Unrest, Opportunity Drew RAC Head Back to St. Louis
Submitted by Steve on August 4, 2015
Nancy Fowler of St. Louis Public Radio, writing for The St. Louis American:
When new Regional Arts Commission (RAC) executive director Felicia Shaw, who currently sits on the GIA Board of Directors, realized her job at a San Diego foundation might be eliminated, she wondered what that might mean for her life. “I was thinking about what new direction I wanted to go in,” Shaw said. “And then, Ferguson happened.”
Last August, a Shaw listened to the news coming from her hometown of St. Louis, she went through a gamut of emotions: embarrassment, sadness, anger and guilt. What she heard loud and clear were the very same issues that drove her to move San Diego — more than three decades earlier. “Not being progressive, the segregation, the lack of regard for rights,” Shaw said.