Category: Featured Exhibit

• Meet Artist Rachel Kanter

  

  Sacred Community Artist Statement: Rachel Kanter reinvents traditional ritual objects through traditional women’s hand work and crafts.   I grew up in Syracuse, NY surrounded by women who were always making things: knitting a sweater, sewing a quilt, beading, weaving. I also grew up in a Jewish community that my family has been a part…

• Becoming Ourselves

  

  Trans and Nonbinary Joy Beautiful, happy images of trans and nonbinary (T/NB) adults and children, selected by a panel of trans youth.   In 2024, a photography exhibit opened at a Unitarian church in Montgomery County. The exhibition, “Becoming Ourselves,” was the brainchild of Rockville-based photographer, Gwen Andersen.   With the help of a bequest…

• Healing Bridges Across the Divide: Baltimore

  

  Commissioned Poets & Visual Artists  A visual-literary art exhibit that engages Jews of Color, white Jews, and non-Jewish Black artists in a collaborative journey culminating with a series of events reflecting on how visual and literary art influence our perceptions, feelings, and thoughts about each other.   Two years ago, Rain Pryor had an idea…

• Meet Artist Julie Wohl

  

  Joy Comes in the Morning Artist Statement: Julie Wohl’s mixed media fine art pieces are influenced by Jewish tradition and the natural world.   The work featured in this exhibition are tied together through their use of bright colors, flowing lines, texture and shape. Their content reflects the highs and the lows of Jewish lived…