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Born and raised in Brooklyn New York, Patrick Dougher is a self-taught fine artist, musician, poet and actor.
Patrick has performed and recorded with Sade, the Grammy award winning Dan Zanes and many others. He has played drums with many notable reggae artists such as Black Uhuru’s Michael Rose and Steel Pulses’ David Hinds and Hip Hop star Chuck D of Public Enemy. Patrick also played drums on “The Dub Side of the Moon” one of the bestselling reggae LPs of all time.
He has performed his poetry for the WNET Open Mic series as well as BRIC TV and venues around NYC. Patrick was a lead actor in the Ping Chong 651 Arts theatre production “Brooklyn 63” which toured in 2014.
Patrick worked as an art therapist with HIV positive children at Kings County Hospital, a co-curator at the Museum of African Art, a youth counselor and teaching artist at Project Reach and Studio in a School and most recently as the Program Director of Groundswell, NYC’s premier community mural arts organization where he oversaw and directed over 300 public mural projects throughout the city. He is currently working as he Interim Director of Education for BRIC Arts Media and as a freelance consultant with The Center for Court Innovations. For over 20 years Patrick has used the arts to empower and support the socio-emotional growth of at-risk and disenfranchised youth of the city.
Patrick’s art reflects his life’s mission to inspire and empower by honestly and fearlessly holding up a mirror to society’s inequity and injustices. Through his art he seeks to celebrate the noble beauty and divine spiritual nature of people of African descent and to connect urban African-American culture to its roots in sacred African art and ceremony.
[…] Patrick Dougher lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. At present, he is actively working as inspiration hits. His current project is a collage piece but he has a solo exhibition coming up in the approaching weeks. Much of the work for this show he hasn’t seen in some time which he says feels like reuniting with old friends. The exhibition, titled God Body, will be on view at Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn. To hear more about this and about Dougher’s other work, listen to the complete interview. […]
[…] Patrick Dougher lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. At present, he is actively working as inspiration hits. His current project is a collage piece but he has a solo exhibition coming up in the approaching weeks. Much of the work for this show he hasn’t seen in some time which he says feels like reuniting with old friends. The exhibition, titled God Body, will be on view at Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn. To hear more about this and about Dougher’s other work, listen to the complete interview. […]