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Biden faucets Lady Gaga, George Clooney, Jennifer Garner, others for arts committee

WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday introduced a star-studded slate of members for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a panel of artists, museum professionals, lecturers and philanthropists that serves as an advisory board to President Joe Biden on tradition points.

The group might be co-chaired by Bruce Cohen, an Academy Award-winning producer recognized for movies corresponding to “American Beauty” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” and pop megastar and Grammy Award winner Lady Gaga, also called Stefani Germanotta, in line with the White House.

Others tapped to the committee embrace musician Jon Batiste, who carried out on the White House state dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron in December, tv producer Shonda Rhimes, Grammy Award winner Joe Walsh, and actors George Clooney, Jennifer Garner, Troy Kotsur and Kerry Washington. It additionally contains one former member of Congress: Democrat Steve Israel, who represented New York within the House.

Tsione Wolde-Michael, the committee’s government director, says it’s “positioned to do meaningful work that will positively impact the arts, libraries, museums, and public humanities work in communities across the country.”

Many of the members appointed to the humanities and humanities committee have beforehand partnered with Biden on key points, corresponding to Gaga on the “It’s On Us” marketing campaign to battle sexual assault on faculty campuses. Veteran tv producer Marta Kauffman, who was additionally chosen for the committee, hosted first girl Jill Biden at her house for a fundraiser in September.

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