Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfre Woodard, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, and George C. Wolfe are among the artists whom President Barack Obama has named to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, according to a report in Variety. The committee will advise the president on elevating the role of the arts in society.

The committee will also include Teresa Heinz, Bryan Lourd, Yo-Yo Ma, Liz Manne, Thom Mayne, Andy Spahn, Jill Cooper Udall, Anna Wintour, and Damian Woetzel.

As previously reported, producers George Stevens Jr. and Margo Lion are the committee's co-chairmen, and Mary Schmidt Campbell, who has served as the dean of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts since 1991, is the committee's vice-chairman.