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Adair Margo is Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001. PCAH, comprised of twenty-four private members and the heads of federal cultural agencies, incorporates the arts and the humanities into White House objectives. Margo is a member of the United States National Commission for UNESCO, appointed by Secretary of State Colin Powell, and she traveled with First Lady Laura Bush to Paris in 2003 for the United States reentry into UNESCO. She is an honorary member of the US-Mexico Foundation for Culture and she signed a Joint Communique for Cultural Cooperation between the United States and Mexico with Sari Bermudez, Presidenta of CONACULTA (National Council for Culture and the Arts). She attended the Organization of American States Second Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture and Highest Appropriate Authorities in Mexico City and traveled to Uruguay at the invitation of U.S. Ambassador Martin Silverstein, where she signed a Joint Communique for Cultural Cooperation with Minister of Education and Culture Leonardo Guzman. She lead a delegation of U.S. cultural agencies and private citizens to the People's Republic of China in June 2007 at the invitation of Chinese Cultural Minister Sun Jiazheng . The delegation included the Librarian of Congress and the heads of the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts; Institute of Museum and Library Services; and the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery.

Adair Margo founded Adair Margo Gallery in 1985 that exhibits international fine art. She is especially devoted to the artists of her region and is the only person to represent the work of famed painter and writer Tom Lea, who worked as a muralist, illustrator, World War II artist-correspondent, best selling novelist, historian, and studio painter. Adair has published two books with Texas Western Press: Tom Lea, An Oral History and Jose Cisneros, Immigrant Artist. She has taught art history at New Mexico State University and the University of Texas at El Paso.

Adair has served on many boards including Chairman of the Texas Commission on the Arts; Chairman of ExhibitsUSA for Mid-America Arts Alliance; the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Humanities Texas; the Center for Medical Ethics and the Humanities at the University of San Antonio Medical School; the Texas Philosophical Society; Texas A&M University Press; and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools/Commission on Colleges Executive Committee. She earned her B.A. in Art History from Vanderbilt University, studied Renaissance Art and Italian in Florence, Italy with Syracuse University, and earned her M.A. in Art History from New Mexico State University.

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