Joan Myers Brown accepts National Medal of the Arts from President Obama!

Watch Joan Myers Brown Accepting the National Medal
of the Arts
 
Watch PHILADANCO  Founder/Executive Artistic Director Joan Myers Brown accepting the National Medal of the Arts -- the nation's highest civic honor for excellence in the arts
-- at a ceremony that took place today at the White House.
 

 Click here to view the ceremony.  
 
The 2012 National Medal of Arts recipients are:
 
Herb Alpert, Musician and Producer
Lin Arison, Arts Patron

Joan Myers Brown, Dance Company Founder and Director 
 
Renée Fleming, Soprano
   
Ernest Gaines, Author
    
Ellsworth Kelly, Visual Artist
          
Tony Kushner, Playwright
         
George Lucas, Director and Producer
          
Elaine May, Writer, Director, and Performer
         
Laurie Olin, Landscape Architect
          
Allen Toussaint, Musician and Producer      

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