Burnout to Paradise–Building Legacy as Millennials (BlackLight Summit)

While in the midst of their strengths and struggles millennial and Gen Z artists of color have managed to continuously spin straw into gold. But, to what end? In this panel discussion—part of the BlackLight Summit from the Clarice, we will have a conversation about how an unstable economy and social upheaval have fostered circumstances in which building a lasting career in the arts is full of risk with no guarantee of reward. For rising generations of creatives, is the choice to be an artist a pathway to a thriving sustainable legacy or a continual uphill fight for legitimacy…or both?