Writing Toward Healing
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COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
Walker Farm Rd., 2016 (oil on panel, 72x95) by Damian Stamer
They, too, ended, and the men who went, most of them, came back, more or less whole. In New Hope, North Carolina, hope rose up and was erased and raised again, reiterated, hope, no hope, new hope, in a name, a hymn, a clutch of warm eggs in the coop, corn kernels in a white enamel bowl.
DAMIAN STAMER was born in Durham, NC, and has been featured in NCLR 2015 and 2017. He received his BFA in painting from Arizona State University, then studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. He returned to his native state to earn his MFA in Studio Art from UNC Chapel Hill. His work has been featured in numerous galleries, including Koki Arts, Craven Allen Gallery, North Carolina Museum of Art, Galerie Michael Schultz, Freight + Volume, and Rewaq Gallery of the University of Sharjah. The artist was awarded a US Fullbright Grant in 2008 and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in 2011. In 2014, he was a finalist for the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, and he participated in the 2017 BAF International Artist Residency Program. See more of his work on his website.