$25,000 Arts Grant to Arts & Faith Organization in Saint Louis

SAINT LOUIS-TIMES DISPATCH
By Tim Townsend

MISSOURI---Sometimes crisis can birth noble efforts. And a new St. Louis arts organization is proof. Opera Theatre St. Louis’s “The Death of Klinghoffer,” about the murder in 1985 of a Jewish American tourist by members of the Palestine Liberation Front on a Mediterranean cruise ship, was a year away from production. Knowing the kind of ugly debates John Adams’s opera had provoked since it was first staged in 1991, Timothy O’Leary, general director of Opera Theatre, set up the lunch at Duff’s. Now, another product of that lunch conversation is taking shape in the form of Arts & Faith St. Louis. The organization will team up with regional arts institutions to present exhibits and performances on the convergence of faith and arts. The Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis has approved at the committee level a $25,000 grant for the new organization. [link]