[2] CAH was created as an outgrowth of the U.S. Congress Act that established the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities of 1965.

chairperson of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities is business leader and philanthropist, Reggie Van Lee and the current[when?]

The statute paragraph in D.C. code, DC ST § 39-201, says that the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) was founded in 1975, but the National Assembly of State Art Agencies (NASAA) has legislative appropriations numbers for CAH from 1968 forward.

NASAA’s State Arts Council records dated August 1968 lists the D.C. member as the Recreation Board of the District of Columbia.

[5] All functions of the Recreation Board were transferred to the Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia, Walter E. Washington.