National Humanities Medal recipients
– 2022: Philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, poet Joy Harjo, principal and educator Robin Harris, writer Juan Felipe Herrera, Indigenous higher education administrator Robert Martin, writer and historian Jon Meacham, higher education academic administrator Ruth J. Simmons, Chinese literature scholar Pauline Yu and Appalshop, a community arts and programming center
– 2023: Chef and author Anthony Bourdain (posthumous), actor and literacy advocate LeVar Burton, cartoonist and author Roz Chast, scholar and Hispanic literature publisher Nicolás Kanellos, scholar and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, filmmaker Dawn Porter, playwright, screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin, social justice philanthropist Darren Walker, anthropologist and cultural leader Rosita Worl and the philanthropic Mellon Foundation
National Medal of Arts recipients
– 2022: Artist Ruth Asawa (posthumous), photographer Randy A. Batista, landscape photographer Clyde Butcher, musical artist and producer Melissa “Missy” Elliott, musician Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenez, actress, director and philanthropist Eva Longoria, actress and singer Idina Menzel, musician Herbert I. Ohta, arts leader Bruce Sagan, visual artist Carrie Mae Weems and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
– 2023: Artist Mark Bradford, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, producer Bruce Cohen, artist Alex Katz, arts leader Jo Carole Lauder, filmmaker Spike Lee, singer and actress Queen Latifah, singer Selena Quintanilla (posthumous) and filmmaker Steven Spielberg