Last month, I had a chance to work with students at Baruch College to create a remembrance quilt for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Hillel partnered with the Art Club at Baruch and the InterVarsity Club to create this lunchtime…
A couple weeks ago, I visited my daughter's preschool class to help them turn their lessons about spring into fabric art. At that point, it certainly didn't feel like spring, but they used their imaginations and did such a fabulous…
Each year, the fourth graders at Kol Ami learn about the Chassidic movement and hold a mock wedding at the end of the unit. Last year, I worked with the students to make a chuppah for their wedding. This year,…
Thanks to a grant from the Jaime A. Hulley Arts Foundation, I was able to bring an art workshop to my old junior high school (now a middle school). The eighth graders were learning about the Social Reform Movement and…
Earlier this month, our family went to Princeton NJ for an amazing weekend at Limmud NY. While my kids attended the fabulous Camp Ramah and Geoff taught about science and religion, I taught a couple fiber art workshops. Participants were encouraged…
On Sunday, I had the opportunity to return to Beth El Synagogue Center to work with the sixth graders and their families. They studied the Torah portions for their upcoming Bnai Mitzvah and then created a piece of fabric art…
In October, I had the privilege of working with Kol Ami's fabulous sixth grade class during their Sukkot festival. The class spoke about refugees and the holiday of Sukkot in the weeks leading up to the program. Then, on the…
Earlier this month, I visited the JCC of Harrison to make covers for the Torah with the sixth graders. The students and their parents read the Torah portions for their upcoming Bnai Mitzvah and then created fabric art that will…
As Maker-in-Residence at the Harrison Public Library, I'm teaching fiber art workshops each month from October through December. In October, families made family flags and earlier this month, the ESL students made art about what America means to them. Once…
