” endowment chair Maria Rosario Jackson said in a statement.
Other winners of 2021 National Medals of Arts include Kaling, the comedic actress and writer whose work was featured in NBC’s “The Office,” which was set in Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pa., and Knight, the veteran singer who, the endowment said, created music that “inspired generations of artists.
Also being honored on Tuesday are recipients of the 2021 National Humanities Medals, from the National Endowment for the Humanities, whose work, according toWhitehead, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, will receive the humanities award in addition to poet and author Richard Blanco, social historian Earl Lewis, novelists Ann Patchett and Amy Tan, writer Tara Westover, biographer Walter Isaacson, educator Henrietta Mann, Native America Calling, and anthropologist Johnnetta Betsch Cole,...
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