Jason Dermer, a 17 year employee at the Paramount Theater talks about paranormal experiences inside this historic venue.
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The ad quickly drew the ire of people who are, today and tomorrow, actors and ballet dancers.
The company eventually released this apology statement: “Wells Fargo is deeply committed to the arts, and we offer our honest apology for the initial ads promoting our September 17 Teen Financial Education Day”.
Wells Fargo is not the first multinational company accused of belittling the pursuit of arts, as AT&T and Old Navy received flak from arts professionals due to their advertisements.
“Wells Fargo is deeply committed to the arts, and we offer our honest apology for the initial ads promoting our September 17 Teen Financial Education Day”. In the process, they managed to royally piss off people from basically every walk of art.
The company released an ad campaign last week, which said that the ballerinas and actors of yesterday could be the botanists and engineers of today.
A brochure made by Wells Fargo attracted criticism among the artistic community this week for appearing to actively dissuade young people from pursuing careers in the arts.
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In addition to anger, many also were quick to point out that a classic musical even contains a song about the company – “Wells Fargo Wagon” from “The Music Man”.
