May 11, 2024 | 1 – 3pm | Tickets at bottom of page
Based on her research and writing about the golem, a mythical creature in Jewish folklore, multimedia artist ahuva s. zaslavsky will lead a hands-on sculpture workshop using clay and found materials. She will share the cultural context behind the creature before guiding participants to construct their own inner golem. All participants will get to keep their sculptures at the end of the workshop. Be careful that it doesn’t come to life when you get home!
This program is presented as part of Oregon Jews, A to Z. Come early and stay after to enjoy the exhibition.
ahuva s. zaslavsky lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She was born and raised in Tel Aviv and graduated from The University of the Negev, Israel with a BA in behavioral sciences. ahuva completed her MFA in Visual Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, earning the LR Visual Studies MFA Thesis Award. In her work, ahuva looks into the relationship of space and place to memory and trauma. Through writing, painting, printing, sculpting and other mediums, her investigations permeate the social and domestic, the cultural and psychological. Her work has been shown locally and nationally. ahuva has completed the Art/Lab fellowship in 2022 and was named to GLEAN Portland’s 2022 artist residency.
Tickets will close at 4pm on Friday, May 10.