Media
Artist Maureen Drdak’s Pioneering Process Inspired by Nepalese Techniques, Alaina Johns, City Wide
Meet the only American artist who works with this ancient technique from Nepal, Bethany Ao, The Inquirer.
Tradition and Innovation: Maureen Drdak, a video by Gary Wornell. The American visual artist and Fulbright Fellow speaks about her work with Newar repoussé Master Rabindra Shakya in his atelier in Patan, Nepal.
Local woman transforms sheet metal into works of art. Watch the report from Action News, By Photojournalist Dan Sheridan. Friday, March 29th, 2019 5:35PM. A local artist is using unique and unconventional techniques to transform sheet metal. Maureen Drdak is a classically trained painter who is evolving her craft. Action News Photojournalist Dan Sheridan went to her studio in Ardmore to see her work first-hand.
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KATHMANDU CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY CENTER for ART and DESIGN
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
FELLOWSHIP of the PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
The KATHMANDU VALLEY PRESERVATION TRUST
CATALOGS, Writings, and Reviews
Eternal Visions - Contemporary Forms, SPACES Magazine, September 2017, pg.65
Eternal Visions - Contemporary Forms: Rabindra Shakya - Maureen Drdak
EX VOTO: Maureen Drdak, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum
The Flying Nagas, Himalaya Journal
The Nagas: Prakriti's Protectors: MARG Magazine, Volume 65 Number 1, September 2013
Art and Process; Kathmandu Post, Sophia Pandé, 2015-11-29
Heavy metal: repoussé synthesis innovator Maureen Drdak - in conversation
PDF of Art Radar interview HERE
Reworking Repoussé: The Spiritual Power in Maureen Drdak’s Fusion Metal Art; Buddhistdoor Global, Meher McArthur
Reworking Repoussé: Meher McArthur PF version
US-Nepali Art, Sonia Awale, April 24, 2019