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" "I went into a supplier’s booth and stood there, ignored, for about 20 minutes, despite having 12 workers in the booth,” she explains. “It was right when the show floor opened, and they weren’t busy. I now call it the khakis and polo club because that’s what every one of those guys were wearing. It’s the traditional footprint of so many in our industry, but I don’t participate. I’m tattooed. I’m young. I’m female. So was like, ‘Okay, here’s a bias.’ So now I'm very sensitive to the gender gap in our industry.”
Jennifer Victoria Moss (10 January 1945 – 29 September 2006) was an English actress and singer from Wigan, Lancashire. She was best known for her role as Lucille Hewitt on the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street, which she starred in from 1960 to 1974.
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Don’t be afraid to put the guy with 30 years of experience on the bench and let him consult a group of younger folks to lead a project and challenge the status quo,” she advises. “If you are going to get people interested in this industry, it can’t continue to look how it’s always looked. It’s okay if everybody’s skin color is different at a table. It’s okay if half of the people in the board room are covered in tattoos. It’s okay if someone came from the cannabis industry and is now growing lettuce in a vertical farm. We’ve got to be able to cross over into the next stage of this industry’s evolution.”
At Sulfur, we created studio spaces, but more than that, we created this sense of community through the artists in the studios, the artists that we show, and the people who come to our events and to all the programming we do. Now, more artists feel they can stay and work in Savannah and have that community. We just need to keep making that space to keep them here, and to make Savannah an art destination.