The Jewish Studio Process: Chanukah Edition

During Chanukah, the festival of lights, we approach the longest dark nights of the year. In this workshop, we’ll explore darkness and light, and what this season of deep winter has to offer us, through playful exploration of art materials alongside Jewish text and wisdom. No prior art experience or Jewish text background needed. Jewish Studio Project builds creative capacity across the Jewish community. We equip individuals and organizations with the tools to navigate change and uncertainty and reimagine Jewish life in a rapidly shifting world. Through bold thought leadership, accessible digital content, leader development intensives, and regional studios, JSP is shaping a future in which every person engages their inherent creativity as a source of well-being, resilience, and spiritual vitality. . . . 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.