CHICAGO – As political leaders have been campaigning for the Democratic Party and its nominees throughout the week, a contingent of Hollywood stars are making the case for the importance of funding the arts and the efficacy of the arts at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. They’re here with The Creative Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public advocacy organization that was formed in 1989. It’s led by actor Tim Daly, who serves as president, and CEO Robin Bronk.
The organization has been bringing celebrities to both the DNC and RNC for 24 years. I’ve been invited by the organization to exclusively trail the celebs — Yvette Nicole Brown , Dean Norris , Iain Armitage, Anthony Anderson, Uzo Aduba, Chris Witaske, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Yvette Nicole Brown, Busy Phillips, John Jacobs, Danai Gurira, Yolonda Ross, and Jon Cryer — as they meet with U.S.
lawmakers and the general public to communicate how the arts impacts the world, not just those who make a career within them but youth programs that empower people over a lifetime across every kind of discipline. “Our goals for being here are to meet people, collect more allies, and to also try to help people find some language to change the narrative about arts in this country,” Daly says, noting that England, whose population is a fifth of the size of the U.S.
spends $1.4 billion, and Spain, which is less than a fifth of our population spends $1.6 billion, whereas the U.
S. invests $200 million. Meanwhile.