The Journey is the Inspiration: Call for Contributors
Have you been inspired by Dan? I mean, who hasn’t really. Has his story, drawings, or photography stuck with you ever since you first saw them? Does your art or writing reflect Dan’s? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we invite you to send in your memory, story, art, drawings and creations […]
Dan Inspires in Ecuador
Students at Academia Cotopaxi International School in Quito, Ecuador transformed their personal experiences into visual autobiographies. The pages of Dan’s Journals served as inspiration for the students’ work. The high school artists featured here, Juliana Passos and Sofia Sandoval, were both enthralled by the life and work of Dan, particularly his unrelenting need to put […]
“Dancing”
Dan Eldon was always immersed deep within his thick black journals. Whether he was doodling, pasting or writing, Dan processed and pondered life within the pages of his 17 journals that were found after he was killed. Each one gives us a glimpse of his passions and adventures. “It is foolish and hazardous not to […]
Connecting Continents in the Classroom
There are 8,000 miles that separate the state of Michigan and the East African country, Tanzania, but two high school teachers didn’t let the distance keep them from connecting their classrooms. Debbi Bovio, a Rochester Community Schools art teacher, met Nora Graham, a teacher at the International School of Tanganyika through Bovio’s Student Artist Trading Cards website. They decided […]
Frank MacEowen
After the Facts Are In In memory of Dan Eldon, Daniel Pearl, and other martyrs of awareness and truth. by Frank MacEowen A heavy package arrived today, cloaked in quiet brown, layered in sand, soft to the touch, as if woven with clouds. Within it, a revelation, a seed, a mirror, reflecting back our own […]
Rye Barcott
As a student at the University of North Carolina, Rye Barcott received a BA in Peace, War, and Defense and also studied Swahili. The impetus behind this interest was partly the civil war in Rwanda and the violence brought upon youth by their peers. “I remember being glued to the TV and wondering how it […]
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