National Medal of Arts
Earl Scruggs
banjo player
Robert Shaw
orchestra conductor, choral director
Billy Taylor
jazz pianist
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
architects
Robert Wise
film producer, director
Maurice Abravanel
music director, conductor
Roy Acuff
country singer, bandleader
Pietro Belluschi
architect
J. Carter Brown
museum director
Charles "Honi" Coles
tap dancer
John O. Crosby
opera director, conductor, administrator
Richard Diebenkorn
painter
R. Philip Hanes, Jr.
arts patron
Kitty Carlisle Hart
actress, singer, arts administrator, dancer
Pearl Primus
choreographer, anthropologist