Site: Yizkor — Artist-Led Workshop with Maya Ciarrocchi

Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce Site: Yizkor, a free participatory workshop led by Bronx artist Maya Ciarrocchi Attendees of all ages are invited to reflect on the vanished places in their lives through drawing, writing, and storytelling. Space is limited. R.S.V.P. required 718.581.1596 or art@riverspring.org. Photo I.D. required for admission.

During the workshop, participants will be invited to respond to the following prompt: “describe a vanished place of personal importance or a place you once lived.” These responses can include descriptions of buildings, houses, neighborhoods, or villages through map making, drawing, text, or spoken word. Participants will then read and show their responses to the group, and the workshop will conclude with a group conversation.

Site: Yizkor is an ongoing workshop, performance, and visual art project that centers on individual and collective manifestations of loss and displacement through text, video, movement, and music. Its source material includes architectural renderings of demolished buildings, memory maps of vanished places, and prose remembrances obtained from extant Yizkor (memorial) books and project participants.

Image: Maya Ciarrocchi, Crown, 2020 (detail). Monotype on paper, 30 x 22 in. Courtesy the artist.