Artist on the witness stand

This wonderful Quaker artist tells of his inspiration and passion in illustrating the classic works of the literature of caring and passion in the face of oppression (Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Erasmus, Goethe, and many others). Art in the service of conscience, and the artist as witness, have a powerful role, though a thorny path. The artist witnesses to his own time; let it be with conscience, integrity, and caring. His own woodcuts testify to the follies, tragedy, and hope of his time of the nuclear age, war, and poverty, but also Gandhi, Dorothy Day, and the vision of the Peaceable Kingdom.
The woodcuts are wonderful.

This Quaker artist, who works mostly in wood engravings, surveys his own education and creative process.