Three medals will be awarded posthumously: the late singer Selena Quintanilla and artist Ruth Asawa are arts medalists, and the late chef-author Anthony Bourdain was among the humanities medalists. The Arts Medals are administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Humanities Medals are administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Actors Idina Menzel and Eva Longoria, producer Bruce Cohen and composers Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenez and Herbert I. Ohta will also receive arts medals, as will photographer Randy A. Batista and Clyde Butcher, artists Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz and Mark Bradford will also be involved. Arts leaders Jo Carol Lauder and Bruce Sagan and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

The Medal of Arts is awarded “to individuals or groups who deserve special recognition because of their outstanding contributions to the promotion, development, support, and availability of the arts in the United States.”

Other humanities winners include former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, actor-literacy advocate LeVar Burton, cartoonist Rose Chast, and philanthropists Wallis Annenberg and Darren Walker. The Humanities Medal “honors an individual or organization whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the human experience, broadened citizens’ engagement with history or literature, or preserved Americans’ access to cultural resources. And helped to expand.”

Humanities Medal winners range from cultural institutions like the Mellon Foundation and Appleshop to teachers Robin Harris, Robert Martin, and Ruth J. Simons to scholars Pauline Yu, Nicholas Kanellos, and Robin Wall Kimmerer. Writer Juan Felipe Herrera, filmmaker Don Porter and anthropologist Rosita Varal also will be honored Monday.

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