Jewish Art Workshops
for children, adults and families
I began giving Jewish Art workshops in the 1990's, as I realized I could combine my love for expression through Visual Art with my passion for teaching. In 1996 I ran Jerusalem Birthday Card workshops at seven religious schools from Hammond, IN to Naperville to Highland Park, IL. The top twenty five cards were selected and those children participated in a finishing workshop, where each student artist was matched to an adult professional artist. Parents had their child's art work framed.....we exhibited them at JCC's and other venues in the Chicagoland area and Israel,
Above: blow-up of a card from the Jerusalem Birthday Card Project
Banners celebrating Shabbat& the Yom Tovim
below: Heroines of Israel mural,
(details)
Bnai Tikvah Congregation, Deerfield, IL
I created this mural to recognize the important part Jewish women, the chalutzim, played in the rebirth of the Jewish nation.
above: Bereshit/Bereshis Banner family workshop. Center: Purim Jack-in the-boxes
above, clockwise from upper left corner: Ushpizin (succot/Succos " Yosef" visitor's chair, Shavuot/Shavuos Tikkun Olam mural, Flowers of Israel, Purim masks, model sukkah.
ABOVE, lower right corner: she's holding a "Yiddish Kite" a real working kite! In this project, students choose a Yiddish or Hebrew word then illustrate it on a plastic kite skin that's attached to a frame. Yes, the kites really fly!
The 2004-05 O'Hare International Airport Student Art Exhibit:
"The History of Flight"
In 2004 Ms. Diane Chandler (Bureau of Language and Fine Arts, Chicago Public Schools) asked me to lead a teachers task force. Our objective was to mount an exhibit at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. We assembled and mounted over four hundred drawings. These pictures are from my 6TH, 7TH & 8TH grade artists at Dumas Elementary School in the Woodlawn neighborhood. The exhibit theme was the History of Flight.
Academy of Our Lady High School,
Beverly neighborhood, Chicago, IL
1975-78
It was my first teaching assignment at this Catholic High School, and this twenty plus foot high wall relief involved dozens of Applied Design students.
