If you’re a teacher and you’re not learning from your students, then you’re not really teaching, are you?” challenges filmmaker Spike Lee during a Mentor Panel Discussion of the Rolex Arts Weekend celebrated at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) this past September 10, 2022. Affirming the fluid and collaborative aspects of mentorship, the multi-awarded director and professor is one of four extraordinary personalities perpetuating the tradition of cascading knowledge and wisdom of their craft to young artists as part of the 2020-2022 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
“The next generation are all important to me, and I look to them as my mentors,” echoes British director Phyllida Lloyd, the genius behind the hit musical and mentor for the Theatre Category, who shares her excitement to
