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Gazette Newspapers:
"Activist Art"
(April 21, 2010)
"Community activist Nadine Bloch insists that 'all good political work is good theater.' And to that end, artist and political activist Tom Block is producing the mother of all endeavors, the Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival. Some 400 artists will participate in 200 free events taking place Friday through Sunday throughout downtown Silver Spring."
Coffee House TV:
Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival
(April 5, 2010)
An interview with Art Festival creator and producer Tom Block
Rumi Forum:
Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity
(July 28, 2009)
A video of the lunchtime lecture and discussion on Tom Block's research in this field, and the upcoming publication of his book on the subject.
Gazette Newspapers:
"Taking a Stand"
(Silver Spring, MD, May 6, 2009)
"[Tom Block] isn't just any old painter hauling his easel out to capture another glorious Potomac River sunset. Rather, he insists on making art that has social relevance...."
Gazette Newspapers:
"Silver Spring artist crafts portraits of courage"
(Silver Spring, MD, April 29, 2009)
"A dazzling array of colors sprang out from the canvasses lining the walls of the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in downtown Silver Spring on Saturday evening. Bright, vibrant reds and oranges mingled to create deeply textured, haunting portraits of human rights activists from all over the world...."
Sufism World Report:
"Exhibit explores spiritual journeys"
(GA, April 8, 2009)
"...Block's work, which, at these dimensions, becomes a kind of wall itself, fills the viewer's visual field with what at first may appear to be a chaotic jumble of brightly colored graffiti-like marks. In fact, it is a very carefully orchestrated series of images echoing the allegorical quest of 30 birds in the spiritual epic of the same name written by the Persian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar in 1177...."
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