Timbrel Artist-in-Residence
Each year, the National Havurah Committee invites artists to teach and share their talents at the Summer Institute. Our community has enjoyed the contributions of artists of a great variety of disciplines, forms and styles.
The Timbrel Fund generously sponsors these artists. The first years of the program were generously funded by the Rita Poretsky Foundation.
Past Artists in Residence have included:
2021: Ava Sayaka Rosen – Storytelling through Bookbinding
Galeet Dardashti – Sephardi/Mizrahi Poetic Songs
2020: Marcela Sulak – Eating the Bible, Writing the Table: Culinary Arts and Poetry
Rena Branson – Chassidish and Original Nigunim
2019: Tikva Hecht – DAF: Nonlinear and Collaborative Storytelling
Eli Kaplan-Wildmann – Ritual Object/Unbound Book Design
2018: Sara Felder – Solo Performance
Sabrina Sojourner – Creating Midrash
2017: Sara Zell Young – Collaborative Art and Writing of Comfort
Bill Aron – Photography
2016: Hillel Smith – Jewish Street Art
Yavni Bar-Yam – Shadow Puppetry
2014: Zoë Cohen – Towards a New Jewish Art
Eli Kaplan-Wildmann – Prophetic Street Theater
2013: Susan Leviton – Cranky Theater and Yiddish Song
Jennifer Judelsohn – Mandala/Shiviti Spiritual Drawing
2012: Michal Richardson – Israeli Folk Dancing
Jane Trigere – Art of the Wimpel
2011: Joey Weisenberg – Communal Nigunim
Jordan Herskowitz – Theatrical Storytelling
2010: Samuel Asher – Art of Sephardic Music
Natalie Lyalin and Joshua Bolton – Poetry
2009: Aviva Chernick – Music
2008: S. Bear Bergman – Storytelling, Diaspora, and Survival
Heather Stolz – Quilting
2005: Ramon Tasat – Music
2004: Neta Pulvermacher – Jewish Body Language
Brian Katz – Yidrhythmics: Whole Body Musicianship
2003: Joel Lewis – Poetry
Tracey Erin Smith – Theater and Improvisation
2002: Lloyd Wolf – Photography of Meaning
2001: Eric Bass – Puppet and Mask Performance
Ann Rachel – Music for the Whole Family
2000: Alicia Ostriker – Playing with White Fire: Writing Midrash
Judy Sirota Rosenthal – Communal, Multi-Media Creativity
1998: Judi Tal – Israeli Song
Doug Lipman – Storytelling
1996: Sarah Jacobs – Text and Image: High Holiday Challah Covers
JoAnne Tucker – Exploration in Movement
1995: Peter Pitzele – Bibiodrama/Midrash
1994: Hanna Tiferet Siegel – Music
Gerry Fierst – Storytelling
1993: Liz Lerman – Improvisational Dance
Linda Hirschhorn – Contemporary Jewish Vocal Music
1992: Arthur Strimling – Theater
If you have any information about past Artists in Residence who are missing from this list, please let us know. If you have information about future Artists in Residence missing from this list, please encourage them to apply! Thank you very much to Phyllis Holman Weisbard for most of the information here!