Artist and curator Cecelia Kane spearheaded an acclaimed art initiative with 195 artists, “Hand to Hand,” to raise consciousness about the ongoing Iraq War, documenting each week until the war ended, by using gloves as the support for the art. My assignment, the week of April 28-May 3, 2008, followed The “Green Zone” in Sadr […]
In going through boxes of vintage family photographs at a local antique shop, I noticed that many did not have documentation or names of family members; formal group portraits from the “old country” in Eastern Europe showed the matriarch and patriarch sitting stiffly in the middle while other family members stared directly into the camera.
The Jewish calendar year is made up of many boundaries of time, with special rituals or traditions associated with each commemorative holiday celebration; the fall festival of Sukkot reminds us of the Exodus from Egypt and wandering of 40 years. Schach is the Hebrew word for a temporary open roof constructed for a dwelling or
The Stop Series, shown in 3 WCAGA Art+Activism exhibitions in metro Atlanta including 2Rules Gallery (Marietta), Mammal Gallery (Atlanta), Shambhala Center (Decatur), the Jewish Cultural Center in Chattanooga, TN and the AGJA show at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, OK was also on loan in the conference meeting room at the
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While browsing through local antique shops, I often find interesting vintage textiles, like this red and white checkerboard tablecloth whose blank white spaces became the perfect support to draw whimsical ways of how one finds sanctuary when one enters his or her home. The people depicted seem safe and secure amid an outside world of
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Twisted random lines of string on paper support floating figures struggling to find freedom. The subconscious visual language reflects my personal reflections as a working artist who is also wife, mother, grandmother, friend and volunteer – roles defined, yet still evolving within their own boundaries of commitment and time. With what I call life interruptions,