Make your own Haggadah Zine to spice up your Passover Seder conversations.
Each week, one of our team of artist-educators - Yael Roberts, Emily Marbach and Tilla Crowne - will share an exciting teaching and guide you to create a piece of art in response. You will leave with a unique zine-style supplement for your Haggadah and lots of new ideas and imagery to bring to the table.
No previous experience required and all materials included.
8 March: Working with sculpture and photography, artist and educator Yael Roberts will guide you in an exploration of the symbolism of the four (or five!) cups of wine drunk as part of the Passover Seder.
15 March: Emily Marbach, collagist and creator of the Collage Haggadah, will help you interpret the trope of the Four Children in unexpected and uniquely creative ways.
22 March: Sculptor and printmaker David Hochhauser will guide you in creating lino prints that respond to the mysterious Chad Gadya ("One Little Goat") parable traditionally sung at the close of the Passover Seder.
29 March: Blood, lice, death! Tilla Crown, visual artist and creator/co-editor of Private Oy!, will lead you on an illustrative journey through the ten plagues.
Yael Roberts
Yael Roberts is an artist and Jewish educator who lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Arts and a BA in English Literature, Studio Art, and Jewish Studies from Yeshiva University. She has taught art-making and Jewish text internationally: with Yente Zine at Oxford University, BIMA at Brandeis University, the Nesiyah Institute, Miknaf Haaretz, and Homos & Houmous at Sadeh Farm. Recent shows include Cubitt 30 at Victoria Miro Gallery, London and In the Field at Ein Sof Gallery. She has received a DYCP grant from Arts Council England and is part of the new Radical European Jewish Calendar for 5783. Awards include Pauper's Press Prize and London Art Events Prize (Festival of Print 2019), Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos Residencv Award and The Shayndel Feuerstein Award in Literature and Art.
Emily Marbach
Emily Marbach is a figurative and frequently political collagist living in London. Most notably she has exhibited and sold paintings and a collage at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions for two summers running. She was represented by Long&Ryle. Her work was exhibited with the shortlisted winners of the Ashurst Prize in May 2016. In the past several years, Emily’s collages have appeared in a few books such as Collage Care by Laurie Kanyer.
Most recently, Marbach had three works in a folklore exhibition in Sanquhar, Scotland which will soon be travelling to Knoxville, TN. In May 2022, Emily had her first solo exhibition at Slash Arts Gallery near King’s Cross in London. She exclusively exhibited collages, a pair of Emily’s collages were part of the “Allegories, Renditions, and A Small Nation of Women" at the Yale University Divinity School. Her collages appeared in Contemporary Collage Magazine. Marbach’s interview with the Chilean podcast Art Notes (on Spotify) will be released any moment. She exhibited at the Italian Collage Collection’s Biennial exhibition and book in Bari and the Hidden Identity Project’s Sky of Stars Exhibition at the Bulgarian Embassy’s gallery in September 2021. Her latest prints were exhibited at POSK Gallery in February 2020.
Emily published the Collage Haggadah in February 2021 which include over seventy figurative collages and a new translation of the text by the artist. Emily gave an artist talk in February 2021 through the Jewish Art Salon and at Jewish Book Week at King’s Place in February 2022. The book has been reviewed widely in publications like Hey Alma and the Jewish Chronicle.
Currently, Emily is working on a series of collages based on a Yom Kippur prayer and previously she completed 29 collages in response to Proverbs 31, reflections on strong and capable womanhood.
Emily has plans to return to the Haggadah and try to make a children’s Collage Haggadah. Watch this space (particularly on instagram @collagenottinghill
David Hochhauser
David Hochhauser is a sculptor and printmaker, whose work focuses on iterations of the figure, Jewish identity and body, and permanence. He has exhibited pieces internationally and is currently pursuing a master's degree in anthropology, informing his studio practice. A co-founder of the Jewish artistic collective Davar, he is enthusiastic about continuing the rich cultural tradition of merging Jewish textual learning with visual responses.
Tilla Crowne
Tilla is a visual artist whose work concentrates on drawing and installation, exploring themes of identity, memory, sexual violence, and the body. Largely autobiographical, she uses biological materials such as broken eggshells and living matter – plants, insects, fungus – as media, either drawing directly onto them or using them to transform objects and spaces.
She is also the creator and co-editor of Private Oy! - the UK’s foremost parody magazine of a parody magazine - providing a mix of journalism, satire and silliness on the Jewish community as a free printed zine delivered to your door.
