artists committee
| Jane Alexander | Kathy Mattea |
"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
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| Martina Arroyo | Richard Meier | |
| John Baldessari | Arthur Mitchell | |
| Alec Baldwin | Brian Stokes Mitchell | |
| Theodore Bikel | Walter Mosley | |
| Lewis Black | Paul Muldoon | |
| Lauren Bon | Matt Mullican | |
| Amy Brenneman | Paul Newman | |
| Connie Britton | Alessandro Nivola | |
| Blair Brown | Yoko Ono | |
| Kate Burton | Robert Redford | |
| Chuck Close | Michael Ritchie | |
| Stephen Collins | Victoria Rowell | |
| Chuck D | Martin Scorsese | |
| Jacques d’Amboise | Cindy Sherman | |
| Fran Drescher | Anna Deavere Smith | |
| Patty Duke | Arnold Steinhardt | |
| Pierre Dulaine | Meryl Streep | |
| Hector Elizondo | Billy Taylor | |
| Giancarlo Esposito | Julie Taymor | |
| Suzanne Farrell | Marlo Thomas | |
| Laurence Fishburne | Edward Villella | |
| Hsin-Ming Fung | Malcolm Jamal Warner | |
| Marcus Giamatti | William Wegman | |
| Frank O. Gehry | Bradley Whitford | |
| Arthur Hiller | Henry Winkler | |
| Craig Hodgetts | Joanne Woodward | |
| David Henry Hwang | Kulapat Yantrasast | |
| Jane Kaczmarek | Peter Yarrow | |
| Richard Kind | Michael York | |
| Jeff Koons | ||
| Swoosie Kurtz |
In memoriam | |
| Liz Lerman |
Ossie Davis | |
| Graham Lustig |
Skitch Henderson | |
| Yvonne Marceau |
John Raitt | |
| Peter Martins |
Lloyd Richards | |
| Marlee Matlin |
Wendy Wasserstein |
