Dorene Schwart-Weitz
Dorene Schwartz-Weitz is a multi-media artist, who is accomplished in many disciplines including silk-screening, airbrushing, Polaroid transfer, colored pencil, batik, photography, sculpture, interior design and apparel design, but prefers watercolor and acrylic painting.
She received Masters degrees from Rutgers University in Creative Arts in Education and in teaching Holocaust Studies. Gravitating to drawing, she taught portraiture incorporating mixed media, as a professor of Fine Art and Humanities Art History, for the next 40 years. Her “Portraits of Survivors” became an international, interdisciplinary, inter-generational educational program. Students trained in portraiture sat with Holocaust survivors to listen, as they drew their portraits, wrote their stories, made documentary films, and performed musical selections from the era at public openings.
"At Art Kibbutz I will continue my Mitzvah Kotel project. Each of the positive mitzvot (commandments) which we can perform now, before the building of the 3rd Temple, is being represented in relief sculpture. Upon completion, these pieces will be assembled as a wall, a Kotel, in Israel."
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Dorene Schwartz-Weitz is a multi-media artist, who is accomplished in many disciplines including silk-screening, airbrushing, Polaroid transfer, colored pencil, batik, photography, sculpture, interior design and apparel design, but prefers watercolor and acrylic painting.
She received Masters degrees from Rutgers University in Creative Arts in Education and in teaching Holocaust Studies. Gravitating to drawing, she taught portraiture incorporating mixed media, as a professor of Fine Art and Humanities Art History, for the next 40 years. Her “Portraits of Survivors” became an international, interdisciplinary, inter-generational educational program. Students trained in portraiture sat with Holocaust survivors to listen, as they drew their portraits, wrote their stories, made documentary films, and performed musical selections from the era at public openings.
"At Art Kibbutz I will continue my Mitzvah Kotel project. Each of the positive mitzvot (commandments) which we can perform now, before the building of the 3rd Temple, is being represented in relief sculpture. Upon completion, these pieces will be assembled as a wall, a Kotel, in Israel."
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