Alabama Quote by Nelsan Ellis

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she…

— Sela Ward

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

— Steve Kazee

I didn't go to art school. I was a basketball scholarship, student-athlete, and both my parents were in the military. I had a very…

— RaMell Ross

I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility -…

— Kim Brooks

I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and I just…

— Crystal Bowersox

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.

— Danielle Brooks

My career would not exist if not for the arts in the schools when I grew up.

— Philip Bailey

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the…

— Jerry Saltz

I was fortunate enough to go to an art school where we had a lot of different ethnicities represented.

— Erika Jayne

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were…

— Stephen Beal

I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these…

— Merritt Wever