In fulfilling these duties, the office has been assisted by the Fine Arts Committee and an outside 501(c)(3) organization, the Fund for the Endowment of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms.

The Americana Project was headed by the former Assistant Chief of Protocol, Clement Conger, under Secretary of State Christian Herter during the Kennedy administration.

Conger had years earlier recommended space for official government entertainment be made in the expansion to the DOS headquarters and Congress had approved this.

I use [the Diplomatic Reception Rooms] constantly with visitors, to sort of do that transformation of a couple of hundred years and take them back to our founding documents because only by talking about these men and talking about what they did, in the surroundings that would be familiar to them, can I show [visitors] how we became what we became.The Diplomatic Reception Rooms, a museum institution, is used by the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State to officially entertain heads of state, heads of government, foreign ministers, as well as other distinguished foreign and American guests.

Objects in the collection reflect American art and architecture from the time of the nation's founding and its formative years, 1750-1825.

The Office of Fine Arts offers paid internship opportunities each year to those enrolled in an accredited college or university.