Showing posts with label oregon jewish museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oregon jewish museum. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

SOLD!.....to the HIGHEST BIDDER!

"Pentamorous"


Oregon Jewish Museum is one of my favorite non-profits in town.

Every year OJM hosts a beautiful fundraiser auction and this is what I made specifically for the event. Sunday, May 4th this event was held at the historic Benson Hotel.

It's hard to tell from the photo, but this wall mounted mixed media piece hosts  5 separate panels mounted at different depths to a highly polished piece of cobalt plastic which in turn is mounted to  hand-polished aluminum. The decorative elements are mounted to aventurine blue glass that sparkles like glitter in the light.

Congrats to the new owners Elaine and Jonathon! ... thank you for supporting an awesome museum!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Scenes from OJM- Blue Thread!

 Zoe Sirkin , her mom Erin Farar and author Ruth Tenzer Feldman
 Diane Fredgant's tallitot on display!
 Diane describes her process for designing tallitot.
Estee Rosenberg reads from the book.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Seder Plate for OJM


The Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland will be hosting another fund raising auction in May. This is the new seder plate I made for that event. The glass is remarkable and a new experiment for me. The base is a new reactive glass made by bullseye glass. It is a clear iridized reactive glass. That means that when it comes in contact with copper, gold or silver it will cause an interesting reaction. 

I used copper foil to make the letters and decorated the plate with turquoise frit and stringer. The reaction was neat....turned the glass a speckled red in places and cast a reddish shadow in others. Unfortunately the photo doesn't show the reaction as well as I'd like.

The back of the plate is textured offering the plate a depth color (even though the plate is transparent). Six condiment dishes come with the plate. It's called Reactivity and Wandering. We were a reactive people as we wandered the desert trying to learn how to be Jews. There were spiritual and physical highs and lows. This plate brings a reminder to the seder table of our struggles and our successes.

Please come out and support OJM Sunday May 3rd. 
Check them out at http://www.ojm.org/