David Keefe holds a MFA with a speciality in printmaking and painting, and is a practicing artist in New Jersey. He’s also a Marine vet, who served in Iraq, 2006-2007. Needless to say, when the ...
Most veterans might stash their old combat uniforms in the closet, but Drew Cameron had a different notion: Why not turn them into handmade paper that becomes the foundation for artwork? The idea was ...
The nationally known art initiative Combat Paper Project first launched at the Green Door Studio in Burlington’s South End in 2007 and is now based in San Francisco. Cofounder and Iraq War veteran ...
A small arts studio nestled in the hills of Branchburg, N.J. is giving U.S. veterans a platform to share their stories and experiences through the art of making paper. Nearly a decade ago, Frontline ...
Mondayâ s work from the Combat Paper project lies on a table after drying over night Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, at the Rampart Campus of Pikes Peak Community College. Old military uniforms are made into ...
The veterans and their artwork reflect wide political views, the two explain. Many artists are neither anti-war nor anti-military but are simply having trouble re-integrating into civilian life ...
Walt Nygard’s Marine uniforms were long gone. “They disappeared into a Goodwill bin back in 1970,” shortly after he returned from his tour in Vietnam, he said. But that didn’t keep Nygard — a Teaneck, ...