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I’m planning a Chinese New Year/Purim celebration, and got it in my head that I wanted the invitations to look like the red envelopes that are given out with “gelt” in them. My friend Aron did the Chinese calligraphy and scribe Julie Seltzer did the Hebrew. They both say “gong shi fah tzai”, a wish [...]

After finally obtaining a screenprinting-friendly studio, I was eager to spread the wealth and teach a few artsy friends this complex and at first bewildering process that gets easier with experience and when done in large quantities. After a year and half of hemming and hawing, it finally happened with a great turnout and a [...]

Perhaps my creative focus is drifting…

I love instructional diagrams, even of the most simple tasks. The scribe that we have working at the CJM led this challah-making workshop and I captured it on film.  She had the dough pre-made so the disgram complicates what was really a sweet and simple process, but it was so fun to make.

So for a bit of a change, a recent project has to do with the time before the organs get involved. In an effort to create more interesting content for the institutional blog I manage for a Jewish institution, I proposed to a few friends that we create a series of monthly dinner parties based [...]

This is a short editorial piece that I was super excited to be asked to write for the publication Museum ID. I reached new levels of procrastination preparing this at 3 AM on deadline, but I think it came out in a coherently rambly style that feels like my voice. It’s the first written piece [...]

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This is a postcard I created for the teen program, “Monsters, Munchies, and a Movie” at the CJM. We don’t really have a teen aesthetic, so I had to dip into the adolescence I remember all too often, and try to create something that would appeal to teenagers in a non-pandering way. Being as juvenile [...]

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Some mocks for the identity of an exhibition of work on the subject of domestic violence.

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Look closely, and you can see the scapula shirt in action on shirt wear-er Dan. This icon will be in the game “Taxiball”, available on an iphone near you.