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Robert Garfias, dean of the School of Fine Arts at UC Irvine, has been nominated by President Reagan to serve on the National Council on the Arts, the advisory body to the National Endowment for the Arts. Other nominees, subject to Senate confirmation, include: Ardis Krainik of the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Harvey Lichtenstein of the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Arthur Mitchell of the Dance Theater of Harlem; David Baker, Indiana jazz musician and educator; Nina Brock, former chairwoman of the Tennessee Arts Commission, and Robert Johnson, a Florida state senator and a member of the state’s arts council.