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One Nation Exhibition at the Heller Museum
One Nation exhibition at the Heller Museum, NYC, features my “Stanton St. Amulet”
CANVAS Grant
Thrilled to be quoted in the CANVAS Compendium, AND be a grant recipient (for the Jewish Art Salon).
Together Again at Stanton Street Projects
“SIVAN” will be on view at the Stanton Street Projects, NYC, December 15-April 2, 2023
My artwork Caute – Spinoza at Miami Art Week
My artwork “Caute – Spinoza” is on view at the Jada Art Fair Miami Art Week, on South Beach near Fontainebleau at the Miami Beach JCC. This painting examines Dutch Sephardic philosopher Spinoza’s complex legacy.
Holy Sparks Exhibition in Indianapolis
The Center for Interfaith Cooperation (CIC) is hosting the exhibition in partnership with Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, JCC Indianapolis, the Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and The Braid.
Amen Institute Fellows Virtual Exhibition
Amen Institute Exhibition Presentation - Sunday October 23. My presentation from 3:30-3:45 pm ET.
Samaritans: A Biblical People features my Tabernacles
“Tabernacles” contemporary art at the Museum of the Bible’s Samaritan exhibition
CANVAS Compendium
One driving force behind JAS is its president, Yona Verwer, who creates atmospheric, evocative artworks in a variety of media.
18th World Congress of Jewish Studies
In the beginning of the 21st century the Jewish art world in New York was a desert for artists. In 2008 two artists, Yona Verwer and Holly Wolf, founded an artists’ community for those working with Jewish themes.
PAUSE: Jewish Heritage Month - Ways of Being
Four of my artworks in the exhibition PAUSE at 81 Leonard Gallery, NYC.
What’s Your Sign? Featured in Kolture
Featured in Kolture, (“Kol” meaning “voice” & “all” in Hebrew), the digital content platform for Jewish arts & culture.
Mayim Chaiyim - Watershed Exhibition
April 5, at 7:45pm ET - virtual opening for the “Mayim Chaiyim - Watershed” exhibition at the Koslowe Gallery at the Westchester Jewish Center. Ends June 28, 2022.
The exhibition explores themes of renewal and repair of our fragile waters.
Here is one of the two works I have in the show “Book of Yona”
Take a virtual tour here:
https://www.artsteps.com/view/62128ba1c3d6270106460e3b/5
Curator: Amy Goldberger Levine-Kennedy
HOLY SPARKS: 50 YEARS OF WOMEN IN THE RABBINATE
My artwork Mem, based on Rabbi Gesa Ederberg in Berlin, is featured in this exhibition at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in NYC. I was one of 24 leading artists selected for this groundbreaking exhibition.
The Holy Sparks exhibition at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in NYC pairs artists with 24 women rabbis to illuminate the creativity, commitment, and vision of women who were “firsts” in their time.
Amen Institute Articulation
It was such a pleasure to participate in The Amen Institute's Articulation with rabbi Baruch Jean Thaler, moderated by Dvir Cahana.
See the VIDEO: https://fb.watch/dbgx525Gq6/ recorded live on Sunday May 22.
I presented my brand new sculpted artworks, made chavruta style with Rabbi Baruch Jean Thaler, based on parshat Bechukotai.
In the Amen Institute's Fellow program artists were paired with rabbis to study a Torah portion. Together they worked through theological and spiritual questions that come from this biblical text.