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An Interview with Douglas Blanchard

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

“I'd like to think that I've done a little bit to lift the burden of having to choose between their sexuality and their faith for some religious gay people.”

- Douglas Blanchard

What are the elements that guide someone into the arts or activism… or both? Douglas Blanchard’s muse has brought him to destinations as diverse as Kansas City and Florence, from Kentucky to the Lower East Side, from dishwasher gigs to teaching at a college level, from painting and drawing as a child in Texas to seeing his work hung at the Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Today, he lives in Brooklyn, teaches in the Bronx, and paints in Manhattan. “I've kept a studio on the Lower East Side since 1994,” Blanchard explains. “I still have it. I am one of the last working artists left in Manhattan.”

The work he does in that studio is diverse, powerful, and a catalyst for new perspectives. This very much includes the 24 paintings of a contemporary Christ in a new book called The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision. Accompanied by text from minister and art historian Kittredge Cherry, the book is a transformative collaboration.

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