Friday, Dec 1, 2017 • 12:30–1pm
ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission
"After an evil sorcerer murders a child, a Rabbi creates a Golem out of clay to protect the community." O’Connor will discuss her large-scale sculptures inspired by the tale of the Golem.
Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor works “with commonly available materials such as bed sheets, bedding and other discarded domestic fabrics; Elisabeth creates sculptural works that address the unique fascination we experience with the allure of the grotesque.”
Want to read the stories that inspired these works of art? Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition in Leaves From the Garden of Eden, the reference book for The CJM exhibition, Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid.
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Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor. Installation view of (This is Not a) Love Song at Verge Center for the Arts, 2016. Mixed media variable dimensions, each figure app. 12 ft. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by John Wilson White.