SHOW YOUR COLORS!

Laurie Fendel, Sabina Wohfeiler and Barbara Berger are our featured artists today.

Barbara uses her camera to transform the "every day" experience into something unique. She helps the viewer see what she sees. Remarkable!

Sabina is well known for her watercolors but has recently explored the possibilities of pastels. Nature inspires her art and the results are stunning. Customers raved to us about her work and about meeting her!

Laurie has redefined fabric sculpture. Mystical, spiritual, and colorful....her designs inspire!

Pictured here is a commissioned piece that tooks months of designing, cutting and sewing.

Barbara Berger- illuminating photography!

With autumn , the light changes. We spend more hours in the dark. The weather shifts and we add layers to our clothing.

Barbara's photography illuminates and warms us. Both a writer and a photographer, Barbara has a way of showing the viewer a story within the every day experience of life.

This will be Barbara's third sale with ORA. Come visit her booth and check out her photos. Buy one or two, while you are at it!...And ask her about her writing! She spins a mean yarn!

October 30th 10:30am-4:30 pm

MJCC Ballroom

6651 SW Capitol Hwy

What's In A Name?

It was my job to print up labels for our new "Gateways" exhibit at Neveh Shalom. Each artist sent me the titles of the works they were submitting, as well as the medium, and perhaps a brief explanation of the connection between the work and the Gateways theme. It was a most interesting process, because I was not seeing the actual works. My imagination was going a little crazy, trying to imagine what these pieces might look like.

Consider this example. Leslie Elder had a piece called "Smoothing Out The Wrinkles." I knew it was a watercolor painting, but had no idea what it looked like. Her info talked about the "Eyshet Chayil" blessing, and how a husband's reputation is partly based on the good deeds of his wife. I couldn't imagine what it might look like!

So it was with great curiosity that I showed up on Monday for the set-up of this exhibit. I looked for Sharon Segal's "Separate But Equal???" and Laura Joy's "Doorways of Choice", Ellen Shefi's "Ice Puddle" and Shemaya Blauer's "Releasing What Is Known." And I looked for Leslie's 3 pieces.

In each case, I was blown away! This is such a powerful gathering of theme-based works! I think I'm not going to tell you what Leslie's painting looks like, because you have to see it for yourself. When you see the three paintings together, and read her thoughts on them, you may experience the exquisite lump-in-the-throat that I did.

You will get goose bumps when you see Laura Joy's fabric sculpture, and you will feel the most beautiful serenity looking at Eddy Shuldman's "Wanderings" Seder Plate juxtaposed with Diane Fredgant's painted silk wall hanging "L'Dor vaDor." You will recognize the family history behind Barbara Berger's two gateway photos. And much more.

The exhibit is on display through the end of May. Come to services, or any activity, or just drop by during the day and ring the buzzer to be let in. You'll be glad you did!

"Gateways"
a theme-based exhibit of artwork by ORA artists
at Congregation Neveh Shalom
2900 SW Peaceful Lane
Portland, OR 97239
503.246.8831

BARBARA BERGER: PHOTOGRAPHY

Anybody can push a shutter button and snap off a shot.....but only a talented photographer knows how to see the world and capture it in single images.

Barbara returns as a guest artist. Stop by her booth and look at her work You'll get a glimpse of how she sees the world. Talk to her and you'll learn even more.

You know where we'll be....right?

MJCC

6651 SW Capitol Hwy

October 24th 10am-4pm

we'll be in the ballroom...with all the pretty "stuff!"