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Community Color Connections, 2019
Schechter Shabbaton

I engaged over 150 participants at the first annual Schechter Shabbaton to paint together as part of a collaborative art experience. Kids and adults celebrated their favorite parts of the Shabbaton by choosing colors that represented different elements they found inspiring. These included Tefillah (blue), Singing/Music (pink), Havdallah/Bonfire (orange), Sports/Games (purple), Hiking/Walking (Turquoise), Being in Nature (green), and Playing/Connecting with Friends (yellow). They painted their own patterns on long rolls of paper and then had to connect their painting to the people sitting both next to them and across from them to fill in the white space. Participants then created a continuous white line throughout the long artwork by passing a paintbrush person by person from either side of the table until they met in the middle to highlight our connection as a community. I then cut the long papers into strips and wove them back together to create two large artworks (one to welcome students at each campus) that represent the collective energy of this shared experience.