A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 111 features a drawing of Mary of Clopas from the Easter’s Best series created by Deborah Grant in 2013. The drawing is made from acrylic, archival ink, and colored pencil on paper. The 2014 exhibition Christ You Know it Ain’t Easy!! was the largest installment of Grant’s ongoing series Random Select, which has interwoven historical accounts and personal experiences with references to contemporary political and social issues. Grant culls material from a variety of sources including magazine photographs, comic books, published texts, and art historical reference books which she masterfully translates and brings together via her signature drawing method to create highly personal, non-linear narratives that investigate politics, race, and cultural identity. In evoking African American folk artist Mary A. Bell’s style, Grant pays homage to the artists’ shared religious and cultural identities, and in these drawings, s...