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Tina Fey Offers Up Drawing For Fundraising Campaign

Tina Fey is best known for her sense of humor, but she’s also got some visual arts skills. The Saturday Night Live alum joined a fundraising campaign in honor of three little girls who perished ...
Tina Fey Offers Up Drawing For Fundraising Campaign
Written by Amanda Crum
  • Tina Fey is best known for her sense of humor, but she’s also got some visual arts skills. The Saturday Night Live alum joined a fundraising campaign in honor of three little girls who perished in a tragic housefire in 2011, hoping to help bring art education into schools where programs are seriously underfunded.

    The group, LilySarahGrace, was started by the girls’ father, Matthew Badger. He says his appreciation for the arts came when his daughters all exhibited signs of dyslexia and were helped by visual art.

    “This campaign is all about promoting the joy of creativity. I just think it is really awesome that so many creative people showed up for this and took the time to do a drawing. The family of LilySarahGrace suddenly just got so much bigger! I hope this campaign furthers our reach into the classrooms across America. The country is filled with public elementary school teachers that are desperate to bring the arts into their classrooms. They know how art creates a love of learning for their students,” Badger said in a statement.

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    Badger has started a Kickstarter campaign for a book titled You Can’t Memorize This, which will feature artwork from Fey and dozens of other celebrities. The full list includes:

    ADAM SCOTT
    BEN HARPER
    BRUNO MARS
    CAROLE FEUERMAN
    CASEY AFFLECK
    DAVID COPPERFIELD
    DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
    ED HELMS
    ELIZABETH BANKS
    ELLE FANNING
    ERIC BOGOSIAN
    FLEA
    HELEN FICALORA
    JACK BLACK
    JASON BATEMAN
    JEMIMA KIRKE
    JESSICA BIEL
    JOAQUIN PHOENIX
    JOHNNY KNOXVILLE
    JULIANNA MARGULIES
    LAURA DERN
    LAURIE SIMMONS
    LENA DUNHAM
    LIONEL RICHIE
    MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL
    MARIO BATALI
    MARK SELIGER
    MARY LOUISE PARKER
    NAOMI WATTS
    NIGEL SYLVESTER
    RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
    SAGE VAUGHN
    SCOTT CAAN
    TINA FEY
    TOM ARNOLD
    WHOOPI GOLDBERG
    WILL FERRELL
    WILL.I.AM

    Fey recently received quite a compliment from fellow actress Reese Witherspoon, who named the comedian and writer as very influential to her.

    “One of the biggest inspirations for me was reading Tina Fey’s book. It was a very—she said, you know, if I can help one other woman create something in Hollywood, I’ve done my job. And I hope to have that same goal, you know, just to create opportunities for other women to tell their stories, because women aren’t just girlfriends and wives, you know, in movies, to big leading men. Those are great roles, but I feel like women are much more complex than that. And I’m excited to be able to help them get their stories to the screen,” she said during a Fox News Sunday interview.

    Image via Kickstarter

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