Tom Block is an artist, writer and activist best known for the development and implementation an activist art theory, “Prophetic Activist Art.” His activist artwork includes the Human Rights Painting Project in conjunction with Amnesty International; Shalom/Salaam Project (exhibiting and speaking throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Turkey, Egypt and other locales around the world); Response to Machiavelli Project and Cousins Public Art Project, with public art installations around the United States. His art has been exhibited more than 200 times in galleries, universities and museums throughout the United States, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Mr. Block founded the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art (2015, NY), where he teaches courses on his activist art model, and is producing New York City’s first ever International Human Rights Art Festival (March 2017 at Dixon Place, in the Lower East Side). He was also the founding producer of the Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival (Silver Spring, MD 2010) and produced the Iraq History Art Project (DePaul University, 2010). Also a playwright, Mr. Block has had his plays read and produced in Washington D.C. and New York at such venues as the Urban Stages, Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE Arts Center, Theater for the New City, Dixon Place, Theater at the 14th Street Y, Kraine Theater, Athena Theatre Company, Emerging Artists Theater, Theater Row, A.R.T.-NY, Player’s Theatre, Drama League, Hudson Guild Theater, Dramatists Guild and many others.
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Art featured in gallery show The Art of Resilience in Poetic License 2019: Resilience