Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 Marlene D’Orazio Adler I Surrender Medium: Handmade paper with embedded black glass/string and Caran d’Ache Crayons In the fall of 2019 my car was broken into and two windows were smashed while I was attending an annual...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 Washington’s Other Monuments For the past seventeen years, I have been intensively documenting the numerous homemade shrines to victims of murder and violence that appear throughout the Washington DC area. I am deeply compelled by their heartbreaking...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 Karen Shain Schloss Beth Sholom Commemoration Full sized sketch and to-scale final photograph Last February I was asked by the Executive Director of Beth Sholom Congregation to create a large scale paper cut to commemorate the refurbishing...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 Having spent the past 16 years running an art program for mainly Black teenagers, I have had the incredible experience of coming to know wonderful kids and parents. The Black Lives Matter Movement and marching for...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 DIANA TAFLIN MYERS Diana Myers is an artist who creates sculptures, assemblages and collages with mixed media. She has studied art history and fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Cheltenham and other...
Moral Compass: Artists Respond to Crises Temple Judea Museum exhibition January – March 2021 Over these many years my work has consistently been non-objective, meaning that it is concerned with expressing my ideas about shape, color, light, dark, texture etc., the formal elements that artists use to create a visual image....
Every day I am hearing about another friend or family member who received their Vaccine or at last the first dose of the Vaccine. I admit to feeling a little envious, that their safety net has arrived and they may feel less nervous about moving freely back into the world....
We are in the middle of the most dramatic, most pivotal, most intense, most action filled, and most consequential Torah portions in the Torah! The portion of Bo is the third section in the book of Exodus. We learn about the eighth, ninth, and tenth and final plagues that the...
CHELTENHAM, Jan. 8 – State Rep. Napoleon Nelson, D-Montgomery, announced that Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel received $265,000 in a state Growing Greener grant to help replace impervious parking pavement with bioretention features and two rain gardens. The congregation said the project also will include planting trees and building plant beds. “Our community...
This week has been a traumatic time for the American people. On our televisions, cell phones, and iPads, we have seen images that previously would have been unimaginable with the Capitol building in Washington, D.C being attacked and trashed by an unruly and vengeful mob. We have read in history...
