Sukkah Studio

Monday–Sunday, Oct 14–20, 2019 | 11am–3pm

ADMISSION: Free

Free Open Studio

Inspired by the holiday of Sukkot, a Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest, The CJM has built its own sukkah (meaning “booth” or “hut”) for gathering and community building. The Museum invited six local artists to inhabit our Sukkah Studio as an open studio, providing an inviting space for the artists to share their practice with visitors and work with interested folks to make something together.

Each artist will inhabit the Sukkah Studio for one day. Drop by the sukkah in the Koret Taube Grand Lobby for one open studio or attend all of them!

about the ARTISTs

Mari Andrews is a sculptor and installation artist. Her sculptures and installations are continuations of her drawing practice and employs such varied materials as wire, lead, seeds, stones, mica, soil, salt, pods, and thorns. Choosing among this diverse collection, she creates new associations and juxtapositions that awaken the imagination. Drawing upon her fascination with nature, science, and the environment, she has incorporated both nature’s systems and nature’s randomness into her work.

Andrew’s work can be found in the collections of the de Young Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, the de Saisset Museum, and the Eli Broad Foundation, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad. Learn more at mariandrews.com

Artist Miriam Dym is a self-taught systems thinker with a practice rooted in performance and drawing. Her systems address simple-sounding, yet complex questions. She uses strategies from design, engineering, and business. Dym's years’ long systems experiments include public and private "materials processing" performance, and performance by-products.

Dym’s work has been exhibited widely, including at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, SFMOMA, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Learn more atmiriamdym.com

C.K. Itamura is an autodidactic interdisciplinary artist, designer, and producer. Her work blurs the lines between mediums as she combines tangible materials, sensory prompts, book arts, photography, language, time, and space to create visual work, participatory projects, and conceptual installations. Learn more at peachfarmstudio.net.

Jon Levy-Warren makes paintings representing moods through facial expressions and postures. He provides peeks into people's little worlds with his expressive hand drawn lines and vibrant emotive colors. His work is gestural and conveys spontaneity. Relationships between people, the shrug of a shoulder, or a tilt of the head conveys an inner universe in Levy-Warren’s calculated frenzy. Learn more at jonlevywarren.com.

Marty McCutcheon is, among other things, the founder of Round Table Collaboration, an innovative, inclusive method wherein sets of artworks are created by autonomous individuals participating in a sequential, interdependent process. Learn more at roundtablecollaboration.com/about.

Amy Oates’ art practice explores the “crowd” as a metaphor for the city, representative of ephemeral moments between individuals, layered one upon the next. She creates cut paper installations to convey the movement and energy in urban spaces, varying between distinguishable figures and abstractions made of congested layers of figures. Learn more at www.amyoates.com.

ACCESSIBILITY

The CJM strives for a welcoming environment for all of our visitors. In addition to ample space for wheelchairs and a friendly environment for service animals, sign language interpretation (ASL) can be scheduled for all programs with at least two weeks notice.

FM assistive listening devices (ALDs) for sound enhancement are available for all talks and tours. Please note that we would like to maintain this as a scent-free environment, and encourage visitors to refrain from using scented products out of respect for visitors with allergies or chemical sensitivities. For additional accommodation requests, please contact The CJM’s Access and Community Engagement Manager at access@thecjm.org or 415-655-7856.

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supporters

Sukkah Studio is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Jim Joseph Foundation and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.

The wood for this sukkah was donated in part by SapphirePine.

SapphirePine transforms some of the 100 million California trees killed by drought and tiny mountain beetles into beautiful furniture and durable lumber. The beetles that kill the trees also bring a blue-stain fungus that give the wood its stunning blue, green, and orange highlights. Sapphire Pine gives this wood a new life. For more information, please visit www.sapphirepine.com.