We’ll collage fabrics, embroider and share individual stories, contributing to a collective public art quilt that will be installed at JW3. Young JW3 is one of many groups participating in the wider Quilting Jewish London project taking place across 2027.
You’ll also help to create and take home a custom tea towel, while contributing a square to the collective quilt.
Bring along personal items, recipes, songs or rituals that are positive reflections of what being Jewish means to you - things you’d like future generations of Jewish Londoners to discover, remember and connect with. This could include an old camp t-shirt, a tote bag from a Jewish experience, your great-great-grandfather's tallit, your bubbe's chicken soup recipe, a poem you read in shul, a ritual you perform, song lyrics... whatever holds positive meaning for you. You can also write or print something out and bring it along.
The workshop will be audio recorded, but participants will remain anonymous.
Participation in the Quilting Jewish London project is free. We’re offering a subsidised light dinner alongside the session, with a £5 contribution requested towards the cost of dinner.
About the artist
Vogl is American & British with an international practice centred around printmaking and public art. She describes her community engagement works as social sculptures; they engage individuals to share data about themselves that are collectively reflected in colourful large scale installations. Her work primarily focuses on what things do we, as humans, share and what makes us distinct. All her works aim to represent the individual that participates as well as the collective, as beautiful installations that foster a greater conversation.
She received a BA in politics and art from Oberlin College, Ohio USA, and has an MFA from University College London, Slade School of Art. Sha has been commissioned by Tate, ITV, Facebook, Hull 2017 City of Culture, Jewish Arts Collaborative in Boston Common, and recently Greater London Authority and the Royal Borough of Kingston in London. She was co-founder of London Brain Project, linking art and neuroscience (between 2013-1018) Vogl has been on residencies world wide from Chinese International School, in Hong Kong, to recently Kala Art Institute in Berkeley California. In Berkeley she unveiled her collaborative work with artist Gabriella Willenz- "Eve's Eden" featuring a film with Mira Awad written by Anita Diamant. Vogl was Winner of the Aesthetica Art prize in 2011, she has given a Ted X and had her work recognised by American for the Arts Public Art in Review for 2012, 2016, and 2019.
Vogl is currently teaching and continuing her research as a full time permanent Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, UK.
www.Juliavogl.com
