Evan

@mardiculous.bsky.social

Co-Host of @tailschannel.com, Actor, Illustrator and Multimedia Production Teacher | Co-Owner of Opalco.art #art #Sonic

There WILL BE less people like Patrick Stewart or Dolly Parton, given widening wealth inequality, loss of jobs in creative sector, austerity, privatisation of education (especially arts) & financial exclusion. Art of the near future will be less diverse & restricted to the privileged few.

Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society
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Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society
Asinus Pervicax@knownagitator.lol · 3d ago

Patrick Stewart's passing feels a whole hell of a lot like Dolly's. It's hard to imagine that singular talents found in people born in the working class or working poor will get fostered the ways theirs were. The things that nurtured those talents have been stripped for profit by assholes.

do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.

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