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Biden taps Lady Gaga to co-chair an arts advisory committee that dissolved under Trump

Lady Gaga performs during President Biden’s inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. She’ll co-chair Biden’s arts advisory committee.

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Lady Gaga performs during President Biden’s inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. She’ll co-chair Biden’s arts advisory committee.

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President Biden announced a star-studded list of members for an arts advisory board that fell apart under the Trump administration, with Lady Gaga, Shonda Rhimes and George Clooney among the 24 entertainers and academics he intends to appoint.

Gaga, the singer-songwriter whose legal name is Stefani Germanotta, will co-chair the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities alongside producer Bruce Cohen. The committee will be responsible for advising the president on cultural policy, and the members were chosen due to their “serious commitment to the arts and humanities,” the White House said in a statement Thursday.

President Ronald Reagan created the board in 1982, allowing artists and academics to advise government leaders on programs to support arts and culture. In the past, the committee helped organize the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards and founded the Kennedy Center’s Turnaround Arts program, which provides low-income schools around the country with arts education services.

After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, several members of the committee quit. The rest resigned the following summer after then-President Trump refused to condemn the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

In an open letter to Trump, the remaining committee members wrote, “We cannot sit idly by, the way that your West Wing advisors have, without speaking out against your words and actions,” and called on him to resign his office. Following the mass resignation, Trump said he was planning to dissolve the committee anyway.

Last September, Biden issued an executive order to restart the committee, calling the arts and humanities “essential to the well-being, health, vitality, and democracy of our Nation.” The move is part of a broader effort to restore arts programs after they were gutted under the former president.

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