Mary Schmidt Campbell
She didn’t get appointed to the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts, as I had once recommended. But Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and former executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, has just been tapped by President Obama to be vice chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Newly appointed co-chairmen are Margo Lion and George Stevens Jr., who were co-chairs of candidate Obama’s Art Policy Committee. Lion is an adjunct professor at Tisch and member of Schmidt Campbell’s Dean’s Council there. Michelle Obama is honorary chairman of the President’s Committee.
I guess this way Mary doesn’t have to leave her day job.