(AJNews) – The whimsical art that appears on the covers of this month’s Calgary and Edmonton editions of Alberta Jewish News is by Shelley Werner, a designer and Judaica Illustrator. She is one of the founding members of Art and Scroll Studio and is the host of their live Zoom series featuring the makers and creators of Judaica art.
An award- winning speaker, she is passionate about integrating Tikun Olam in all things. Having recently moved from Winnipeg to Calgary, she uses bold colours, watercolour and markers to celebrate her Jewish heritage. Her inspiration is found in the Alberta landscape, which has brought her a new form of meditation on majesty.
The next episode of Art and Scroll Studio will be on Wednesday October 30, 2024 at 7:00 pm Mountain time, featuring Israeli artist Judith Margolis. Israel-based American artist, Judith Margolis, draws on the spiritual when confronting the political. Her paintings, drawings, artist’s books, multimedia collages and essays aim to celebrate, as well as question, to berate and poke a finger at, how utterly unpredictable and unintelligible, LIFE is.
Her sense of identity and the essence of her art, spring from a life-long feminist consciousness, a radical educational philosophy of deschooling society, commitment to counter-culture social activism, and an extreme engagement with and ambivalence about religious tradition, especially, but not exclusively Judaism. Mostly, she loves to look at, and is sometimes healed by, how things appear.
Advance tickets at artandscrollstudio@gmail.com
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