1999 Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium

Media Meltdown

Howard Kurtz

Drue

Sumi-e Artist Drue Kataoka's original painting was the signature image for the print commemorating Howard Kurtz as the 1999 Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Symposium: Media Meltdown: An Examination of the Scandalous Press. Drue uses the ancient Japanese art technique of Sumi-e to capture the whirling vortex of media power and the loss of control in modern mass communication. The Department of Special Collections at Stanford University has archived over two dozen prints of Drue's sumi-e paintings