 D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities logo | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1968 |
| Jurisdiction | District of Columbia |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Agency executive |
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| Website | dcarts.dc.gov |
The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) is an agency of the District of Columbia government. As of October 2022[update], the Interim Executive Director is David Markey. [2] CAH was created as an outgrowth of the U.S. Congress Act that established the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities of 1965. The Foundation provided for four operating federal agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.[3]
CAH's office is in the Navy Yard neighborhood of southeast Washington, D.C. The current[when?] chairperson of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities is business leader and philanthropist, Reggie Van Lee and the current[when?] vice chairperson is business leader and board director, Maggie FitzPatrick. The current[when?] commissioners, appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser and confirmed by D.C. Council, are: Stacie Lee Banks, Cora Masters Barry, Maggie FitzPatrick (Vice Chair CAH and chair, Public Arts Committee), Quanice Floyd (chair, IDEA Committee), Natalie Hopkinson, Kymber Menkiti (treasurer and chair, finance committee), Maria Hall Rooney, Carla Sims, Hector Torres (secretary and chair, Arts Education Committee), and Gretchen Wharton (chair, grants committee) [4]
- ^ "David Markey | dcarts".
- ^ "Commission on the Arts and Humanities". Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
- ^ "Federal Register of the National Archives"
- ^ CAH Officers and Committees