Art Talk
Art, War, and Religion
Edward talks about two soldiers who use their PTSD as an engine for art.
By Edward Goldman • • 3m ListenIf you ask yourself what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has to do with art, what might your answer be?
Blue Roof Studios in Downtown LA with two artists – one an Israeli veteran, Shasha Dothan, the other, an American vet, Gerald Sheffield. Other members of the panel were Keith Jeffreys, Director of the US Veterans’ Artists Alliance, and Dr. Walter Dunn, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA.
L: Another Day-Camouflage Chaos, Shasha Dothan. R: Another Day 4 (Video Still / Photograph), Shasha Dothan. Images courtesy Gallery 667.
PTSD: People’s Trauma Showings Daily. It was a fascinating conversation about pain and psychological trauma, which, somehow, for these two artists, turned into an ongoing artistic journey.
Spiral staircase in the Vatican Museums. By Vicente Villamón [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
news coming from the Vatican, which announced, last May, the appointment of Barbara Jatta as the first female director of the Vatican Museums. It makes you think about how few major museums around the world have female Directors…
Pope Francis at Basilica Papale di Santa Maria degli Angeli in Porzinucola, Assisi. Image courtesy Instagram
Self-portrait, Andy Warhol. 1986. Image by Sharon Mollerus, Flickr
