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fridav. april23, 2004
FOGHAT:Crew has ambitions
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yet," Ryckert said. "They've been way better than I ever thought."
Because of classes, the crew of Foghat Live doesn't plan to film many new episodes for the rest of this semester, but crew members are ambitious about the future. Reckert said.
Ryckert said. "I want the show to evolve," Ryckert said. "We're so motivated now."
The show airs on KUJH every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 10 p.m.
- Edited by Cindy Yeo
New York political activist speaks, shares art
By Matt Rodriguez
mdrrogiguez@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Some call them picture books or comics, others might call them graphic novels, but Eric Drooker calls it his life.
Drooker exhibited his watercolors and scratchboard etchings in a slide show with a soundtrack last night to more than 100 people at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
KU Environs recruited the award-winning artist to the University of Kansas as its Earth Day speaker because he is a political artist and activist.
York City.
Drooker grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New
He said growing up in the diverse neighborhood allowed him to use his art as a way of speaking to the community.
In a neigh-
In a neighborhood with a large Spanishspeaking population, he tried to learn the language, but quickly changed his focus to communicating with art.
Drooker
He began posting his drawings on street filers throughout the Lower East Side. He said his filiers started as drawings with a headline, but he later stopped using
"I couldn't avoid stark contrasts between rich and poor, racial contrasts and just stepping over a homeless person just to get into my apartment gave me inspiration."
Eric Drooker Political artist
the headline and just drew a picture.
"I don't trust words per se, or their meaning," Drooker said. "I make a better story with pictures."
Drooker's inspiration comes from the New York City lifestyle he grew up witnessing.
he grew up in New York City where so many social contradictions were in my face, I couldn't avoid stark contrasts between rich and poor, racial contrasts and just stepping over a homeless person just to get into my apartment gave me inspiration."
His fliers show the struggles he faced while living in New York City, such as girlfriends, politics, apathetic landlords and the social issues many New Yorkers face.
Drooker incorporates politics into his work and said he avoided creating "pretty" or abstract art because it would
have been inappropriate to draw something other than politics given the circumstances in New York City.
"It's pretty impossible not to incorporate politics into art today," said Colin Manuel, Wichita senior, who attended the Drooker event.
No matter what medium it is, artists have always injected politics into their work, Drooker said.
"You'd have to do acrobatic contortions to avoid being political nowadays," Drooker said. "And even doing that would be a political statement."
Edited by Amanda Kim Stairrett
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