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Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor (b. 1963, Arcadia, CA; lives and works in Sacramento, CA) creates large-scale sculptures made with found materials that represent animal-like, fantastic creatures. Born in Los Angeles she is now based in Sacramento, CA. She has exhibited extensively in California and throughout the US including John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin and CUE Art Foundation, NY. She was a recipient of the 2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Fellowship and a 2012 Artist-in-Residence Fellowship from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha. She is curre ntly teaching at UC Davis.
Presented in conjunction with Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, on view Sep 28, 2017–Jan 28, 2018 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
Uploaded Aug 28, 2017.
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid presents newly commissioned works of art by sixteen contemporary artists in response to a selection of tales from Jewish folklore. Acting as modern maggids—storytellers, transmitters of knowledge, secrets revealers—they explore the many facets of these stories’ characters, themes, and metaphors. Artists include: Michael Arcega, Julia Goodman, Dina Goldstein, Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth Hope, Vera Iliatova, David Kasprzak, Mads Lynnerup, Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Mike Rothfeld, Tracey Snelling, Chris Sollars, M. Louise Stanley, Inez Storer, and Young Suh and Katie Peterson.
Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Lead sponsorship is provided by the Koret Foundation. Major support is provided by Gaia Fund, Wendy Kesser, and Dorothy R. Saxe. Sponsorship is provided in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum thanks The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for its major support of The Museum’s exhibition program.