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The Annenberg Award

FAPE honors Wynton Marsalis with a dinner in Washington DC

Guests of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies gathered on the evening of April 24 for dinner at the State Department’s Diplomatic Reception Room. This event in Washington DC honored jazz musician, composer, and bandleader Wynton Marsalis with the Leonore and Walter Annenberg Award for Diplomacy through the Arts.

Washington, DC
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Jane Harman (left), president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Bob Dickie raised a glass to Wynton Marsalis (right).
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Meryl Streep attended with husband, artist Don Gummer, whom FAPE recently commissioned for a site-specific installation at the US Embassy in Moscow.
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Board member Stavros Niarchos and FAPE Circle vice chairman Vito Schnabel