Art Kibbutz International Jewish Artist Colony
  • Home
  • Public Programs
    • Public Programs
    • Public Programs in 2020
    • Public Programs in 2019
    • Public Programs in 2018 >
      • Lincoln Center Film Festival
      • Armory Show
      • NY Poetry Festival
      • Invisible Jew
      • Benefit Party >
        • Benefit Party
        • Tix & Support
        • Honorees
    • Public Programs in 2017
    • Festivals
    • Open Studios
    • Group Visits
    • Alumni Artist Events
    • Public Programs in Summer 2016 >
      • Creative Queers
      • NY Poetry Festival
      • Make Music New York Festival
      • ARt, ARchitecture & AR: Augmented Reality & Jewish Art
      • Klezmer Aerobics
      • Interactive Poetry Presentation
      • Lost Sock Project 'Oneness'
    • Public Programs in Summer 2015 >
      • Shmita ArtFest
      • Seven Minutes Between Heaven and Earth
      • Shpiel Performing Arts Workshop
    • Rooted Exhibition
    • Creative Catalyst Symposium >
      • The Creative Catalyst >
        • Schedule
        • Registration
    • Creative Family Circle
    • The Jewish Waltz with Planet Earth Exhibition
    • Shofar Flashmob
    • Drink'n'Draw
  • Artists
    • Artists & Curators 2018 >
      • Neshama Carlebach
      • Ronnit Vasserman
      • Ari Goldman
      • Goldie Gross
    • Artists 2017 >
      • Asherah Cinnamon
      • Ali Shrago-Spechler
      • Goldie Gross
      • Kobi Arad
      • Ronit Levin Delgado
      • Sky Kim
      • Oran Etkin
      • Natalie Jean
      • Shira Holder
      • Cecil Parker
      • Antonio Bamoozie
      • Shira Dicker
      • Deborah Kahan Kolb
      • Pinny Bulman
      • Jane Mushabac
      • Tamra Plotnick
      • Naftali Noah Lehrman
      • Raymond Richards-Mcnaught
      • Bobby Mcullough
    • Governor's Island Resident Artists 2016
    • Rooted Exhibition Participating Artists
    • Creative Catalyst Presenters
    • Governor's Island Resident Artists 2015
    • Governor's Island Resident Artists 2014
    • Figment Festival Resident Artists
    • Creative Family Circle Artists
    • New Museum Resident Artists
    • Environmental Art Residency Artists
    • Drink'n'Draw Featured Artists
    • Shofar Flashmob Featured Artists
  • Past Residencies
    • Past Residencies
    • Governor's Island Summer Residency 2016 >
      • Governor's Island Summer Residency 2016
      • Resident Artists 2016 >
        • Resident Artists
        • Yona Verwer >
          • ARt, ARchitecture & AR: Augmented Reality & Jewish Art
        • Cynthia Beth Rubin
        • Judith Margolis
        • Pinny Bulman
        • Andreas Savva
        • Boshko Boskovic
        • Eugenia Delfini
        • Kevin Bernstein
        • Julian Voloj
        • Benjamin Melendez
        • Tamra Plotnick
        • Ayelet Danielle Aldouby
        • Pesya Altman
        • Deborah Yarchun
        • Kyo Young Keum
        • Pearl Gluck
        • Ella Moriah Mason
        • Lori Goldberg
        • Hillel Broder
        • Debralynn Fein
        • Michal Berman
        • Jeremy Stoller
        • Sarah Sokolic
        • David Winitsky
        • Nicole Teeny
        • Malky Lipshitz
        • Melissa Weisz
        • Yishai Jesse Romanoff
        • Shira Holder
        • Hope Weiner
        • Michael Feder
        • Amy Oestreicher
        • Wannes Duponcheel
        • Nadia Randriamorasata
        • Jesse Freedman
        • Debra Epstein
        • Lev Ari
        • Aaron Moeller
        • Ali Shrago-Spechler
        • Raphael Rice
        • Anna Turai
        • Chavie Weisberger
        • Shira Dicker
        • Asherah Cinnamon
        • Daniel Brenner
        • Benjamin Melendez
        • Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat
        • Shaina Goldberg
        • Jennifer Rappaport
        • Kimani Fowlin
        • Dorene Schwartz-Weitz
        • Mitchell Harrison
        • Peggi Gottlieb
        • Zoi Klemencz
        • Alice Shockey
      • Fellowships
    • Governor's Island Residency 2015 >
      • Governor's Island Summer Residency 2015
      • Resident Artists 2015 >
        • Asherah Cinnamon
    • Governor's Island Residency 2014 >
      • Governor's Island Residency 2014
      • Governor's Island Resident Artists
    • Figment Festivals
    • New Museum Residency >
      • New Museum Residency
      • Resident Artists at the Draftsmen's Congress at the New Museum
    • Environmental/Land Art Residency >
      • Environmental/Land Art Residency
      • Environmental Art Eden Village Resident Artists >
        • Present with the Wind
        • Shema:Listen
        • Eden Waters
        • Gateway to Her Dwelling
        • Kabbalistic Improvisations
        • Foraging for Manna
        • The Gateway
      • Press release
      • Testimonials
  • Support
  • About
    • Staff >
      • Patricia Eszter Margit
    • Board of Directors
    • Advisory Commitee
    • Volunteer Teams
  • Press
  • Contact

Susan Hoffman Fishman

 Susan Hoffman Fishman is a third generation American Jew, raised within the American Conservative Movement and educated in art and art education during the turbulent American art movements of the 1970s.  As a result, her collaborative work with Elena Kalman is a constant conversation across Jewish and secular cultures. "We are especially interested in participating in the mini-residency because of our belief in the value of and their dedication to interactive, participatory art as well as our natural connection to a collaborative project involving Jewish artists." http://www.make-a-wave.org/

Susan works as a very part-time grant-writer to Art Kibbutz and helps with Federation-relations. She plays an essential part in creating our artist fellowships and micro grants.
Picture
Artist Statement

“Open House”                                                                                                                          
Site-Specific Installation on Governor’s Island, NYC, July – August, 2015
Artists: Susan Hoffman Fishman and Elena Kalman

After studying the potential spaces available to us in the former army officer’s home that was serving as the four-month studio and exhibition facility for Art Kibbutz, we ultimately chose to work under the main stairwell in a hallway on the first floor of this formerly elegant building that had lain fallow for years. Using black parachute cord, painter’s plastic and charcoal, we transformed the ‘dead’ space into an intimate place, an “open house,” in which visitors were ‘invited’ to imagine the past life that existed here and place themselves in its present configuration. The vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines that we hung from wall to ceiling to floor provide the outlines of a structure’s roof and walls and suggest the architectural elements of a fence, a portico, a gable. The pieces of plastic that are covering sections of the existing plaster walls in the hallway have become ‘paintings’ decorating the interior of the new structure.  These ‘paintings’ are artifacts of the peeling paint and cracks that reflect the building’s decay and were created by rubbing charcoal gently over the plastic. 

Open House is the first installation on the theme of home and homelessness that we are currently exploring in a new, collaborative, interactive public art project.  A second installation in which participants create sections of a ‘home’ took place in Stamford, CT on August 5, 2015 in partnership with New Neighborhoods, Inc. and Shelter for the Homeless, non-profit organizations dedicated to providing affordable housing and shelter in the Stamford area. 

Susan Hoffman Fishman is a painter, public artist and educator. Elena Kalman is an architect, painter, sculptor and public artist. Since 2011, they have collaborated on The Wave, a major interactive, public art project that has been installed in 19 museums, galleries, parks and  schools in four states, including: The Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA), the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT), The National Aquarium (Baltimore, MD), The Greenway (Boston, MA) and the Allegra LaViola Gallery (NYC). Please see www.make-a-wave.org for additional information.
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Public Programs
    • Public Programs
    • Public Programs in 2020
    • Public Programs in 2019
    • Public Programs in 2018 >
      • Lincoln Center Film Festival
      • Armory Show
      • NY Poetry Festival
      • Invisible Jew
      • Benefit Party >
        • Benefit Party
        • Tix & Support
        • Honorees
    • Public Programs in 2017
    • Festivals
    • Open Studios
    • Group Visits
    • Alumni Artist Events
    • Public Programs in Summer 2016 >
      • Creative Queers
      • NY Poetry Festival
      • Make Music New York Festival
      • ARt, ARchitecture & AR: Augmented Reality & Jewish Art
      • Klezmer Aerobics
      • Interactive Poetry Presentation
      • Lost Sock Project 'Oneness'
    • Public Programs in Summer 2015 >
      • Shmita ArtFest
      • Seven Minutes Between Heaven and Earth
      • Shpiel Performing Arts Workshop
    • Rooted Exhibition
    • Creative Catalyst Symposium >
      • The Creative Catalyst >
        • Schedule
        • Registration
    • Creative Family Circle
    • The Jewish Waltz with Planet Earth Exhibition
    • Shofar Flashmob
    • Drink'n'Draw
  • Artists
    • Artists & Curators 2018 >
      • Neshama Carlebach
      • Ronnit Vasserman
      • Ari Goldman
      • Goldie Gross
    • Artists 2017 >
      • Asherah Cinnamon
      • Ali Shrago-Spechler
      • Goldie Gross
      • Kobi Arad
      • Ronit Levin Delgado
      • Sky Kim
      • Oran Etkin
      • Natalie Jean
      • Shira Holder
      • Cecil Parker
      • Antonio Bamoozie
      • Shira Dicker
      • Deborah Kahan Kolb
      • Pinny Bulman
      • Jane Mushabac
      • Tamra Plotnick
      • Naftali Noah Lehrman
      • Raymond Richards-Mcnaught
      • Bobby Mcullough
    • Governor's Island Resident Artists 2016
    • Rooted Exhibition Participating Artists
    • Creative Catalyst Presenters
    • Governor's Island Resident Artists 2015
    • Governor's Island Resident Artists 2014
    • Figment Festival Resident Artists
    • Creative Family Circle Artists
    • New Museum Resident Artists
    • Environmental Art Residency Artists
    • Drink'n'Draw Featured Artists
    • Shofar Flashmob Featured Artists
  • Past Residencies
    • Past Residencies
    • Governor's Island Summer Residency 2016 >
      • Governor's Island Summer Residency 2016
      • Resident Artists 2016 >
        • Resident Artists
        • Yona Verwer >
          • ARt, ARchitecture & AR: Augmented Reality & Jewish Art
        • Cynthia Beth Rubin
        • Judith Margolis
        • Pinny Bulman
        • Andreas Savva
        • Boshko Boskovic
        • Eugenia Delfini
        • Kevin Bernstein
        • Julian Voloj
        • Benjamin Melendez
        • Tamra Plotnick
        • Ayelet Danielle Aldouby
        • Pesya Altman
        • Deborah Yarchun
        • Kyo Young Keum
        • Pearl Gluck
        • Ella Moriah Mason
        • Lori Goldberg
        • Hillel Broder
        • Debralynn Fein
        • Michal Berman
        • Jeremy Stoller
        • Sarah Sokolic
        • David Winitsky
        • Nicole Teeny
        • Malky Lipshitz
        • Melissa Weisz
        • Yishai Jesse Romanoff
        • Shira Holder
        • Hope Weiner
        • Michael Feder
        • Amy Oestreicher
        • Wannes Duponcheel
        • Nadia Randriamorasata
        • Jesse Freedman
        • Debra Epstein
        • Lev Ari
        • Aaron Moeller
        • Ali Shrago-Spechler
        • Raphael Rice
        • Anna Turai
        • Chavie Weisberger
        • Shira Dicker
        • Asherah Cinnamon
        • Daniel Brenner
        • Benjamin Melendez
        • Rabba Dr. Anat Sharbat
        • Shaina Goldberg
        • Jennifer Rappaport
        • Kimani Fowlin
        • Dorene Schwartz-Weitz
        • Mitchell Harrison
        • Peggi Gottlieb
        • Zoi Klemencz
        • Alice Shockey
      • Fellowships
    • Governor's Island Residency 2015 >
      • Governor's Island Summer Residency 2015
      • Resident Artists 2015 >
        • Asherah Cinnamon
    • Governor's Island Residency 2014 >
      • Governor's Island Residency 2014
      • Governor's Island Resident Artists
    • Figment Festivals
    • New Museum Residency >
      • New Museum Residency
      • Resident Artists at the Draftsmen's Congress at the New Museum
    • Environmental/Land Art Residency >
      • Environmental/Land Art Residency
      • Environmental Art Eden Village Resident Artists >
        • Present with the Wind
        • Shema:Listen
        • Eden Waters
        • Gateway to Her Dwelling
        • Kabbalistic Improvisations
        • Foraging for Manna
        • The Gateway
      • Press release
      • Testimonials
  • Support
  • About
    • Staff >
      • Patricia Eszter Margit
    • Board of Directors
    • Advisory Commitee
    • Volunteer Teams
  • Press
  • Contact