An award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York, conveys his life experience in a bold collection of essays addressing family trauma, addiction, poverty-and how a passion to create art moved him beyond his struggles.
An award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York, conveys his life experience in a bold collection of essays addressing family trauma, addiction, poverty-and how a passion to create art moved him beyond his struggles.
Patrick Dougher is a self-taught fine artist, musician, poet and actor who was recently name-dropped in the song "Saltwater" by Black Thought. He has performed and recorded with Sade, the Grammy award-winning Dan Zanes, Black Uhuru's Michael Rose, Steel Pulses' David Hinds and Hip Hop star Chuck D of Public Enemy. He has performed his poetry for the WNET Open Mic series, on BRIC TV and at venues around NYC. Dougher worked as an art therapist with HIV positive children at Kings County Hospital, as a youth counselor and teaching artist at Project Reach and Studio in a School, and served as the Program Director of Groundswell. His visual art has been featured in numerous exhibitions, as well as on TV shows including "The First Wives Club" and "Riches". He created the cover art for the reissues of Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (Amistad) and The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter Woodson (Penguin Random House), and illustrated the recently released children's book Hold Them Close by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow (HarperCollins). His visual art can be seen on his website, www.godbodyart.com.
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