Below you will find the artists who participated in the Re-Art program, the six core artists and six alumni from the prior year program.This year's cohort each created six images, one original and five Re-Art. The alumni each produced two images, one original and one Re-Art. You will find the work of each in a slideshow.
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Minneapolis Artists |
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Linda Passon-McNally
I am a freelance photographer who has been involved with expressing and sharing passions through photographic explorations since the 1960’s. Photography has provided me with a way of extending memories from my life’s experiences, and a camera has been my constant companion.
I grew up in Duluth MN, graduated from the University of MN in Minneapolis, was employed in a long and satisfying career as a caseworker for Hennepin County Child Support Services, and even though I am technically retired, I enjoy working as a cashier at a local grocery store where I see the whole world go by. I also have been involved as a volunteer with many organizations - in the local Jewish community and beyond - and enjoy the interactions with people helping others. My photographic interests vary to depict what I love: traveling and observing people in their environments, discovering patterns in landscapes and in nature, and capturing special moments on the “street.” I have participated in many classes, workshops, solo and group exhibitions which all fuel my creative interests. |
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David Sherman
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David Sherman is a portrait, sports and editorial photographer with over 25 years of experience. As the NBA Team Photographer for professional basketball teams, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx, Sherman has produced striking imagery that has been published internationally. In addition, David's adventurous spirit has taken him on professional assignments world-wide to China, Japan, England, France and Turkey.
A professional photographer since 1992, he serves as House Photographer for Target Center. David is highly regarded by professional practices, businesses and publications for his professionalism, his artist's eye and ability to masterfully draw out the true emotion and energy behind his subjects. In 2010, David established Transfer of Memory, a touring exhibition of portraits and accompanying stories of Minnesota’s Holocaust Survivors. |
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Cathy Tobias
I love to travel and experience nature, cultures, and new wonders. I approach my life’s journey as if on a photo safari. With camera in hand, photo expeditions allow me to shift into an enhanced observational space; intentionally slowing down, heightening my senses, and absorbing the colors, layers, textures, stories, emotions, and wonders surrounding me.
I aim to capture new perspectives as they emerge, even in familiar places, inspiring a deeper love for life, intensifying a thirst for adventure, sparking imagination, provoking empathy, and deepening gratitude. In short, I hope to inspire others to slow down and take time to “enjoy the view” – with all its depth, breath, beauty and diversity. Mostly, I worked in the field of physical rehabilitation as an occupational therapist and a clinical director. My specialty area was neurophysiological disorders like stroke, multiple sclerosis, dementia and Alzheimer’s. Also, I have an aging life care company, helping families with aging relatives, and I am a certified life coach. I was interested in photography much earlier; however, I only dove seriously into digital photography about 10 years ago. Last year, I completed a “General Studies in Photography” certificate from the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida. I have had the opportunity to show my work with exhibits on Vietnam, Cuba, and a current series called, “Openings”. I have enjoyed entering my work into some photography shows too, and won some awards along the way. I am intrinsically driven to continually challenge myself, learn, and expand my skills. |
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Rehovot Artists
Pazit Assouline
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Photographer specializing in culinary & portrait photography
Food Photography - Professional food and culinary productions. Photographer for chefs, pastry chefs and businesses in the food sector. Visual concepts for restaurants, catalogues, Internet websites & social media. Food photographer, chef and pastry chef with over a decade of experience in culinary production, styling and photography. I come from the culinary world. I had my own catering company, FoodAndMore, in which I produced events, cooked, baked, photographed food and managed a team of employees. I have vast culinary knowledge and added value for food photography, including a good understanding of raw materials, temperatures, serving and styling. Portraits - Promotional photography and business portraits as well as personal promotional photography for social media and dating apps. Promotional photography is a company’s business card, reflecting the people behind the business. In the dating world your photographs should reflect who you are at your very best. About me - I was born in Tel Aviv (Israel), grew up in Holon and have been living in Rehovot for the past 15 years. I am married, mother of three gorgeous children. I have a BA in Social Sciences from the Open University of Israel. I went to pastry chef school at Estella Master Class and studied photography at the Focus Center for Photography Studies & Galitz Photography School. I also took many online courses and have independent study abilities. I am fast-paced at work as well as in life; I do Pilates, yoga, acrobatics, weight lifting and TRX. Sports are an inseparable part of my life. Commercially I mainly photograph food & people. I like to take photographs of landscape and nature for the soul. |
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Anatt Friedman
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Anatt Friedman is a mixed media artist and a digital art therapist who works with individuals and groups with special needs in all ages. Her art is centered around ways traditional and technological art tools can improve our expression and our connections with ourselves and with others. Anatt enjoys playing with art tools and combining plastic art materials with digital tools. In her work, she uses digitals tools such as an iPad, camera, projector and eye gaze technology which enables participants to control the computer and create art only with their eyes.
Anatt believes that many digital tools can become art tools and a channel for communication and connection. Anatt lives in Rehovot, and previously lived for a few years in the USA and in Australia. She completed her master’s degree in Art therapy in 2012 from Western Sydney University. Anatt also has a certificate in Expressive Art Therapy from Israel. Anatt gives lectures and workshops nationally and internationally, and recently presented a lecture in Australia in July 2018 on the topic “Art with the eyes”. Anatt began to use digital art when she was in the army and in her spare time, she studied graphic design. From then, she began adding digital media to her art works. Art is a main part of her life. One of Anatt’s dreams is to be part of an open art studio team where digital art tools are available in the same space as plastic art tools. She envisages a studio that will be open to all the community, and accessible for participants with all abilities and disabilities. Sometimes, digital art tools are the only accessible art tools for participants with physical limitations. Anatt believes that everyone should have the opportunity to express themselves creatively. |
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Roni Shechber
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Video & Digital artist
I was born and lived in Israel all my life, but always was attracted to the big world, at an early age, I began to listen to foreign music and watch foreign films, I wanted to know how people lived in the rest of the world. Only when I got older I started seeing video as a form of art, and not just as a way to tell a story. I won't forget the first time I came across a Video Art work, It was at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, I entered a large dark room, people were sitting on the floor looking at a big screen, on the screen was shown a film that had no narrative and no dialogue ,there were children on trees playing with mirrors and there were unique sounds, it was like magic. I could not understand anything from what I saw, and still I was so moved by that work. I think this was the moment that eventually led me to choose to go and study art . And so I got my bachelor's degree from The Bezalel Academy Of Arts in Jerusalem, The department of screen based arts, in 2017. In Bezalel I was exposed to other art fields in the territory of digital art, such as image design and photography. Video is a medium that contains a reference to time, movement, sound and editing. These can create layered and challenging works. In my work I choose to deal with issues related to religion and gender. Video as an artistic medium allows me to deal with these issues in a unique way, sometimes paradoxical, loving and critical at the same time. The medium of video allows me to connect with people and convey to them the world through my eyes, a bit as the films of my childhood did for me. |
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Alumni Artists - Minneapolis
Carolyn Light Bell
Carolyn Light Bell shares her reflections on life’s gifts through writing and photography. Behind the lens of her camera, Light Bell explores the mystery and power of beauty, striving to capture its essence through the power of light, color, texture, and composition. Sight is a precious gift. Through our eyes, we select and interpret personal meaning from our surroundings in order to bring the visual experience deep inside our soul. That’s what the art of photography is about. Light Bell’s photographs have appeared regionally and her short stories, essays and poetry have been published nationally.
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Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin
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Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin studied philosophy, mathematics, and music at Mount Holyoke College and earned her master’s from Bryn Mawr. In 2001, she participated in an artists’ exchange in Israel. She has had nine solo photography exhibitions in Israel, and one-person shows at venues such as Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in Massachusetts; A.I.R. Gallery and Weill Art Gallery in NYC and the Quarter Gallery, Regis Center, University of Minnesota. She is represented by A.I.R. Gallery in New York and Wendy Frieze Gallerist in Minneapolis. Her photographs are part of private and corporate collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Hennepin History Museum, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 3M, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Woodstock Center for Photography, Medtronic Corporation, University of St. Thomas, Jerusalem Theater (Israel), Poriya Hospital (Israel), Massachusetts General Hospital, Adath Jeshurun Congregation (MN), Park Nicollet Women’s Center (MN), and Fidelity Investments.
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Susan Weinberg
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For the past ten years, Susan Weinberg has focused her artwork on family and cultural history, exploring these themes through painting and narrative. With a deep interest in genealogy, Susan began her exploration with a series of artwork on her own family history. She expanded her focus to the countries from which family came, exploring the Holocaust and pre-war Jewish communities through artwork. In recent years, she developed an oral history project with elders, creating artwork, text and video that captured their stories, telling the story of the broader Jewish community and the three groups of Jewish immigrants who came to the US in the twentieth century. In 2017, she published We Spoke Jewish: A Legacy in Stories, a book of artwork and oral history that grew out of this project. Currently she is developing work around the theme of memory. Susan has done solo exhibitions locally and nationally as well as in Poland and the UK. (webmaster for p2gx.com)
Alumni Artists - Rehovot |
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Irene Dym
Irene Dym was born in Brussels, Belgium and educated in New York City. She immigrated to Israel with her family, settling in Rehovot where she attended art classes with a number of teachers, and studied printing techniques.. She continued formal studies at Bat Yam Institute of Art. In 1981 she became a member of the Tel Aviv Artist’s House. Since her first one-woman show in 1983, Irene has participated in many group shows in Israel and exhibitions in New York and Germany. Irene taught art printing techniques and courses in creativity at the Adult Education center of Rehovot from 1986-2005 and is one of the founding members of The Visual Arts Association where she serves on the management committee and as treasurer. Irene currently works with collage, adding acrylic and markers, often exploring the contrast between humanity’s civilized and primitive sides.
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Rivka Krispin Usiel
Rivka Uziel was born in Bulgaria. She is married and the mother of four. Rivka originally trained for her career teaching high school, later getting additional degrees from the University of Tel-Aviv studying Hebrew Literature/Bible as well as from the Tel Aviv School of Art. Rivka has been engaged in artistic activities for the past twenty-five years and is a member of the Ugandan Artist Association. She has presented her works in a number of exhibitions. She lectured at the Department of Fine Arts at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and curates an annual art exhibition of the Makarere University School of Fine Arts. Rivka is a member of the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association, the Israeli Association of Plastic Arts, and the Rehovot Artists Association. Her works decorate public institutions such as the Weismann Institute of Science, and the city halls of Ramla and Rishon Letzion (Israel) and Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
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Joelle Zajfman
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Joelle Zajfman grew up in France, arriving in Israel in her twenties to study physics. After completing her master's degree in physics and working in research, she turned to art. Her work in sculpture and jewelry design, is influenced by her scientific experience as well as her fascination with the complexity of the forms and structure of the material, from which she finds an infinite repertoire of surprising patterns. Her work in sculpture begins with pencil sketches or clay. Her clay figures are later cast in bronze, often female figures that express the intensity, power and delicacy of the female body. Her jewelry also makes use of sculptural forms. Physical contact with the material as she shapes it with her own hands is an important part of her process as is exploring hidden sides of her own personality.
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