On the afternoon that an NEA-cutting federal budget proposal is unveiled, Brewer gets visibly frustrated when discussing the absolute necessity of the arts. “I did shit in school, absolute shit, I was terrible,” she says. “But I got straight A’s in college, at [New York’s American Musical and Dramatic Academy] on the Upper West Side. All singing, all acting, all dancing, all the time. I excelled because I felt at home in it, like I was finally somewhere I wanted to be. I can’t overstate the importance of arts and music programs. Without those, I don’t know where I’d be.”
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