Wednesday, August 5

Time: 8:00pm - 9:15pm

Cost: $10-54 (sliding scale)

Location: Lehrhaus - 425 Washington Street Somerville, MA 02143

“There is nothing so whole as a broken heart” - Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

In this workshop, using the Jewish Studio Process, we'll explore what it means to welcome and wrestle with the broken parts — inside and outside of us all. Through Jewish text, creative exploration, and reflective making, we'll ask: what do we do when something breaks? When we ourselves feel broken? What becomes possible when we stop hiding the shards and learn to hold them as holy?

Facilitated By:
Hannah Richman Kearney (she/her) is a Jewish educator, Director of the Well at Temple Beth Elohim, and a painter. She came to the Jewish Studio Process through her two deepest passions — Judaism and art. Through her acrylic paintings, Hannah explores the way light meets land, captured in the flash of paint. Her fascination with landscape is rooted in part in her upbringing in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, a formerly industrial town in the foothills of Appalachia. She received her B.A. in painting from Brandeis University in 2010 and has since worked as an educator and artist in the Jewish world, living in Framingham, Massachusetts.