Category Archives: Art

Mothers’ Voices: A “Rematriated” Adoptee’s Art Residency

Posted on May 14, 2017 by

As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve started an artist’s residency at the Newark Print Shop. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Kickstarter campaign, which was successful. Advertisements

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Malcolm X Returns to Beirut

Posted on June 11, 2016 by

This was my second piece for Land of Gazillion Adoptees/Gazillion Voices [link to article], originally published in May of 2015.

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Jamaa Al-Yad: New Projects

Posted on August 26, 2015 by

Jamaa Al-Yad is happy to announce two new projects. The first is in collaboration with the Inteference Archive in Brooklyn, which has put together a portfolio of posters honoring the Cuban poster design of the Organization of Solidarity of the … Continue reading →

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Illustration @DrennanArt

Posted on August 13, 2014 by

It’s been a long time on my “to-do” list, but I’ve finally put up my illustration and teacher portfolios: Daniel Drennan | Illustration; and on Twitter: @DrennanArt.

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Boycott, Divest, and Sanction #BDS

Posted on May 11, 2014 by

Excerpted from the art and design blog, Design Altruism Project [link to blog]: This is a movement for global justice, both political and economic. It focuses on the various levels of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance that formed the active undergirding … Continue reading →

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Ghassan Kanafani project

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

A poster to celebrate the writer and activist Ghassan Kanafani, assassinated in Beirut on July 8, 1972. غسَّان كنفاني: ملصق | Ghassan Kanafani: poster

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Resistance in Print: The Jamaa Al-Yad Collective

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

A former student of mine interviewed me on the local collective we started up a few years ago, Jamaa Al-Yad.

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Land Day project

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Palestine becomes emblematic of all dispossessed people; the farmer, displaced by capitalist and globalizing forces, becomes a symbol of resistance. To return to the land becomes not just a right but a duty; the restoration of the land to the … Continue reading →

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Occupied Wall Street Journal project

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

This poster was created collectively with other artists adding their posters to a newspaper published by the resistance movement currently occupying Wall Street. Occupied Wall Street Journal Occuprint

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Stone’s throw project

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

On May 15, 2011, during the Day of Return to Palestine, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on unarmed civilians protesting legally within the border of Lebanon and other countries neighboring Palestine. Men, women, and children from all walks of life … Continue reading →

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