"President Barack Obama has established a staff position in the White House to oversee arts and culture in the Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs under Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser, a White House official confirmed. Kareem Dale, right, a lawyer who last month was named special assistant to the president for disability policy, will hold the new position. Mr. Dale, who is partly blind, previously served as national disability director for the Obama campaign. He also served on the arts policy committee and the disability policy committee for Mr. Obama when he was a senator from Illinois."
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Obama establishes a staff position to oversee arts and culture
Read a bit more about it in the NY Times.
The President appointed a blind man to establish a Cabinet post in arts and culture, when most of the small venues, theaters and galleries in the US are under the size that would allow the ADA to kick in.
ReplyDeleteThe inability for the arts czar to actually see art is less crucial than the fact that he is a lawyer, with no stated arts management or affiliated experience. How important is this post, anyway?