Grammy-winning music producer/executive
Clive Davis, filmmaker
Ava DuVernay and tennis-champs-turned-producers
Venus and
Serena Williams are among the seven recipients of
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait of a Nation award.
The honorees will be celebrated during the Portrait of a Nation Gala on 11/12, proceeds from which will support the National Portrait Gallery’s endowment for exhibitions, collections, commissions and education programs.
Said
Kim Sajet, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, “These honorees are innovators in their respective disciplines and advocates for social causes who use their voices to care for and lift up others. The Portrait of a Nation Award reminds us that history is living and the choices people make have an impact on the nation’s legacy.”
Other 2022 recipients include Chief Medical Advisor to the President
Anthony S. Fauci,
M.D.,
World Central Kitchen founder
José Andrés and
Children’s Defense Fund founder
Marian Wright Edelman. They join past honorees
Spike Lee,
Lin-Manuel Miranda,
Aretha Franklin,
Earth, Wind & Fire,
Anna Wintour,
Jeff Bezos,
Rita Moreno and
Madeleine Albright.
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