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Jewish Folktales Retold Artist Portrait: Julia Goodman

Julia Goodman (b. 1979, Atlanta, GA; lives and works in Berkeley, CA) has been creating handmade paper sculptures for more than ten years, using various techniques of papermaking with plant-based materials such as beets and natural fabrics. In her work, she explores human connections, life cycles, and symmetry between the celestial and the terrestrial. Her work has been exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art; DePaul Art Museum; and Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL. Goodman received her BA from Tufts University, Medfords, and both her MA and MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

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 18, 2017.

about the exhibition

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.

supporters

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.