Esse Quam Videri Project
In Uncategorized on May 19, 2009 at 8:47 pmClick to see full screen
Check out the self portraits at http://www.muslimselfportrait.info
“Todd Drake has designed a uniquely creative and sensitive project in which Muslim North Carolinians express their identities through photography. It is a compelling and powerful demonstration of the potential of art to humanize us to each other.”
Carl W. Ernst
William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, UNC
Director, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations
Overview
In Uncategorized on November 26, 2008 at 12:07 amClick to watch full screen.
PRESS & REVIEWS:
Art and Activism by Tina Firesheets
Strangers Influence Art by Jane E. Whitehorne
What Happens Back Home by Mark Derewicz
Muslim Self Portraits in Islamic Arts Magazine
“…I am stopped cold by a large, colorful mural created by Greensboro’s Todd Drake. He said the mural was inspired by pencil drawings contributed by Triad residents. The drawings exist on the wall below the mural and are fun to study in their sheer variety. But it’s also cool in another sense: Drake has used this collaborative approach with Alzheimer’s patients, clubgoers in night clubs and cashiers at local businesses, and I believe he’s breaking down artist and community barriers.”
- Keith Buckner, ‘Drawn/Quartered’ challenges art’s meaning, review of SECCA show, News and Record, May 13, 2004
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