with Todd Drake
an in-person program
September 26-28, 2025
Art can change the world! Join Quaker street artist Todd Drake (aka Quaker Pirate) in a poster-making workshop. Todd will share his experience as an activist and New York City street artist, and guide you through printing your own multi-colored poster using linocut, stenciling and monoprinting techniques. Beginners, experienced visual artists, and everyone in between are welcome to attend this program.
Click here to register!
About the program leader. After selling themselves as indentured servants to escape poverty in England, my ancestors settled along the Deep River in Central North Carolina. I grew up among the woods and farmland near Guilford College and among the wetlands and coast of the Northern Outer Banks. My first exposure to Quakers was as a child when I discovered an abandoned stone meeting in High Point City Park. “ An extinct people.” I thought then. As a new parent, I discovered Quakers were alive and kicking when my wife and I enrolled our young children in New Garden Friends School. Art and nature filled my early life with mysticism and a connection to The Spirit. I have spent decades teaching the same wonder and awe to others. Later, after moving to New York City, I joined the Brooklyn Friends Meeting and began wheat pasting my relief prints on the plywooded and closed storefronts of the Covid Pandemic. I wanted my work to be points of light in a darkened city. These acts of civil disobedience have blended my art, spirituality, and leadings as a Quaker activist. I adopted the street art name Quaker Pirate to reflect that union of those parts. It is my hope that when people discover my work they feel those deep roots connecting us to each other and to The Spirit. With family now in Scotts Valley, I feel at home among the woods and sand of this region.
Program cost
Like all Quaker Center programs, this program is priced along a sliding scale – we encourage you to contribute an amount that you are okay with and that enables you to attend. We hope the suggested cost ranges below will help you to do this.
Standard rate: $200-350.
Welcome rate: $75-150.
You can learn more about Quaker Center’s program costs here.
Childcare will be provided during the program sessions, and children are welcome to come along for free.
“We imagine that their sufferings are one thing
and our life another.”– Leo Tolstoy