State Sen. Richard Cohen has landed on the national stage where arts and cultural policy matters are concerned.
President Barack Obama today named Cohen, DFL-St. Paul, to the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities (PCAH). Cohen, along with other new committee members announced today, will be sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden.
Other new PCAH members include world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Sarah Jessica Parker, the actress who starred in the television show Sex and the City.
Cohen has been an ardent arts supporter at the state Legislature during his seven terms in the Senate. He successfully pushed to have arts and cultural projects included in the dedicated sales tax increase amendment that was approved by Minnesota voters last November.
Cohen also supported Obama’s presidential candidacy early on when many Minnesota Democrats were supporting Hillary Clinton’s bid for the nomination.
The PCAH has been around since 1982. The group advances the White House’s arts and humanities objectives by working with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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