The Connecticut Artists' Beit Midrash is building a collaborative Artist’s Sukkah for New Haven's City Wide Open Studios (a sukkah is a temporary outdoor hut built for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot). It will be open for viewing during the Alternative Space Weekend. On Sunday, October 12 there will be nosh, crafts, and an opportunity to meet some of the artists. One of the themes of this sukkah is "transported nature," so feel free to bring any of your own plant cuttings to add to the sukkah.
The
Goffe Street Armory, 290
Goffe Street, New Haven, CT
Sunday,
October 12, 12-6 PM: art,
nosh and conversation
To prepare for this project, Artists
met with Rabbi Yaffe of Chabad of the Shoreline to study texts related to the
meaning of Sukkah; in particular how it helps us find comfort, light, and joy
within transition, displacement, and the temporary. Among other themes and
symbolism, the sukkah is like a birds nest--an outdoor impermanent structure
that protects, shelters, nurtures etc.
Most of the artwork will be cyanotype on cloth. Leah Caroline, a local
New Haven artist, gave cyanotype workshops with artists and young students to
make the artwork for the sukkah.
The sukkah and artworks are made by: Corina Alverezdelugo,
Leah Caroline, Hayward Gatling, Gitel Chana Levin, Shevy Levin, Chaya Sara
Naiditch, Susan Rogol, Chaskie Rogol, Haston Family, 5th Grade of SCHA. It is curated by Leah Caroline. Rabbi Yossi Yaffe, of Chabad of the
Shoreline, met with the artists to study texts relating to Sukkah.
Commissioned by Artspace, Inc, for City-Wide Open Studios
with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Connecticut Office of the Arts, and the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Materials donated by Lowes Home Improvement of Derby.
For more information, email Leah Caroline at artistbeitmidrash@gmail.com
Links: www.cwos.org and www.artistbeitmidrash.weebly.com
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