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Helene Fischman
Helene Fischman is a photographer, painter, and
educator who has been working in the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Community for 18 years. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in many private collections including the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland. Helene is based out of Oakland, California.
Focusing on the dynamic interaction of humans with their environment, Helene has done a series of site-specific artist residencies where she has captured a sense of human history and architectural history as set against its organic, time-less, natural surroundings.
Helene’s formal art training began at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied drawing and painting in her youth. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University School of Visual Arts, and her master’s degree from California State University, Hayward.
Jewish Folk Art
Open Studio
- Sunday 3:00PM–4:15PM Gold Camp, Streak
Need a way to express yourself after taking in so much learning? Feel free to drop in during this open studio hour and create.
Jewish Folk Art - Session 1
Theory and Practice
- Friday 5:00PM–6:15PM Foxfire
Art is and has always been the means by which humanity has expressed its deepest feelings, values and highest ideals. In this introductory session, we will begin to explore Jewish Folk Art through such artists as Shalom of Safed, Marc Chagall, and Harry Lieberman. Participants will begin a collage & painting, beginning the fascinating journey exploring visual language as a means of storytelling.
Through the Lens
Artist-Residencies at Terezinstadt and Auschwitz
- Saturday 10:45PM–12:00AM Foxfire
Join artist/photography Helene Fischman on a journey through two unprecedented artist-in-residencies: Focusing on the dynamic interaction of humans with their environment, Helene Fischman has done a series of site-specific artist residencies where she has captured a sense of human history and architectural history as set against its organic, time-less, natural surroundings.
Funded by the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grant and the Roszi and Jeno Zisovich Award, she innovated two artist residencies in former Eastern European Nazi territory to explore a sense of Jewish identity within the confines of a traumatic historical site. The exhibit of artwork from these two residencies has been traveling within the San Francisco Bay Area since 2006.
Jewish Folk Art - Session 2
Theory and Practice 2
- Sunday 1:30PM–2:45PM Gold Camp, Streak
What has inspired Jewish artists throughout time? What differed in the motivation of survivalist Jewish art of the Terezin Ghetto from European Jewish art created during a golden age of growth centuries earlier? In this workshop we will discuss how artwork historically can decode the priorities of a cultural tradition and we will also explore our own cultural priorities as we paint, less as fine art and more as ritual object.
Jewish Folk Art
Drop In Studio Hour
- Sunday 3:00PM–4:15PM Gold Camp, Streak
Need a way to express yourself after taking in so much learning? Feel free to drop in during this open studio hour and create.
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