February 25, 2024 | 1-4pm | Purchase your tickets
Led by current and past Art/Lab Fellows, members of Portland’s overlapping Jewish communities are invited to join together in making art in order to mourn, and to make sense of senseless acts. This event will be a Jewish space for introspection and respectful discussion.
We will have two simultaneous workshops, one using writing and the other involving clay. No experience is required for either option! Please indicate your top choice when you register, and see details on what you will need to bring to the workshop.
During our final hour, we will come together as one large group to share across the two approaches.
Photo credit: Leila Wice. Making Makom 5: Safety Glass. Portland, 2022.
WORKSHOP #1: BRAIDED WORDS
Facilitated by Holly Goodman writer, journalist, teacher and mother; and Merridawn Duckler, writer and visual artist.
Holly and Merridawn’s two-hour writing workshop will explore the intersection of memory, emotion and current events. Participants will first create independent pieces in response to a series of prompts. Then they will alternate text threads of multiple, sometimes disparate seeming stories, to weave them into something wholly new.
Nuts and Bolts: Bring along your preferred writing implements (electronic or analog, whatever works best).
WORKSHOP #2: SAFETY • GLASS
Facilitated by Leila Wice, ceramicist, ritual maker, and Educator Artist Fellow at the Jewish Studio Project.
Through close textual readings and then hands-on experimentation with clay and glass, we will contemplate the meaning of safety to us, both as individuals and in community.
Nuts and Bolts: We may get messy. Consider bringing an apron or old shirt to wear while we are sculpting.
Cosponsors
Art/Lab, Eastside Jewish Commons, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Accessibility
- ADA Accessible
- Air purifiers will be in use, and masks are required for participants.
- Workshop leaders will be unmasked when teaching from the front of the room. They will test for COVID before the event.