Thursday, April 1, 2010
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Take a moment and watch this moving, insightful, talk by author Elizabeth Gilbert. It can change your perspective as an artist, and should change 500 years of thinking.
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Take a moment and watch this moving, insightful, talk by author Elizabeth Gilbert. It can change your perspective as an artist, and should change 500 years of thinking.
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Art by Undocumented Immigrants and their Families, photos by Todd Drake, on display now at the Community Health Center, Winston-Salem, NC
Collaborative painting project with residence of Cherokee, NC
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Good Art + Good Works = Better World
Take a moment and watch this moving, insightful, talk by author Elizabeth Gilbert. It can change your perspective as an artist, and should change 500 years of thinking.
"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."
- William S. Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
Welcome
Welcome to my blog on art and activism. This space is dedicated to artists who are making art that is both visually engaging and conceptually focused on issues of social importance. In short, art that seeks to make the world a better place. Be prepared to be challenged, provoked, and hopefully inspired.
Blog author's info:
Name: Todd Drake
Occupation: Artist and arts educator
Location: North Carolina, USA
Websites: http://todddrake.wordpress.com and
See bottom of this page for email contact
Current Projects:/
http://www.muslimselfportrait.info
Occupation: Artist and arts educator
Location: North Carolina, USA
Websites: http://todddrake.wordpress.com and
See bottom of this page for email contact
Current Projects:/
http://www.muslimselfportrait.info
Calling All Art Activists
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Followers
From your perspective, should artists be adding more social / environmental content to their art or less?
Exhibitions, Performances, and Other Real World Opportunities
Art by Undocumented Immigrants and their Families, photos by Todd Drake, on display now at the Community Health Center, Winston-Salem, NC
Favorite Galleries and Museums
Recommended Books
- Blaze: Art, Women, and Feminism
- Bomb After Bomb
- Dias & Riedweg by Suely Rolnik
- Finding Grace: The Face of America's Homeless
- Give Me Eyes-Crossing borders to the heart
- Going to Carolina del Norte, Narrating Mexican Migrant Experiences
- Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
- Letters to a young poet by Rainer Rilke
- Misadventures in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist, and Spy
- Persepolis
- Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee
- Six Degrees
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Underground America
Return of the Boogerman by Todd Drake
Collaborative painting project with residence of Cherokee, NC
A Dream of Trees by Mary Oliver
There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,
A quiet house, some green and modest acres
A little way from every troubling town,
A little way from factories, schools, laments.
I would have time, I thought, and time to spare,
With only streams and birds for company,
To build out of my life a few wild stanzas.
And then it came to me, that so was death,
A little way from everywhere.
There is a thing in me still dreams of trees.
But let it go. Homesick for moderation,
Half the world’s artists shrink or fall away.
If any find solution, let him tell it.
Meanwhile I bend my heart toward lamentation
Where, as times implore our true involvement,
The blades of every crisis point the way.
I would it were not so, but so it is.
Who ever made music of a mild day?
A quiet house, some green and modest acres
A little way from every troubling town,
A little way from factories, schools, laments.
I would have time, I thought, and time to spare,
With only streams and birds for company,
To build out of my life a few wild stanzas.
And then it came to me, that so was death,
A little way from everywhere.
There is a thing in me still dreams of trees.
But let it go. Homesick for moderation,
Half the world’s artists shrink or fall away.
If any find solution, let him tell it.
Meanwhile I bend my heart toward lamentation
Where, as times implore our true involvement,
The blades of every crisis point the way.
I would it were not so, but so it is.
Who ever made music of a mild day?
About Me
- Todd Drake
- I endure for art and those I love.
"If you ask me what I came to do in the world, I, an artist, will answer you: I came here to live out loud. "
- Emile Zola
- Emile Zola
feed back on this blog:
"Your work showcasing contemporary arts and activism is so refreshing and necessary, a calm to divisiveness and a balm to the spirit. I very much appreciate you tracking our work and the work of so many committed artists in a culture desperate for truth, beauty and grace.
Thank you ever so much.
Please keep up your excellent work.
Muchos Gracias,"
Valarie James
http://www.lasmadresproject.org/
Thank you ever so much.
Please keep up your excellent work.
Muchos Gracias,"
Valarie James
http://www.lasmadresproject.org/
More Feed Back
"Recently heard from a guy named Lucas who has a magazine called Roots. He's found a place for our tiered justice installation. He saw us first on your blog site. Want to say thank you." -Frances
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There is always
"There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment, and still be at peace....To be such a person or to witness anyone at this moment of transcendent presence is to know that what is human is linked, by daring compassion, to what is divine."
Alice Walker
"El hombre es solo la mitad de si mismo: la otra mitad es su expresion."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Check these out!
- A Great Source for Activist Materials: Syracuse Culture Workers Site
- Anamorphosis -Designing with a heart, blog
- Another Voice
- Artevist -Activist Design
- Break Thru Films
- Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
- Center for Social Media
- Community Arts Network
- Day Light Magazine
- Do Some Thing: Youth Activist Grants
- Documentaries That Inspire Blog
- Doodlers Anonymous
- Eyes Wide Open
- Gomez-Pena Performance Group
- Groundswell Collective Blog
- Groundswell Mural / Public Art in NYC
- Guerrilla-innovation Blog
- HAND: Health Arts Network at Duke
- Iraq Media Action Project
- JollyTime Blog
- LA Poverty Department
- Las Madres Project
- List of Art Therapy Educational Programs
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Order a "Not a Terrorist!" T-Shirt: Make a strong conceptual statement.
- People Not Profit's Blog
- Photo Voice
- Revolving Museum: making space for art and community
- Save GCS Arts! Blog
- Southern Documentary Fund
- Stories from Plant the Arts Grow North Carolina
- Take IT Global
- Talking NC - Educational videos
- Thriving Too Blog
- Tobacco Road Poet
- Todd Drake's Website
- Witness.org
- Working Films
- Yoko Ono's New Imagine Peace Memorial
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