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Clan Power A selective list of top families whose wealth, political clout, and philanthropy allow them to make a major difference in the life of the nation’s capital
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Patriarch Joe Allbritton is 85 and semi-retired from the business and social scene. His son, Robert, continues to develop a communications empire that includes local TV stations WJLA and NewsChannel 8, the Politico website, and the soonto-launch tbd.com. 2
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2 BENNETT Former “Drug Czar” Bill Bennett writes books while streaming his conservative Internet show, “Morning in America” to radio stations across the land; super lawyer brother Bob has represented Bill Clinton and John McCain in sex-related scandals and most recently reported to the D.C. City Council on some of the more recent transgressions of former Mayor Marion Barry. 3
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The Vice President is on official travel much of the time; his wife, Jill, who has a Ph.D. in Education, works to raise awareness of the value of community colleges. Their son Beau Biden, a Yaletrained lawyer, is a partner at the Rosemont Seneca law firm in Washington. 4
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Former First Brother Marvin Bush is a businessman with interests in insurance companies; his spunky wife Margaret (“Margo”) occasionally appears in local theater productions; sister Doro Bush Koch lives quietly in Bethesda where she supports various charities and non-profit groups.
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5 CAFRITZ Calvin and Jane Cafritz’s contributions to the city’s cultural and philanthropic scene are as many and myriad as the real estate projects the clan has developed over most of the last century. Calvin’s younger brothers, Conrad and Carter, are behindthe-scenes players in many business and charitable ventures players. Conrad’s ex-wife, former D.C.
School Board Chairwoman Peggy Cooper Cafritz, recently resurfaced after her art-filled home was destroyed in a fire last year. Cousin William “Bill” Cafritz and his wife, Buffy, are mainstays of the Washington social scene. 6 DIAZ-BALART The indomitably anti-Castro Cuban-American political dynasty will lose half of its congressional power in January when Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R.-Fla.) retires from his Miami-based seat after nine terms. His more conservative sibling, Mario, who now represents Ft. Lauderdale, has announced plans to seek election from his brother’s even more solidly Republican district. 7
Donald Graham presides from the corporate chairman’s seat after handing over the publishing reins of The Washington Post to his niece, Katharine Weymouth, who continues to battle declining circulation and revenue. Her indomitable mother, Lally Weymouth, surfaces at the odd A-List party and keeps au courant by contributing occasional Q&A’s with world political figures. 8
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. retains firm control of his strongly Democratic Chicago congressional district after 14 years, although his popularity and family connections weren’t enough to make him a contender for the Illinois U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in November. To his credit, the younger Jackson is no clone of his famous dad. In 2008, when Jesse Jackson Sr. made derogatory remarks about then-presidential-candidate Barack Obama, his son quickly rebuked him with a sharply worded defense. 9
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in 64 years that the famed American political dynasty will have no seat in Congress. He will be leaving Washington, perhaps for good, although his widowed step-mother, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, maintains a discreet profile here. Kara Kennedy, Patrick’s older sister, lives quietly with her children in the District and supports favored causes from time to time. 10 LERNER
Ted Lerner came up the big winner when his giant family real estate company, Lerner Enterprises, won the city’s baseball franchise in 2006; now his quest is to keep the team on top as well. Along with his son, Mark Lerner, and sons-inlaw, Edward Cohen and Robert Tanenbaum, he is also a minority partner in Lincoln Holdings, which owns the Washington Capitals and the Washington Mystics. Daughter Marla Lerner Tanenbaum directs philanthropic outreach as president of the Lerner Family Foundation and chairman of the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation. 11
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At $11 billion and counting, the notoriously press-shy Mars candy clan is, according to the latest (2010) installment of Forbes magazine’s “Billionaires List,” by far the wealthiest family in the Washington region. It certainly doesn’t hurt that the company’s main products (Snickers, M&M’s, Uncle Ben’s rice, pet food, chewing gum) are largely “recession proof.” Brothers Forrest and John Mars are now retired; their sister, Jacqueline, is an active and extremely generous supporter of the Washington National Opera. 12 MELLON Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, the art-collecting widow of oil, banking and steel heir Paul Mellon, recently emerged from the shadows at the age of 99 when it was revealed she had quietly helped pay some personal bills of Rielle Hunter, the mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards. Catherine Conover, Paul Mellon’s environmentallyconscious daughter from a previous marriage, is rarely seen in public; her daughter,Virginia Warner (daughter of former Sen. John Warner), maintains a quiet existence in the Virginia hunt country as do cousins Lavinia and Andrea Currier, the enormously wealthy granddaughters of Paul’s sister, the late Ailsa Mellon Bruce.
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John Podesta, Bill Clinton’s fourth and final White House chief of staff, serves as president of the liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress, and teaches law at Georgetown University. He directed operations for the Obama Administration’s transition team but declined any offers of a position for himself. Big brother Tony Podesta heads one of the most successful bi-partisan lobbying firms in Washington and is a noted collector of contemporary modern art.
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Brothers Mitchell and Steven Rales earned billions by buying and selling dozens of small companies. Mitchell is currently one of the world’s top collectors of abstract impressionist art and is one day expected to transfer much of what he now displays in his private museum in Potomac, Md., to the public domain.
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Sen. John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV, usually a reliable partyline trooper, made news in February when he suggested there was a disconnect between the Obama administration’s rhetoric on coal mining and coal-driven power and the president’s actual policies. Coal is, after all, the “state rock” of West Virginia, which he has represented in the U.S. Senate since 1985. His wife, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, has been battling cancer but maintains a high profile as president and CEO of WETA, Washington’s public television station. Two of the couple’s four children live in the area. Charles Rockefeller is studying for a Business degree at Georgetown. John D. “Jamie” Rockefeller V teaches Literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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Two cousinly colleagues currently represent the fourth generation of one of the American West’s most prominent political families in the U.S. Senate. Mark Udall, son of former Rep. Morris Udall, served in the House for ten years before winning a senate seat from Colorado in 2008. Thomas Udall, son of former congressman and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, was in Congress for the same tenyear period from New Mexico before winning his own Senate race there in 2008.
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Media You May Not Have Met (yet...) Finding it hard to keep track of all the cutting edge personalities who are transforming the news business these days? Here are a few you definitely need to know.
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Froomkin’s popular, no-holds-bar red criticism of establishment media mandarins may have caused his ouster from The Washington Post last summer, but the episode didn’t prevent The Huffington Post taking him on before unemployment benefits kicked in. Now he supervises HuffPo’s local staff while contributing his own searing analysis, much of it on economic issues. 2
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In a reverse switch, The Huffington Post’s senior news editor, Zaleski moved to The Washington Post from New York late last year to be executive producer and head of digital news products. Equally young, blonde, attractive, and dynamic, she’s already making strides in improving the product roadmap and user experience. She drove website traffic way up after the election of Sen. Scott Brown by betting that nobody could spell the word “Massachusetts.”
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3 MANUELA HOELTERHOFF As executive editor of “Muse,” Bloomberg News’ arts and culture section, Hoelterhoff helps produce features and reviews from around the world on everything from art and books to food, wine, and cars. The stories are part of the news and analytics sent to Bloomberg’s 300,000 clients in the financial community but can also be found on the web at bloomberg.com/muse. Hoelterhoff spent most of her career at The Wall Street Journal where she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Although based mostly in
New York, she plans to increase coverage of the Washington scene. 4 TIM SPARAPANI Facebook’s Washington spokesman is an effective and unflappable advocate for the phenomenally successful social media website’s public policy concerns, including Internet security, censorship, and the threat of government regulation. His mission, he says, is to make sure Silicon Valley and Washington “speak the same language.” 5 ERIK WEMPLE From 2002 until March of this year, Wemple cut a wide swath as editor of the Washington City Paper, where he was known for trenchant coverage of local politics, gritty social issues, and insider media machinations that had many editors and scribes– especially at The Washington Post – dreading his calls. In March, he took over operations at local news website www.tbd.com that will incorporate staff reports with material produced by Politico and two local TV stations also owned by Allbritton Communications. 6 ERICA ANDERSON AKA ‘ERICA AMERICA’
The twentysomething “citizen journalist” and competitive basketball player is an ambitious, well-connected blogger (www. ericaamerica.com) and freelance videographer who really knows how to work a room. Her savvy digital strategy has earned impressive credits with MTV, MSNBC, and CNN.
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Power couples These duos prove that the secret to success is often right by your side
1 JEFFREY BADER AND ROHINI TALALLA
She’s an academic and indie documentary filmmaker. He is senior director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council and an expert at the Brookings Institution. Bader joined Brookings after a 27-year career in the State Department, National Security Council, and office of the US Trade Representative.
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He’s the Senate minority leader from Kentucky with a perfect score from the American Conservative Union. She’s a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and from 2001-2009 was secretary of labor under President Bush. 7
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Described by Joe Biden as “one of the smartest guys [he’s] ever worked with” Blinken is the vice president’s national security advisor. Keeping it in the family, Ryan is Biden’s assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison. They met working in the White House in 1995 and married in 2002.
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Founder of the liberal watchdog group Media Matters, Brock is best known for authoring the “Troopergate” story, which led to the Paula Jones lawsuit. Alefantis does double duty as owner of Buck’s Fishing & Camping restaurant and Comet Ping Pong and serves as president of the Transformer Gallery.
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He’s the 82nd attorney general of the United States, and the first African-American to hold the position. She’s a Harvard trained obstetrician in private practice with the Foxhall OB-GYN Associates. 5
TOM KOROLOGOS AND ANN DORE MCLAUGHLIN KOROLOGOS
She was secretary of labor from 1987-89, and currently serves on the board of Fannie Mae, Vulcan Materials Company, the Kellogg Company, and is the chair of the RAND Corporation. He is the former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, a well-regarded lobbyist, and ardent supporter of the Republican Party.
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Nationally recognized as a media relations expert, McElrath Renna founded Renna Communications, a LGBT media strategy firm. Managing partner of Renna Communications, Leah McElrath has also written for numerous publications and is an expert in strategic and crisis communications campaigns. 8
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Carrying out his mother’s legacy in Congress since 2003, Meek hopes to win the vacant Florida U.S. Senate seat in 2010. Judge Leslie Meek is an administrative law judge in the District, and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Spouses Organization. 9 DAN PFEIFFER AND SARAH FEINBERG
She’s the senior adviser and spokeswoman for Rahm Emanuel. Once a spokesman for Vice President Al Gore, Pfeiffer is the White House communications director and assistant to President Obama. The couple married in July, 2006.
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She’s best known for being Hillary Clinton’s “body woman” during the 2008 campaign. He is the New York congressman known for his screaming matches with Ben Affleck on The Hill. They got engaged in 2009 and have been spotted on romantic dates at the impound lot, retrieving Weiner’s illegally parked hybrid car. Environmentalists to boot!
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The Titans of PR These powerhouses give voice to some of the world’s most important companies, countries, and people
1 MARGARET DUNNING Principal & Chief Strategy Officer Widmeyer Communications
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MARGERY KRAUS Founder & CEO APCO
Specializing in public affairs, communication and business consulting for major multinationals, APCO started as a small Washington office and morphed into a premiere global consulting firm under Kraus’ leadership. She pioneered one of the industry’s earliest practices in corporate responsibility and the development of public/private partnerships.
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Rehg has been in public relations, journalism, politics, and public affairs for more than 25 years. With Edelman, he works on reputation management, corporate communications, crisis and issues management, mergers and acquisitions, as well as
coalition programs in a wide range of industries. Rehg also managed rollout of reports for the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group, and crisis communications for the American Red Cross.
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Drawing on his background as a nationally-known pollster and a media consultant, Snyder founded New Media Strategies in 1999, creating a new industry segment in market research, online marketing and communications. He has been honored by Fortune Small Business for his innovative management-style when they named him “2006 Best Boss.”
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Founded in 1993, Walls Communications is one of the oldest, largest and most distinctive African American-owned public relations firms in the nation. WCI specializes in manifold areas of the communications industry and focuses on media relations, broadcast services, crisis communications management, diversity communications, and strategic planning. Walls is known for his numerous PR accomplishments with Fortune 500 businesses, organizations, and government agencies.
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With over four decades of public relations experience, Poretz specializes in investor relations, enterprise valuation issues, and corporate communications and positioning at Qorvis. As cofounder, he set out to create a new model for a communications company, and now years later, this goal has been accomplished.
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Power in the Arts These leaders in the arts community keeps Washington’s creativity flowing
1 G WAYNE CLOUGH Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
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Since taking his position in 2008, Clough has worked to digitize over 137 million objects housed in its collections to better enhance the institution’s educational opportunities.
Marks, who moved to the Post from The New York Times, can make or break a performance with a single review. His domain ranges from covering major pre-Broadway shows to small independent theater productions. . 7 JOHN NELSON
2 PLÁCIDO DOMINGO General Director, Washington National Opera
Domingo has continued to bring outstanding performances to WNO since taking over in 1996. A recent health scare couldn’t slow him down, as he recently added the title role in Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra” to his already-full schedule. 3 CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH Music Director Designate, National Symphony Orchestra and The Kennedy Center
Eschenbach will officially take the helm of all things musical this fall as director of both the NSO and the Kennedy Center. He is already well situated, having stepped in to conduct a number of superb concerts since his position was announced almost two years ago.
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This documentary filmmaker, best know for 2008’s “Bama Girl,” works with the White House on arts and humanities initiatives, education, and funding. 5 MICHAEL KAISER President, the Kennedy Center
In addition to running the Kennedy Center and serving as cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, Kaiser hit the road last June for his cross-country “Arts in Crisis” tour, in order to help struggling arts programs.
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A pioneer of “Superrealism,” Nelson’s work exhibited at the White House Executive Office Building was critically acclaimed and he has gained fame and recognition resulting in national advertising contracts.
EARL A “RUSTY” POWELL III Director, National Gallery of Art
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Aside from producing musicals like “Sophisticated Ladies,” Smith has been prepping the company for its move into a new $108 million home in Southwest Washington this fall.
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Artistic Director, The Washington Ballet His name and face have become synonymous with Washington dance, thanks to his tireless work directing a constantly changing company of young dancers.After wrapping “The Great Gatsby” in early 2010, he made his own return to the stage after 17 years in April in an autobiographical ballet for children.
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The Phillips’ Female Force In recognition of its Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction exhibition, The Phillips Collection is honoring six women for their leadership in advancing the arts. Read about them here along with the museum’s director, Dorothy Kosinski. DOROTHY KOSINSKI CURRENT ROLE: Kosinski became director of The Phillips Collection in April 2008. EDUCATION: She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and her B.A. from Yale University. PUBLISHED WORK: Kosinski has published a wide array of work on Joseph Cornell, Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg, Vincent van Gogh, and on topics ranging from 19th century Symbolism to Dada and Surrealism and contemporary art. PAST WORK: Prior to The Phillips Collection, she worked at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she served in a number of capacities for over 12 years, last as senior curator of painting and sculpture. She worked for over a decade in Basel, Switzerland, with the Douglas Cooper Collection of cubist art, and as a curator of exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts,The Kunstmuseum Basel, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, and the National Gallery in Prague.
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JO CAROLE LAUDER THE NEW YORK ART WORLD: Lauder has worked extensively with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she served as president of the International Council for 10 years. She is a member of the Contemporary Arts Council and the Chairman’s Council. ART IN EMBASSIES: Lauder is chairman of the board of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, which assists the U.S. Department of State in various programs designed to exhibit and preserve fine and decorative art in U.S. embassies. WORK IN FILM: With the Checkerboard Foundation, a non-profit film and production company dedicated to the American arts, Lauder was an associate producer of a documentary on the history of The Phillips Collection, and producer of Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments and Sol LeWitt:Wall Drawings. WORK ABROAD: As the wife of a U.S. ambassador to Austria, Lauder promoted American cultural interests. She became active in the Vienna Secession, a building that her
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husband helped restore. She furnished a wing in the embassy residence with American folk art and, upon leaving Vienna, donated the furnishings to the State Department.
HEATHER PODESTA CURRENT ROLE: Legislative and public policy strategist. AREA OF INTEREST: Contemporary art. A COUPLE OF COLLECTORS: She and her husband, Tony, have built a collection that is internationally regarded for its ambitious scope, particularly in photography and video. The Podestas have formed relationships with many of the emerging artists whose work they collect, oftentimes following and supporting the artists throughout their careers. They are generous donors to museums, frequently providing in-depth representations of individual artists’ works to create meaningful “core” collections. WOMEN IN THE ARTS: Podesta is a Trustee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and serves on the Advisory Board of the
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection, among other board service. AN EYE FOR MODERNISM: The Podestas have an extensive collection of major works by noted international artists including Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson, Sam Taylor-Wood, Candida Hofer, Marina Abramovic, Beatriz Milhazes, Vik Muñiz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Janaina Tschape, and Michal Rovner.
MICHELLE RHEE CURRENT ROLE: Rhee is chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, a district serving 45,000 students in 123 schools. CHANGES IN THE DISTRICT: She has helped to overhaul school budgets and reviewed afterschool programs to prioritize the study of art and music in the D.C. Public School system. This focus on the arts also includes this year’s launch of four Catalyst arts integration schools and plans for a new citywide arts magnet school. SERVING OUR CITY: Rhee serves on the advisory boards for the National Council on Teacher Quality, the National Center for Alternative Certification, and Project REACH of the University of Phoenix’s School of Education. She is an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center board of trustees.
MERA RUBELL EDUCATION: Born in Russia to Polish parents who fled during World War II, Rubell
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came to New York with her family when she was 12 years old. Arriving penniless and without a word of English, she went on to receive her B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College and an M.A. in education from Long Island University. Both degrees were a first for anyone in her family. A LIFE’S WORK: Rubell has spent a lifetime championing young artists and undiscovered neighborhoods, combining these two passions as she has helped to bring galleries, nonprofits, and cultural institutions to SoHo, Washington, D.C., and most notably, Miami, where she launched a private/public contemporary art museum, was a pioneer of historic redevelopment of South Beach, and played a pivotal role in bringing Art Basel, the world’s premier art fair, to Miami Beach. TOP OF THE CHARTS: Rubell, along with her husband Don, is consistently named among the world’s top 200 contemporary art collectors by ARTnews.
VICKI SANT CURRENT ROLE: A Washington philanthropist, Sant is president of The Summit Foundation and The Summit Fund of Washington, which she co-founded with her husband, Roger, in 1982. A LOCAL FOCUS: Sant is president of the National Gallery of Art, honorary chair of The Phillips Collection, and a board member of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies. In addition, she is a member of
the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art and of ArtTable. EDUCATION: Sant developed her interest in art at Stanford University, where she took art history courses and earned her B.A. in History and Literature. ARTS PASSION: Vicki and Roger Sant collect art with a focus on the Nabis, including such painters as Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, and Maurice Denis.
JILL COOPER UDALL CURRENTLY: Udall was recently appointed by President Obama to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. ARTS ADVOCATE: She is known throughout New Mexico as a strong advocate for the arts and has served on the boards of numerous arts and educational nonprofit organizations. In Washington, she has, in addition to her consulting practice, maintained her commitment to the arts by serving on the boards of Ford’s Theatre, the Washington National Opera, and Meridian International. NATIVE ARTISTS WORK: In Washington, she has been a consultant on museum issues for the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution to develop exhibits, programs and initiatives at the National Museum of the American Indian. One of her special projects at the Indian Museum, in conjunction with the State Department’s Arts in Embassies Program, was the commissioning of work by Native American artists to hang in diplomatic residences around the world.
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