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Jane Alexander Kathy Mattea


John Legend speaking at Arts Advocacy Day 2008

 

"To Americans for the Arts, my gratitude for your tireless and effective advocacy on behalf of art and all that comes with it—you truly make a difference and we're all the better for it."

—Robert Redford


"Like the air we breathe, the cultural winds in America blow across state lines and county boundaries. It's vitally important that all Americans have access to a common language in art and music; it helps mend the broken social contract and brings us together in appreciation of the best that human beings can do."

—Meryl Streep


"Drama is about choice, character, and individual responsibility in a community. It engages a student on the crucial issues of their life in the way that no lecture, sermon, or even story can. I have been stunned by the influence theater can have on students who are fortunate enough to see it. I feel it is the implicit objective of every artist to reach as many young minds as possible. They are not only the next generation of audience members or artists, but the next generation of citizens. Access to theater may well determine the quality of their citizenship."

—Wendy Wasserstein


"The advocacy work of Americans for the Arts fosters appreciation for the arts on every level, from children in our nation's schools, to citizens who support the arts locally, to legislation on the state and federal level. The arts are a vehicle that brings the viewer and the creator to the different disciplines of the world: science, philosophy, theology, mathematics. This is the unique power of the arts."

—Jeff Koons


"Funding for the arts and arts education is dramatically decreasing. Americans for the Arts is fighting to ensure that theater, art, dance, and music do not disappear from our schools and communities. We applaud this effort."

—Joanne Woodward and
Paul Newman

Kwaku Alston Trey McIntyre
Dame Julie Andrews Julie Mehretu
Martina Arroyo Richard Meier
Paul Auster

Arthur Mitchell

Bob Balaban

Brian Stokes Mitchell

John Baldessari Walter Mosley
Alec Baldwin

Paul Muldoon

Theodore Bikel

Kate Mulleavy

Lewis Black

Laura Mulleavy

Lauren Bon

Matt Mullican

Amy Brenneman Leonard Nimoy
Connie Britton Alessandro Nivola
Blair Brown Naomi Shihab Nye
Kate Burton Yoko Ono
Chuck Close Harold Prince
Stephen Collins Robert Redford
Chuck D Michael Ritchie
Jacques d’Amboise Victoria Rowell
Fran Drescher Salman Rushdie
Patty Duke Martin Scorsese
Pierre Dulaine Cindy Sherman
Todd Eberle Gabourey Sidibe
Hector Elizondo Anna Deavere Smith
Giancarlo Esposito Arnold Steinhardt
Suzanne Farrell Meryl Streep
Laurence Fishburne Holland Taylor
Ben Folds Julie Taymor
Hsin-Ming Fung Marlo Thomas
Frank O. Gehry Stanley Tucci
Marcus Giamatti Edward Villella
Josh Groban Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Mary Rodgers Guettel Kerry Washington
Robert Gupta William Wegman
Hill Harper Bradley Whitford
Arthur Hiller Kehinde Wiley
Craig Hodgetts Henry Winkler
Lorin Hollander Joanne Woodward
Jenny Holzer Kulapat Yantrasast
Siri Hustvedt Peter Yarrow
David Henry Hwang Michael York
Melina Kanakaredes  
Jon Kessler  
Richard Kind  
Jeff Koons  
Swoosie Kurtz  
John Legend  
Liz Lerman In Memoriam
John Lithgow Ossie Davis
Graham Lustig Skitch Henderson
Yo-Yo Ma Paul Newman
Kyle MacLachlan John Raitt
Yvonne Marceau Lloyd Richards
Peter Martins Billy Taylor
Marlee Matlin Wendy Wasserstein