www.stltoday.com/entertainment: Opera Theatre of St. Louis has announced the third class of its Clayco Future Leaders Fellowship. The program, which is designed to cultivate future leaders in arts administration who come from historically underrepresented backgrounds — particularly those who identify as Black, Indigenous and people of color — was launched in 2020.
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What OTSL is doing for the current generation of artists is amazing. But I think they should be doing more to help the next generation not run into the same issues as the current people they are helping. Affirmative action is great as it helps the current people in the field who are affected by the problem. The issue with it is that it doesn’t set up the rest of society for success. It is putting funds solely towards people who will then take off and do their own thing. It doesn’t invest in new education or opportunities. That’s not to say that programs such as this shouldn’t exist, because they should. But they should have two branches, one who creates opportunities for current generations, and one who sets the next generation up to have the same opportunities that the original generation would have never gotten.
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