At two, my daughter developed strong opinions about what she wanted to wear. The brighter the better! Now, at three-and-a-half, she still loves to mix patterns and colors. I wanted to capture her unique style in a piece, so I…
In my last blog post, I started explaining how my art piece about the instinct to protect our children came to life. In that post, you can read all about the inspiration and how I created the quilt with layers…
As a parent, especially of young children, my instinct is to keep them safe - to shelter them from everything. My kids are one and a half and three and a half. I don't want them to know there are…
One of the biggest challenges I've encountered in being a mother is guilt. It comes from so many different sources every day and it's exhausting. When I thought about how to depict this ubiquitous, and sometimes conflicting guilt for my parenthood series,…
I don't think I'm alone in feeling like I have put much of myself aside when I became a mother. At first, it was natural. Of course my child (and then children) were the center of my world. Everything else…
Earlier this week, I visited the Pre-K class at Kol Ami's Early Childhood Program. The students have been learning about Jerusalem, so we used that as the inspiration for our art. First, we started our design work with crayons on…
On Sunday, kindergarten and first grade families at Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester created art about the Jewish values that the students are discussing in school. Each group was assigned one of eight Jewish values and they started with…
This past weekend, I was proud to be one of 623 artists whose work was part of the Nasty Women Exhibition in Queens, NY. My piece Bringing Light to the Darkness, along with the other artists' work, was displayed on three dimensional…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm starting a series about life as a parent and an artist. I started three different pieces during a week long workshop with Sandra Sider in late September and finally finished one of them.…
Yesterday, families at Woodlands Community Temple created fiber art about social justice causes that were important to them. The inspiration for the art was a new tradition called Ner Shel Tzedakah, which calls for families to devote the sixth night of Hanukkah…