Biden administration forces resignations from members of U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

While the above group of appointees is a powerful one that renders the CFA far more diverse than Trump left it, the removal of Guillot leaves the commission with no landscape architects, as pointed out by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). “Under the Obama Administration, the Commission of Fine Arts had three landscape architects as commissioners: Elizabeth Meyer, Liza Gilbert and Mia Lehrer,” said TCLF president and CEO Charles A. Birnbaum in a statement provided to AN. “None of the four proposed commissioners is a landscape architect, which is notable considering how much of the capital’s unique and significant landscape legacy falls within its purview.”