December 16th
7-9 p.m.
Moishe House LA
3625 May Street
Los Angeles, CA
Be a Part of Art this Hanukkah Season will feature two participatory art pieces. As a way to give and receive during our 'festival of lights' we invite you be a part of these art exchanges.
The Homesite Clothing Exchange and The Longest Potholder
Homesite Clothing Exchange
Artists Joyce Dallal and Lauren M. Kasmer invite you to barter at their HOMESITE CLOTHING EXCHANGE. Bring a wearable you are willing to exchange. Write its story. Select and trade it for another item contributed by other participants or local businesses such as MODAC Museum of Fashion Designers and Creators and American Apparel. This exchange will be documented and archived as part of the Homesite art installation which began in 1990.
JAI members are also invited to initiate the newest Homesite participatory activity: The HOMESITE RECIPE EXCHANGE
Think about a recipe that signifies “home” to you to contribute to this exchange. For more info: homesiterecipe.blogspot.com
The Longest Potholder
You are cordially invited to participate in
The Longest Potholder's next run. (Pun intended.)
Bring socks (clean, please!)
The Longest Potholder continues a series of communal, participatory performance installation events, which add to an already long and unwieldy potholder. Visitors donate their (clean) “unwed socks,” including them in the installation. Sitting among strangers and cutting socks crosswise into loops, people weave potholders on children’s potholder looms, meshing them onto The Longest Potholder, and adding their names to the list of Potholder Participants.
The purpose of The Longest Potholder (now over 100 feet long) is to cause disparate groups of people to come together and create for no reason. An inquiry into community, authorship, and the true source of art, The Longest Potholder yearns for growth. It yearns for you.
See both art pieces at the exhibition: “Actions, Conversations, and Intersections,” January 2010 at the Los Angeles Municipal At Gallery at Barnsdall.
Dr. David E. Kaufman has a B.A. from Columbia College with majors in architecture and Hebrew literature, an M.A. in Jewish education from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and a Ph.D. in American Jewish history from Brandeis University. Prior to joining the faculty of HUC, he taught as an adjunct professor at Brown University, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Hebrew College, the New School, and the City University of New York (at its Baruch, Queens, and York College campuses). 
