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Gazette Newspapers:
"A Voting Arts 'Block' to Highlight Human Rights"
(Silver Spring, MD, August 1, 2007)
"When local artist Tom Block was commissioned in June to install a public art piece along the entrance wall to the Kennett Street parking lot, he wanted to bring back the "public" into public art...."
Gazette Newspapers:
"Give Salaam, Shalom and Peace a Chance"
(Silver Spring, MD, February 28, 2007)
"'Convergences: Towards a Jewish/Muslim Renewal,' with artwork by Karim
Chaibi and Tom Block, who are Muslim and Jewish, respectively, 'explores
the positive aspects of the Jewish/Muslim liaison,' insists Heliport’s
curator David Fogel...."
PeaceTalks FM (radio interview)
http://peacetalks.fm/lounge.php
(scroll to the bottom of the page)
(Calgary, Canada, February 12,
2007
CoffeeHouse
TV (television interview)
http://www.archive.org/stream/coffeehouse_Convergence1/Convergence1.mp4
(Takoma
Park, MD, February 9, 2007
Gazette Newspapers:
"Art helps religions converge, emerge enlightened"
(Silver Spring, MD, January 31, 2007)
"Two artists, one Jewish and one Muslim, examine their faiths’ common
ground in upcoming exhibit. Through their art, Tom Block and Karim Chaibi
hope people can see more of the similarities between the Jewish and Muslim
religions
and less of the misunderstandings...."
Washington Jewish Week:
"Art overcoming politics"
(Washington D.C., January 25, 2007)
"...Much of the current enmity between Jews and Muslims is based on history,
but there is "a whole positive history that is ignored," says
Block, also 43, pointing to the period between the seventh and 15th centuries
when
Arabs and Jews lived together in the Middle East in amity...."
Gazette Newspapers:
"Tom
Block's 'Cousins' Mixes Abstraction, Philosophy"
(Silver Spring, MD, August 31 2005)
"A group of small acrylic paintings on paper, combining areas of color,
line drawings and bits of text, is on view at Space 7:10. Located inside
the
Kefa Café on Bonifant Street in downtown Silver Spring, this new art
venue is just the sort of place where artist Tom Block prefers to exhibit
his provocative
work...."
Greensboro News-Record:
"Tom
Block: The Human Rights Painting Project"
(Greensboro, NC, July 28, 2005)
"....Thickly painted expressionist
portraits of the survivors line the white gallery walls. Grim reality is balanced
by rich color giving the work emotional vibrancy. Each work is accompanied
by a brief written description of the travails of these victims. Many have
overcome their personal anguishes to become champions for justice...."
Baltimore Sun:
"Growth,
Struggles Reflected in Exhibit"
(Baltimore, MD, July 15, 2005)
"...Tom Block of Silver Spring makes large, boldly colored portraits
that depict individuals involved in the struggle for human rights around
the world.
Jessica
Damen of Baltimore paints colorful, textured works focused on children
and the experiences of growing up...."
Winston-Salem Journal:
"In the Struggle"
(Winston-Salem, NC, July 3, 2005)
"Tom Block began his professional life as a writer, but over the past 15 years
he has developed a parallel career as a visual artist. Since the late 1990s
he has focused his artistic energies largely on the creation of serial artworks
that explore social, political and philosophical issues, he said in a recent
telephone interview from his home on the outskirts of Washington...."
Washington Jewish Week:
"Art
in the Service of Politics"
(Washington DC, September 9, 2004)
"Tom Block is an artist with an activist bent. Art has traditionally 'been
prophetic and inspirational,' says
the Silver Spring painter, whose works are on exhibit at two local venues,
with
two more shows set to open next month...."
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