Zakar Art by Chris Carter
The Zakar Art Movement began in the Restaurants and Pubs in Easton,
Pennsylvania, encouraged by the singer/songwriters who lived in the
area and often attended the Open Mic sessions at Porters' Pub and the
Indian Rock Inn. Small paintings could be found drying atop glasses of
beer and wine, spreading out across the room as the hours passed and
the music pulsed through the souls of those gathered to listen, play, sing,
dance, drink, and to paint. Word spread and soon I was painting at openings
for art exhibitions, dance performances, dance rehearsals and yoga classes,
Zumba Events and Gyrotonics.
Zakar Art is the result of the live arts collaboration between musician,
artist, and dancer/model. The term Zakar is based on a Hebrew word
meaning both celebration and remembrance, referring to a
remembering that prompts action, comparable to the mythological
Muses who inspire and whose name means 'the reminders'. Founded
in August 2004, by Pat Sonne, Chris Carter and Peter Stolvoort. Zakar
is a celebratory art that fosters simultaneous exchange between artists
of different disciplines and grants a rare perspective of art at the
moment of creation.