President Biden awards National Medal of Arts to artists including Mark Bradford, Carrie Mae Weems and Alex Katz
The National Medal of Arts was first established by Congress in 1984. past recipients include the artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, James Turrell, Maya Lin, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Whitten, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly and Judith Baca.
