The View From Here: Patrick Dougher

The View From Here is a series of conversations with Black American designers and artists focused on exploring how the environment of Black neighborhoods impacted the work of the creatives over time. Our partnership on Unearthing the Black Aesthetic opened the conversation to understanding how our built environment affects our sense of aesthetics and creative output. Here we use our platform to promote discussion with Black artists willing to partake in the discussion and share their personal experience with us. We hope to add to the conversation by showing the multiplicity of what is blanketed as the black experience. It is the hope that this can also spark conversation around topics like gentrification and identity in the built environment.
Patrick has played and recorded with Grammy award winners Sade, Chuck D (Public Enemy), and Dan Zanes as well as many other notables. He is the drummer on “Dub Side as the Moon” one of the best selling Reggae LP’s of all time.
He has worked as a Teaching Artist in NYC public schools, as an Art Therapist working with HIV positive children, and as the Director of community arts organizations. For over 20 years Patrick has used the arts to empower and support the socio-emotional growth and health of “at-risk” and disenfranchised youth of the city.
Through his art, Patrick seeks to inspire and to celebrate the noble beauty and divine nature of people of African descent and to connect urban African American culture to its roots in sacred African art, spirituality, and ritual.

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This intelligent, articulated person, lives what has been a creative extension of self. Fam you fiya!

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