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UNTITLED, Suzanne Sclove
A note from the artist: This collage combines Jewish American ephemera and photos that range from the 1930s to 2015. My goal was to feature Jewish life cycle events where Jews gather as a community in both good and bad times. It was also important to me to show continuity and change at the same time. You will notice that the older photos are very traditional such as a male cantor and a bar mitzvah boy. I chose to include photos from my own daughters’ b’not mitzvah in 2015 to show the emerging role of women over time in the American Jewish community. If you look closely, the ephemera includes a wedding invitation, a high holiday ticket, high holiday cards, and even a copy of my own Jewish Day School report card! The measuring tape and sewing elements are a nod to Jews like my own great-grandfather who worked as tailors or in the garment business when they came to this country. This piece is a celebration of where we have come from and where we are now, always coming together and finding strength as a community.
About the artist: Suzanne Sclove is a collage and mixed media artist who uses vintage photos and flea market finds in her work. Suzanne’s work largely focuses on photos of women from the past. Suzanne often attempts to make her pieces feel like the contents of grandma’s purse have exploded onto a canvas. Originally from Toronto, Ontario Suzanne has also been heavily influenced by her Jewish education and upbringing. You can often find Suzanne either futzing in her craft room or wandering antique stores and flea markets to gather material. Suzanne currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and is a very proud mom of three the daughters.
THEO’S DOUBLE SCROLL, Leslie Nobler
A note from the artist: Typically I invest in looking into history, looking backwards, so to speak, to create contemporary mixed media/digital, book and fiber art with both technical flair and meaningful content. I am driven to use advanced artistic tools and the media at my disposal to convey strong narratives. The process begins with art historical, socio-political and Jewish cultural research. Delving into and responding to the histories of (mostly) women across varied times and cultures, entering their spheres of creativity, and sometimes spirituality, however remotely, has taken me on a powerful journey. I can reinterpret my subjects' artworks and eras using endless mixed media and far-flung imaginative ideas. Then with all these tools, I compose a dense, complex – with a surprising blend of materials – collage. In these examples, I am celebrating the energy of our Jewish ancestors, their creativity, and the power of light, with its many metaphorical interpretations; and in two pieces I specifically honor the Jewish artist, Sonia Terk Delaunay. The candle image, in particular was created for an artist's Beit Midrash, using light's meanings as a topic; later I superimposed lines from a prayer about taking action towards justice in the world. Just like Delaunay, I aim to seduce the viewer with color, pattern and materials, offering up a deeper thought-provoking subtext, as I also hope to reawaken viewers to the beauty of ancestral languagues.
About the artist: Leslie Nobler works in digital, mixed media, fiber and book arts. She holds a BFA from University of Michigan and MFA from CUNY - Hunter College. An emerita Art Professor, Nobler has received International Digital Art Awards, artist's grants from the Surface Design Association, Puffin Foundation, and others, along with residencies at rextile art centers; her artist's books/prints are in numerous unversity and museum collections. Nobler's exhibitions include New York Visual Arts Museum's Digital Salons, New Jersey State Museum, Noyes and Montclair Art Museums (NJ), Old Main Art Museum (AZ), Athenaeum Museum (PA), Kemper Museum of Art (MO), Oslo Jewish Museum, Afrigraphics of Pretoria, Eurographics in Barcelona, Nanjing Art Institute, and Symposia on Digital Art in Bangkok and London. Nobler's work has been featured in the New York Times, NJ Star-Ledger, Surface Design Journal, Leonardo, Textiles: The Art of Mankind, The Nomadic Image: Explorations at the intersections of art, science, & culture, (University of Melbourne) and the Review/Midwest. Her recent portrait project was featured in New Jersey Jewish News, Rewriting Herstory: Volume Two (Victory Hall Press) and WomensWork.art.
UNTITLED, Tali Margolin
A note from the artist: In my artworks I use non traditional materials, bringing a wide range of associations and emotional and psychological moods. The completed artworks have a complex surface with many nuances and unique details that reveal themselves over time. The surface is sealed with a coating of acrylic medium for decay resistance. But metaphorically the process of applying layers of materials represents my personal layered world where different places and cultures are connected to each other.
About the artist: Tali Margolin is a visual artist working in acrylic, oil and mixed-media. In her artworks Margolin uses non traditional materials, bringing a wide range of associations and emotional and psychological moods. Tali Margolin holds BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY and MA, Art from Lehman College, NYC. Margolin has had solo exhibitions at Munson Museum of Art, NY; Duluth Art Institute, MN; GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, PA; Noyes Museum of Art, NJ; Delaplaine Arts Center, MD; ArtsQuest Arts Center, PA; Marks JCH, NY; Hastings on Hudson Art Gallery, NY; Workhouse Arts Center, VA; BSB Gallery, NJ, two-person show at Gallery Route One, CA. Margolin's work has been part of group shows at Penn State Abington Art Gallery; Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; Taipei Economic and Cultural Center, NY; LBI Foundation for Arts and Science, NJ; Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; Gallery Aferro, NJ; Trestle Gallery, NY; Pierro Gallery, NJ; 440Gallery, NYC; American Artists Professional League, NY; Philadelphia Sketch Club, PA; Governor's Island, NYC; Target Gallery, VA; and others.
UNTITLED, Michele Slogoff
A note from the artist: This piece is a multimedia piece with acrylic painting over collage. The prompt of L'dor v'dor brings up a lot of emotion for me personally. The collage is the background of Jewish life through multiple generations while the painting in the foreground represents the beginning of one child's Jewish education.
About the artist: Michele Slogoff is a multimedia artist who grew up in Houston, Texas but now resides in the far west suburbs of Chicago. She is a physician who began painting during the pandemic lockdown. What started as a way to pass time became first a mindfulness exercise and then a true emotional journey. As both an artist and a doctor, the focus of her work is people. Her objective is to capture emotion and the feelings of daily life in her artwork. Although she is a member of some artist communities on social media, she does not have her own social media presence at the current time.
THE INFINITE DIVINE, Donicé Kaufman
A note from the artist: I weave fragments of found paper, paint, and thread to trace the invisible loops that bind memory, ritual, and motion. Braided cords and recurring rings—most often forming the figure eight—become pathways: the eighony (two interlocking loops in dynamic equilibrium), and practical transformation (eight as a number of regeneration, rebirth, and material abundance). Women—both as makers and subjects—appear throughout the work, their hands and garments rendt as symbol of continuity and renewal (endlessness and cyclical return), balance and harmered in collage and mark-making to honor traditions of craft, care, and domestic labor in mixed-media practice. Birds and human figures move together as witnesses and companions: avian motifs signal migration, freedom, and the fragile archive of memory. Braids and eights hold moments of flight, grief, and quiet witness—while torn edges and stained surfaces keep history visible and imperfect. The work asks viewers to follow the connections between female presence, animal companions, human gesture, and the stories stitched into everyday detritus, inviting a slow reading of grief and resilience.
About the artist: Donicé is a self-taught mixed-media artist whose work draws on Jewish identity, cosmopolitan upbringing, and a lifelong intuitive practice across painting, textiles, pottery, and found materials. Blending traditional craft with contemporary experimentation, she creates collages, mixed media pieces, and Judaica that foreground color, texture, and recurring motifs—birds, trees, ritual objects—to explore identity, memory, resilience, and spiritual connection. Her pieces mine personal, cultural, and ecological histories to evoke introspection and communal belonging. Donicé’s work has appeared in group exhibitions and private collections.
GROW, GROW, Donicé Kaufman
A note from the artist: Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’
About the artist: Donicé is a self-taught mixed-media artist whose work draws on Jewish identity, cosmopolitan upbringing, and a lifelong intuitive practice across painting, textiles, pottery, and found materials. Blending traditional craft with contemporary experimentation, she creates collages, mixed media pieces, and Judaica that foreground color, texture, and recurring motifs—birds, trees, ritual objects—to explore identity, memory, resilience, and spiritual connection. Her pieces mine personal, cultural, and ecological histories to evoke introspection and communal belonging. Donicé’s work has appeared in group exhibitions and private collections.
UNTITLED, Abigail Finch
A note from the artist: I am a lifelong sci-fi and fantasy fan. I've always been fascinated by how heroes and heroines have been Jewish-coded over time. One early example of this is Superman, created in the 1930s by the Cleveland duo of Siegel and Schuster. His backstory can be read as a Moses allegory, and his Kryptonian name of Kal-El also translates to "voice of G-d" in Hebrew. By that logic, Clark's cousin Kara Zor-El/Supergirl is also Jewish-coded. In the current films, Supergirl is played by British actress Millie Alcock, and Superman is played by American actor David Corenswet, who is the first Jewish actor to play the role. I created this fan-art to show that Jewish heroes and heroines can be front and center, not just subtly hinted at for the audience to ignore.
About the artist: Abigail Finch is an author, artist, and sci-fi fantasy enthusiast.
Floral Prayers: One Bloom, Every Story, Carol Kelley
A note from the artist: This is what these images stand for: A prayer for gentleness, even now. Remembrance, compassion, and a refusal to look away. Honoring lives and stories that must not be forgotten. Silence was never an option. Part of my mission is to give back. A percentage of sales supports efforts focused on healing, recovery, and the long process of rebuilding after trauma.
About the artist: Carol Felley is the founder of Never Silent Studio and a mental health trauma therapist whose work integrates art and a lived understanding of how experiences are carried, expressed, and transformed. Following the events of October 7, 2023, her artistic focus shifted toward an ongoing body of work centered on witnessing, remembrance, and resilience. Through her Floral Prayers: One Bloom, Every Story collection, she created 251 individual panels to honor each hostage, offering a visual act of remembrance while holding space for grief and healing. Carol’s work is grounded in the belief that art can bear witness where words fall short, carrying memory forward with clarity, compassion, and presence.
UNTITLED, Danielle Atkins
A note from the artist: This body of work explores the search for transcendence in the face of the realities of a post October 7th world. Since that fateful date, a search for answers and meaning has driven me to augment my exploration of what it means to be a modern Jewish and Israeli woman with the fundamental questions of humanity and morality to be found in the study of ancient Jewish texts. These large scale constructions on canvas are inspired by my experiences as a Jewish wife and mother raising three boys in a chaotic and often hostile modern world. My gaze looks both inward, at the ever-changing female body and its perceptions as an object of desire, stability and resentment, and outward, to a broader world increasingly dominated by consumerism, isolation and antisemitism. The stories of Tamar, Ruth, and Jacob are woven together with intimate and everyday objects such as Israeli fruit boxes with the discarded belongings of my children infused with thread, staples, and paint. This project is invested in spiritual lineage and modern anxieties. Physical objects and stories from the Torah are ignited in the female form, revealing a simultaneously sacred and threatened identity landscape. Identity is shaped by memory, inherited narratives, and our ancient stories. Identity Landscapes is my attempt to render the complexity of being a woman, a mother, a Jew, and a human in a turbulent world. Through layering, stitching, and material reclamation, I hope to build a visual language for resilience, memory, and transformation.
About the artist: Danielle Baron Atkins is a painter working in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY. Her work examines the female form as well as the many roles of women in our contemporary society. She abstracts, dissects, and exaggerates the female form. The women she depicts sit and stand in suggestive poses, often wearing stilettos. These anonymous figures exude sexuality, fertility, and motherhood. She utilizes a juxtaposition of delicate, stereotypically “feminine” colors with repetitive, aggressive, graffiti-like markings. Danielle repurposes remnants of her children’s discarded belongings such as broken headphones (used during school lock downs), worn out crocks and skateboarding sneakers, underwear bands that have lost their elasticity, socks and mittens that have abandoned their partner, candy wrappers, torn vintage comic books found under her children’s beds, old cookbooks, pill bottle tops, cardboard packages, and junk mail to accentuate her underlying themes. Motherhood has deeply affected her art making process. Danielle’s sharp observations of the roles and struggles of women create an ever-evolving definition of womanhood.
UNTITLED, Abigail Finch
A note from the artist: Be on the lookout for cloaked identifiers. The numbers and images represented here are hate symbols commonly used by white supremacist groups, hate movement ideologies, and individuals. Below are their meanings. 100% is shorthand among white supremacists for "100% white”. Variations are abundant. Some white supremacists will refer to themselves as "101% white," for example. Occasionally the percentage "123%" appears, which also means "100% white," as the 23 refers to W, the 23rd letter of the alphabet. Additionally, caution must be used in evaluating instances of this symbol's use, as most uses of this symbol are not, in fact, white supremacist in nature. The number 109 is white supremacist numeric shorthand for an antisemitic claim that Jews have been expelled from 109 different countries. Various antisemites have compiled lists of alleged Jewish “expulsions” ranging from 100 to more than 1,000 in number, but the figure of 109 is the most commonly cited and probably originates with a list of “109 locations” appearing on a longstanding Australian antisemitic website.
About the artist: Robin L. Bernstein was born in St Louis, Missouri into a distinctly non-artistic family. Luckily, music was played and encouraged which lay the groundwork for creative, visual expression. Bernstein studied Art in St Paul, MN, Champaign-Urbana, IL, and San Francisco, CA, before settling in Emeryville and Canyon, CA. She earned her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute but upon discovering wood construction began to combine woodcarvings with thinly cut sheet metal, hammered together with thousands of tiny escutcheon pins. Years later, and along a similarly obsessive vein, she began pressing colored string into wax after learning about the Huichol Indians and their spiritual practices in Central Mexico. Robin’s current subject matter combined with her artistic technique is her way of shouting from the rooftops: those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Human behavior being highly predictable, after all.
Robin and her husband have two children, now young adults.
UNTITLED, Lisa Karachinsky
A note from the artist: A bold statement with deep meaning. More than a symbol, the evil eye is a guardian of energy—a timeless emblem of protection. This meticulously hand-studded design blends positive energy with modern artistry. Precision in every detail, power in every reflection.
About the artist: Lisa Karachinsky, a seasoned designer with over 20 years of experience in the fashion industry, is proud to introduce her visionary collection of leather wall art-where high fashion meets fine art. With a portfolio that includes designing handbags for Nicole Richie's House of Harlow l960 and Bitten by Sarah Jessica Parker, Lisa brings her Avant-Garde sensibility to the world of interiors. Lisa has built her career in New York, LA, Toronto, and Montreal, where she's collaborated with celebrity brands, luxury retailers, and private label fashion brands. Her work has been featured in top-tier fashion editorials and sold in prestigious retailers across North America, including Holt Renfrew, Nordstrom, and Bergdorf Goodman. Now, Karachinsky's design shifts from Fashion to Interiors. Her leatherbased creations blur the boundaries between fashion and fine art, using rich textures, fringe, and studded embellishments to create visually commanding, tactile pieces that elevate any luxury space. Each artwork is a statement-infused with Lisa's personal craftsmanship, striking detail, and a deep-rooted sense of high fashion. This collection marks a bold step in redefining the role of leather in contemporary art and design.
THEO’S DOUBLE SCROLL, Leslie Nobler
A note from the artist: Typically I invest in looking into history, looking backwards, so to speak, to create contemporary mixed media/digital, book and fiber art with both technical flair and meaningful content. I am driven to use advanced artistic tools and the media at my disposal to convey strong narratives. The process begins with art historical, socio-political and Jewish cultural research. Delving into and responding to the histories of (mostly) women across varied times and cultures, entering their spheres of creativity, and sometimes spirituality, however remotely, has taken me on a powerful journey. I can reinterpret my subjects' artworks and eras using endless mixed media and far-flung imaginative ideas. Then with all these tools, I compose a dense, complex – with a surprising blend of materials – collage. In these examples, I am celebrating the energy of our Jewish ancestors, their creativity, and the power of light, with its many metaphorical interpretations; and in two pieces I specifically honor the Jewish artist, Sonia Terk Delaunay. The candle image, in particular was created for an artist's Beit Midrash, using light's meanings as a topic; later I superimposed lines from a prayer about taking action towards justice in the world. “Theo's Double Scroll,” which is from my brand new series on endangered Jewish languages (his is Yevanic, and he is reviving it in his own special way), comprises photography, digital drawing, painting, and collage. Just like Delaunay, I aim to seduce the viewer with color, pattern and materials, offering up a deeper thought-provoking subtext, as I also hope to reawaken viewers to the beauty of ancestral languagues.
About the artist: Leslie Nobler works in digital, mixed media, fiber and book arts. She holds a BFA from University of Michigan and MFA from CUNY - Hunter College. An emerita Art Professor, Nobler has received International Digital Art Awards, artist's grants from the Surface Design Association, Puffin Foundation, and others, along with residencies at rextile art centers; her artist's books/prints are in numerous unversity and museum collections. Nobler's exhibitions include New York Visual Arts Museum's Digital Salons, New Jersey State Museum, Noyes and Montclair Art Museums (NJ), Old Main Art Museum (AZ), Athenaeum Museum (PA), Kemper Museum of Art (MO), Oslo Jewish Museum, Afrigraphics of Pretoria, Eurographics in Barcelona, Nanjing Art Institute, and Symposia on Digital Art in Bangkok and London. Nobler's work has been featured in the New York Times, NJ Star-Ledger, Surface Design Journal, Leonardo, Textiles: The Art of Mankind, The Nomadic Image: Explorations at the intersections of art, science, & culture, (University of Melbourne) and the Review/Midwest. Her recent portrait project was featured in New Jersey Jewish News, Rewriting Herstory: Volume Two (Victory Hall Press) and WomensWork.art.