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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Canada bound.

Posted on May 2, 2017 by

After detailing the grueling application schedule for universities in my last post, I’m happy to report that I have accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Illustration in the Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice at Emily Carr University, … Continue reading →

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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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