Join Israeli artist Hadassa Goldvicht and renowned New Yorker cartoonist and author Liana Finck, as they discuss art and storytelling as a form of healing and Hadassa’s powerful new art installation at the JCCMW, Healing Measures. Inspired by personal interviews and workshops done with the JCCMW community, this site-specific work is a reflection on the ongoing violence in Israel, and it transforms our space into one of healing, unity, and reflection.
Light refreshments will be served.
Admission: $18
About the Installation
Healing Measures is a community-centered artwork by Goldvicht that explores the profound collective knowledge of human healing. In this site-specific installation at the JCC, Goldvicht gathered personal stories from members of diverse faiths and cultural backgrounds. These narratives reflect the many stages of life—from the sorrow of loss and the complexities of parenthood to the quiet struggles embedded in daily existence. Through these voices, the work weaves a poetic investigation into human mechanisms of pain and healing as well as the different ways one attempts to repair the irreparable.
The installation, on the main ramp inside the building, functions as an intimate sanctuary, inviting visitors into a communal space where private, often unspoken stories are shared in this text-based work, creating a communal space to contemplate vulnerability and encourage reflection on the ways we tend to our inner wounds, both individually and as a community.
About the Artist
Hadassa Goldvicht is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and lecturer. Goldvicht creates large-scale artworks together with members of communities and institutions exploring themes of language, memory, pain, and healing. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2004) and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York (2007). Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice; the Jewish Museum, New York; the Tel Aviv Museum; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Beijing Biennial, the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, and the Judisches Museum in Berlin.
About the Presenter
Liana Finck is a cartoonist, illustrator, author of Let there Be Light and A Bintel Brief, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Mandel Fellowship for Cultural Leadership. She has had artist residencies with MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay. Three recent publications by Liana Finck will be sold onsite: How to Baby: A No-Advice-Given Guide to Motherhood, with Drawings; You Broke It!; and, Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation.
