September 15, 2024 Silvina Mizrahi:
A Sephardic Spirit

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“Silvina Mizrahi: A Sephardic Spirit”

Exhibit: September 15—December 20, 2024
Hours: M-Th 9 AM- 4 PM; Fr 9:00 AM- 1 PM

The bold and multifaceted richness of Sephardic life is reflected in Hebrew College’s fall art exhibit, “Silvina Mizrahi: A Sephardic Spirit”, curated by Hebrew College Trustee Deb Feinstein, who spearheads the Hebrew College Arts Initiative. Read more about the exhibit here. (Pictured: “Prayer in Blue” 40×30, mixed media.) 

Mizrahi’s original artwork will be available for purchase during the fall exhibit! Through a generous arrangement with the artist, a portion of the proceeds will be given to Hebrew College.

This exhibit is presented by the Hebrew College Arts Initiative.

About the Artist

Silvina Mizrahi is a painter, sculptor, dancer, teacher, and theater performer from Argentina, Israel, and Boston whose work focuses on building bridges, her love of life, and her ancestral past. She brings joy, talent, and the Sephardic spirit to each of her fields of art.

Mizrahi’s art explodes over the surface with her multi-media collages, strong acrylic colors, and bold brushstrokes. Many of her works show bits of puzzles, shining sequins, gemstones intermixed with dancing figures, bright colored shadows of the human form, and the blazing light of the sun. The viewer is transported to another world — harmonizing light, nature, and movement. As an accomplished dancer and choreographer, her figures literally leap across the surface.

While living in Israel, Mizrahi was selected for two solo exhibitions, in the Jerusalem Municipal Gallery and the Jerusalem Center for performing Arts. In addition, she was awarded with the Israel National Fellowship for New Immigrants.

Mizrahi exhibits widely in Argentina; Boston (Newbury Street, the DeCordova Museum, and the MFA in Boston) and Provincetown, MA; Sausalito, CA; and New York. In 2012, she was awarded “One of the 100 most influential people for the Latino Community in Boston.” Her community work includes a mural created with Boston’s Blackstone Elementary School, Red Sox, and ARCK; a multimedia art piece for Massachusetts General Hospital, and environmental sculpture with Hebrew SeniorLife and the Divas Mentoring Program. Silvina also has participated as a sculptor in the site specific Studios Without Walls exhibition in Brookline, MA  and serves on the curatorial committee.

Dancers

At the opening event, the more than 100 guests were treated to a tango performance. Read about the dancers below.

Erica Skye Roper: Argentine Tango Instructor

Erica’s first memory is learning folk dances with her grandparents. She began performing folk dances at ten and began learning Argentine Tango at Amherst College at nineteen. Erica played at the edges of Contact improv and tango fusion for more than fifteen years and began teaching dance in 2007. She has expanded her offerings over the years to include Intuitive Tango, Tango Fusion, ConTango Fusion, Salsa Rueda, and Taking-Back-Boundaries workshops. She brings a devotion to life long learning through a continuing study of dance and movement as well as the desire to strengthen and build community into the center of all of her teaching.

Scott fell in love with the challenge of learning tango in 2002. Before that he had been a wrestler all through middle and high school which helps him to bring a deep knowledge of body awareness and movement into his dance form. After learning and dancing tango all across the US and abroad, he moved to Buenos Aires in 2015 where he danced with Porteños and learned directly from the great Milongueros. He has been teaching private lessons and group classes throughout New Hampshire since 2012. For him, tango is a wonderful journey of personal growth focused on connection, presence, grounding, empathy, and awareness.

— Dancer bios courtesy of Everglow Wellness in Keene, NH

Tamid of Hebrew College: Adult Learning Opportunities

To complement the exhibit and enrich your learning, Hebrew College will be offering adult learning courses and experiences about Sephardic Judaism, culture, and history beginning in October including:

• “Eating the Proverbs of Sephardic Jewry” (8 monthly sessions on Sunday mornings) with Ariella Amshalem
• “The Legacy of Sepharad and Modern Judaism” (4 evening sessions) with Rabbi Lenny Gordon

VIEW THE COURSE CATALOG AND REGISTER