Endangered: Angonoka Ploughshare Tortoise

Wood, beads, cabochons, handmade felt, paint
5"x16"x18"
This Madagascan tortoise is at extremely high risk of extinction due to poaching for food, medicine, and illegal trade, predators, habitat loss, and logging. Only around 200 remain in the wild. It is the most threatened tortoise on earth. A single adult can sell for $50,000.

Foundation Gate I

letterpress print from wood and metal type
15" x 15" framed
These prints turn type into image, inspired by the abstract beauty of the Hebrew letter. I recently acquired a piece of letterpress equipment originally used to print text on an angle and have been using it in a nontraditional, experimental way. Similar to the action of the children's toy Spirograph, this tool, the angle chase, creates a hypnotically circular letterpress-printed image. The forms (arrangements of type to be printed) are created from metal and wood types, along with other decorative typographic printing material. In each print, the circular printing element is rotated 24 times for one color (48 times for two), so a single sheet of paper goes through the press dozens of times for one print. I recently acquired a piece of letterpress equipment originally used to print text on an angle and have been using it in a nontraditional, experimental way. Similar to the action of the children's toy Spirograph, this tool, the angle chase, creates a hypnotically circular letterpress-printed image. The forms (arrangements of type to be printed) are created from metal and wood types, along with other decorative typographic printing material. In each print, the circular printing element is rotated 24 times for one color (48 times for two), so a single sheet of paper goes through the press dozens of times for one print.

Foundation Gate IV

letterpress print from wood and metal type
15" x 15" framed
These prints turn type into image, inspired by the abstract beauty of the Hebrew letter. I recently acquired a piece of letterpress equipment originally used to print text on an angle and have been using it in a nontraditional, experimental way. Similar to the action of the children's toy Spirograph, this tool, the angle chase, creates a hypnotically circular letterpress-printed image. The forms (arrangements of type to be printed) are created from metal and wood types, along with other decorative typographic printing material. In each print, the circular printing element is rotated 24 times for one color (48 times for two), so a single sheet of paper goes through the press dozens of times for one print. I recently acquired a piece of letterpress equipment originally used to print text on an angle and have been using it in a nontraditional, experimental way. Similar to the action of the children's toy Spirograph, this tool, the angle chase, creates a hypnotically circular letterpress-printed image. The forms (arrangements of type to be printed) are created from metal and wood types, along with other decorative typographic printing material. In each print, the circular printing element is rotated 24 times for one color (48 times for two), so a single sheet of paper goes through the press dozens of times for one print.

Foundation Gate V

letterpress print from wood and metal type
15" x 15" framed
These prints turn type into image, inspired by the abstract beauty of the Hebrew letter. I recently acquired a piece of letterpress equipment originally used to print text on an angle and have been using it in a nontraditional, experimental way. Similar to the action of the children's toy Spirograph, this tool, the angle chase, creates a hypnotically circular letterpress-printed image. The forms (arrangements of type to be printed) are created from metal and wood types, along with other decorative typographic printing material. In each print, the circular printing element is rotated 24 times for one color (48 times for two), so a single sheet of paper goes through the press dozens of times for one print. I recently acquired a piece of letterpress equipment originally used to print text on an angle and have been using it in a nontraditional, experimental way. Similar to the action of the children's toy Spirograph, this tool, the angle chase, creates a hypnotically circular letterpress-printed image. The forms (arrangements of type to be printed) are created from metal and wood types, along with other decorative typographic printing material. In each print, the circular printing element is rotated 24 times for one color (48 times for two), so a single sheet of paper goes through the press dozens of times for one print.

Impulse/Enveloped Diptych

Woven
15 5/8 x 13 1/4 "

I Am Also A Person

Papercut
15 x 17"
Symmetrical eagle silhouettes grasp snakes, making allusion to the Mexican flag. Horizontally centered, the transliteration of the Yiddish is "Ich bin aoykh a mensch." The piece refers to the feminist proposition that "women are people." The double-meaning of mensch as a person and a 'good' person references the defamation campaign conducted against the artist wherein her daughter was taken from her by a group conducting a modern-day witch hunt.

Mexicantown House Reno

Gouache/Mixed Media
14 x 18"
When the child's father locked me out of my home I had to sleep in a park before walking to my former neighbor's home. She took me in for what turned out to be more than 9 months. This view from her home where she helped me survive; a dove in the foreground.

Am Yisrael Chai

Mixed media, glass mosaic, wood
8x8”
This mixed-media mosaic centers a Star of David and protective eye, surrounded by richly colored glass and metallic fragments. The broken, irregular pieces come together to form something whole, luminous, and strong — a reflection of the Jewish spirit. The work speaks to resilience, protection, identity, and survival: even when we are fractured, we do not lose our light. We are broken, yet shine beautifully. The Hebrew words “Am Yisrael Chai” — “The People of Israel Live” affirm endurance, hope, and the ongoing strength of a people who continue to rebuild, remember, and shine.

Blessings Reclaimed

Upcycled fused glas, hand-painted
14.5x15”
This wall piece is created from five upcycled wine bottles, melted and fused together, then hand-painted with a detailed hamsa design. The hamsa, a symbol of protection, blessing, and strength, becomes the focal point of the composition. Intricate patterns, metallic details, and layered line work transform discarded glass into something decorative, symbolic, and renewed.

Etz Chayyim - Tree of Life

sculpture
16x16x16
Composed of carved boomerangs and found objects. It references the Tree of Life, a metaphor for the Torah .

Dream Field

Oil paint on canvas
15x18
Dream Field is one of my pointillist painting, it is painted in a meditative state.

Shalom Aleikham and Two

Acrylic on canvas
3-15" x 30"
Shalom Aleikham is the song with which we welcome Shabbat to our Friday night dinner. There are four verses to the song. We welcome the Angels and ask for their blessings and wish peace on their departure. The opening line of each verse is along the candles in this painting in both Hebrew and English.

For You Are With Me

Acrylic on canvas
20" x 20"
The language in the center of the heart is from Psalm 23. "Though I walk through a valley of deepest darkness, I fear no harm, for You are with me.."

Happy Butterfly

Collage and acrylic paint
28"x36"
Gesher Human Services' Creative Expressions artists collaborated over several weeks to paint paper, collage, trace and cut from stencils. The result is a stunning piece that highlights the incredible work of Creative Expressions artists.

Return To The Source

Acrylic, glass seed beads, cotton thread, pistachio shells, and wood beads on cotton canvas
12" DIAMETER
I am not interested in a world or even this world. I'm interested in worlds. Messy, uncontained energies that are the unique rotation of each of us. I am interested in the specific gravity that holds and rotates you and the pull and the push that moves me. I am interested in how we can be in alignment together and honor the unique atmospheres necessary for all of us to be. Just be.

If You Know Alef Beys

Charcoal/Pastel/Acrylic
68" x 42" High
'If you know Alef Beys- teach Alef Beys. If you know only Alef- teach Alef.' The Lubavitcher Rebbe - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Kiss the day goodbye

fiber
9.75 x12.75"
fiber, bead, buttons, vintage lace creating a crazy quilt framed in a vintage frame

Let this fantasy unfold

fiber
16.5 by 13.5"
crazy quilt "wave" appliqued with old neckties, embroidery, buttons, beads, chains and charms inside a vintage frame

Thirty six quilt.

fiber
70 x88"
This quilt began as the lower right and upper left squares being used as examples for a class I taught for the Great Lakes Recreation Leaders Laboratory. (Rec Lab). Each block has or is equivalent to 36 2.5 inch square blocks.

Lucky Day

sculpture/mixed
25" x 4" x 26"
Life can be rough. This piece allows you to escape and just play.

The Paddle

Silver
2 3/8” x 3/8”
Pendant “Never up the creek without a paddle"

Pendant - Triangle

Silver
1” x 3/4”
Body Mind Spirit

Pendant- Survivor

Silver
1 1/4” x 7/8”
I survived, you can too

A Dress for Rella

Mixed Medium, oil paint with hand dyed silk fabrics and threads
24" x 18"
When I was a young woman, about twenty-five years old, I made clothing for people. One of my dear friends was a woman named Rella. We became very close, and she gave me beautiful lace and fabrics to use in the dresses I made for her. Over time, I made Rella about a dozen beautiful dresses. I didn't know the story behind the fabric. One day, Rella told me where it had come from. She and her mother had been in Hungary when the Nazis were coming. Before they were taken away, Rella and her mother buried the fabric, hoping that somehow it might survive. The Nazis eventually took Rella and her mother to Auschwitz. Rella survived, and years later she told me about what had happened. She trusted me with her story. She wanted me to tell other people what she had lived through. She always said that people must remember. I have carried her words with me all these years. Recently, I was listening to public radio as they were remembering the liberation of Auschwitz. I began thinking about Rella and the dresses I had made for her. I remembered the beautiful lace she had given me, and I began to cry. That day, I started an oil painting. I wasn't consciously trying to paint Rella. I was simply painting. I added pieces of silk to the painting to form a dress, and I painted a beautiful young woman. I finished the painting and went to sleep. The next morning, when I looked at it again, I suddenly realized: I had painted Rella. I had not planned it. I had not been thinking, "I am painting Rella." Somehow, after all these years, she had come back to me through the painting. The dresses I made for her had once been made from fabric that had survived the Holocaust. The fabric had been hidden by Rella and her mother. Rella survived Auschwitz and carried the memory of what happened with her. And now, decades later, I was holding a brush and painting her again. I believe Rella wanted me to remember. She wanted other people to remember too. This painting is my way of keeping that promise. It is for Rella, for her mother, and for all those whose lives were taken or forever changed. We must remember.

Window (Detroit, Michigan Central Station)

Acrylic on wood
35" x 25"

Shalom

Acrylic on Wood
30"x20"

Jacob

Wood
25"x5"x5"
This is an abstracted figure of the founding father Jacob.

Bust of Bob Dylan

Resin, oil paint
6"x6"x3"
This is a small Portrait Bust of Bob Dylan.

Garden that I admire and love

Watercolor
18”x22”

Colorful Detroit 1

Creative Digital Photography
11x14

Colorful Detroit 2

Creative Digital Photography
11x14

Inform the Gardener

oil/canvas
38" x 26"

Accept The Sky Above Me

oil/canvas
58" x 44"

Turning Down the Heat

Mixed-media
27" x 18"x 12"
May Cooler Heads Prevail

Follow the Glass Brick Road

Smalti glass & media mosaic
26" x 12" x 1.5"
Triptych of smalti glass & mixed media mosaic

The Missing Piece

Mixed media mosaic
44" W x 13" H
Eight puzzle pieces made individually that fit together

Prayer Upon Seeing a Rainbow

Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36”
In Judaism there is a prayer to say upon seeing something beautiful in nature ; indeed there is a prayer for everything.

Yearning for the Light

Acrylic on canvas
36”x36”
We are always searching for truth, for peace, for a just world.

Resilience

Glass & Stone Mosaic
30" x 42"
“Resilience” is my response to the alarming rise in antisemitism worldwide. The mosaic reflects what it means to confront hatred and bigotry directly. The woman faces an oncoming storm with her eyes open and a steady, resolved expression. Even in the midst of this maelstrom, light persists—subtle but present—symbolizing hope and the possibility of clarity beyond turmoil. This work is about meeting hatred head-on, not with rage, but with strength, courage, and an enduring belief that goodness can prevail. I incorporated Jerusalem stone fragments shattered from a building in Tel Aviv during an Iranian missile attack in the 12-day war. My son collected these pieces after spending much of his visit in bomb shelters and brought them home to me, knowing I would want to incorporate them into a mosaic. These stones carry lived experience—fear, endurance, and survival—grounding the mosaic in both intimate and historical reality. Resilience invites viewers to consider how we confront danger and hatred, and how strength, hope, and light can persist even in the darkest moments.

I am Yemenite 2- Long Journey

Glass Mosaic
14" x 18"
"Long Journey" was inspired by historical photographs of Yemenite Jews making the extraordinary journey to Jerusalem during “On the Wings of Eagles,” also known as “Operation Magic Carpet,” from 1949–1950. The focal point of this mosaic is the man’s eyes. They reveal a lifetime of hardship, loss, resilience, and unwavering faith. His weathered face and walking stick evoke the thousands of Yemenite Jews who left more than 1,000 villages, towns, and cities across Yemen, many traveling on foot to the extraction point in Aden. They left behind their homes, possessions, and lives built over generations. Yet they carried with them what could not be left behind: their faith, identity, and longing for Jerusalem. His clothing tells another part of the story. His small turban reflects the restrictions placed upon Jewish men living as dhimmis—a protected yet socially subordinate minority. His traditional embroidered shirt and prayer shawl speak to the rich cultural and spiritual traditions of Yemenite Jewish life. This is more than the portrait of one man. He represents a people carrying generations of memory and faith across a harsh landscape toward a place they had carried in their hearts for centuries. He is Yemenite. He is Jewish. He endured. And he is going home.

Glacial Abstraction I & II - diptych

mixed media on panel
2 - 30" x 30"
Aiming to capture the abstract nature of Arctic landscapes after spending time in Svalbard

On Air

Acrylic and resin on wood panel
40" square
“There is a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones.” — Ecclesiastes 3:5 These paintings explore the tension between scattering and gathering—between the moments when life asks us to release what was and the moments when we begin collecting the pieces of what might come next. Shapes separate, collide, overlap, and reorganize themselves across the canvas, reflecting the continual process of dismantling and rebuilding a life, an identity, and a sense of belonging. This rhythm is deeply connected to my Jewish identity. Jewish life is shaped by cycles of rupture and return, exile and homecoming, loss and renewal. To gather the stones is not necessarily to restore what existed before. It is to recognize what remains, choose what to carry forward, and use it to build something new.

mixed signals

acrylic and resin on wood panel
24" square
“There is a time to throw stones and a time to gather stones.” — Ecclesiastes 3:5 These paintings explore the tension between scattering and gathering—between the moments when life asks us to release what was and the moments when we begin collecting the pieces of what might come next. Shapes separate, collide, overlap, and reorganize themselves across the canvas, reflecting the continual process of dismantling and rebuilding a life, an identity, and a sense of belonging. This rhythm is deeply connected to my Jewish identity. Jewish life is shaped by cycles of rupture and return, exile and homecoming, loss and renewal. To gather the stones is not necessarily to restore what existed before. It is to recognize what remains, choose what to carry forward, and use it to build something new.

Long Lake

Acrylic Paint
36"x36"
Abstracted water scene

Silver Ceramics

Pottery
15” x 6”
Appears silver metal

Vase

pottery
5x4"