Portfolio
Selected Writing
Letter from the Editor
JArts Magazine/Impact Report 2022
Email Copy
Faith, Fashion, and Fun: Jen Taylor Friedman's Tefillin Barbie
Bubbly article about an artist's invention of a campy, empowered Barbie doll with religious flair.
Goal: To increase engagement across all JArts social platforms and drive new users to the Kolture site by capitalizing on a pop culture moment.
Result: 10,000 likes and shares across all platforms, the most amount of engagement on all JArts platforms ever.
(Click the image to read on Kolture.org.)
“If I Were A Rich Man”: Four
Variations of the Iconic Hit
Short listicle posted on icon Zero Mostel's birthday, 2023.
Goal: To educate our audience and honor a culturally significant Jewish artist who has pop culture relevance in an article that can be boosted on all social platforms in a timely matter and in future calendar years.
(Click the image to read on Kolture.org.)
Published Poetry
Open Call Magazine | 3 poems | 2020
Cosmonauts Avenue | poem/image | 2018
seafoam mag | poem | 2017
tenderness yea | poem | 2017
Moneta | 3 poems | 2017
Potluck Magazine | poem | 2017
Issue 16/ Vagabond City (on right) | 2 poems | 2016
Election Aftermath/Yellow Chair Review | poem | 2016
Selected Projects
A Day in My Life (2022)
Role: Developed, managed, and edited unique content series curated by Galit Reismann of TLVStyle.
Project Description: “A Day in My Life” is a project conceptualized and curated by Galit Reismann, fashion and design entrepreneur and owner of TLVstyle. The project exposes a collective of emerging Israeli creators through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their everyday lives.
Each creator, from the fields of fashion, textile, and design, let us follow one day of work through writing, images, and videos, offering us an intimate, realistic look into the creatives’ studio life and creations, as well open a door to their personal lives.
It is a documentary series that presents the creators in their authentic mode, which allows us to learn about their humbleness in life and business. It teaches us about Jewish spirit and chutzpah, which is often ascribed to Israel’s high-tech entrepreneurs, but also represents the creative community in Israel.
Click on the images to go to Kolture.org.
A PORTAL TO GWOŹDZIEC (2023)
Role: Developed, managed, edited, and consulted on curation of a digital exhibition for the Handshouse Studio Gwoździec Synagogue Reconstruction project, now installed at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Project Description: 10 years ago, Handshouse Studio brought over 350 eager participants together to reconstruct the elaborate barrel vault ceiling and the bimah of the 17th-century wooden Gwoździec Synagogue to scale. The synagogue, with its striking colors, rug-like design, and its depictions of animals both familiar and mythical, was destroyed by the Nazis in World World II. Reconstructed with black-and-white archival documentation as a guide, the Gwoździec Synagogue project is a monumental act of resilience to the forces that sought to destroy it and erase the history of Polish Jews.
Years later, Handshouse Studio and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw are launching “A Portal to Gwoździec,” a new, interactive virtual tour including 3D renderings, to make even the smallest, most intimate details accessible to the general public globally.
On Kolture, we are presenting a week-long Handshouse takeover, exploring significant architectural elements of the project leading up to the launch of the Portal.
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Be the Change (2022-2023)
Role: Managed digital project, wrote full tombstone (art description) copy for each piece, led digital exhibition content layout, curated images of each piece, created video thumbnails (see: selected graphic design,) and managed/collaborated with freelance video editor as Producer for digital exhibition.
Project Description: Be the Change is an art and activism initiative that is inspired by the Jewish tenet of justice and drawing from the ritualistic Jewish Tzedakah box. Be the Change is about making space to talk about injustice – and to give us all action steps to be agents of change in our local and global communities. The tzedakah box (based on the root word tzedek, Hebrew for justice) is a small box in which Jews traditionally collect loose change on Shabbat and other occasions to be donated to the needy. Beyond just giving money, the goal of Be the Change is to help us all become artivists – activists through the art.
From Boston to Cincinnati to L.A., thousands of people have experienced the Jewishly-inspired art and activism movement in person and online.
Click on the images to go to Kolture.org.
Ghost Tour: Afterlives in Art
Role: Researched, scripted, and edited a virtual tour for Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's 2020 Sightlines Tours series.
Project Description: "The objects on this tour, from different time periods and using different mediums, have 'lived' like bodies, born as something outside the context of a museum. We will explore how the idea of afterlives can be manifested in five different objects, considering how we are surrounded by 'ghosts' of the past."
Selected Graphic Design
Desktop Organizers
Template Companion
Graphic illustrating how elements of the template for contributers will be formatted on the website after going through edits.
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Site Content Header Images and Thumbnails
Video Thumbnails
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Products for Sale
Stickers, shirts, etc. available to the general public on Redbubble.
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Speaking Engagements
Kolture Promotional Video
Appearence as interviewee in trailer ahead of Kolture.org launch in 2023.
Studio Israel | Gil Yefman
Facilitated audience Q&A portion of the Studio Israel conversation with trans-disciplinary conceptual artist Gil Yefman (begins 41:10).
Studio Israel was a partnership with JArts, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University and the Vilna Shul, with support from Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP).