Conspire Studio is hosting a Rosh Hashanah Artist Residency from September 10th-17th with guest artists Sonia Marcus, tikva kingrea, alinahh ever, and Kat MacÃas.
This week-long spiritual and creative deep-dive will explore inquiries around home, dispossession, and belonging in individual and collective ways.
What does it mean to return home to ourselves, and what helps us be able to do so? What about our collective homes? What might teachings about the mishkan have to illuminate for us about our relationship to ourselves and our homes?
we invite you to join us on September 17th
to witness, celebrate, & respond to the work of our artists-in-residence
Thursday, September 17th 5:30-7pm
Dinner & Artmaking
catered by Gypsy Queen
art supplies provided
facilitated by Dani Austin & Kat Macias
our ticketed event will be followed by a free celebratory reception!
Come witness and celebrate the work and get a chance to chat with the artists. Drinks provided.
7-8pm
our artists-in-residence
kat macias
is part of the Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas and a guest on Cherokee and Muscogee land. They come from a long lineage of spiritual seekers and leaders and carrying this legacy, they have helped build the communities we most need in the world including a DC congregation called New Synagogue Project and Signal Fire (a radical Jewish artists coop). Kat Macias currently serves as the Managing Director of Tzedek Lab and offers spiritual support through their work as a Spiritual Director, Ritualist, and Creative Facilitator through ReclaimSpirituality.com
sonia marcus
is the author of the essays at Return & Fetch It on Substack, where she publishes under the pseudonym Bajla Gertner. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a Reform Jewish family of Polish and French descent that was deeply impacted by the Holocaust. Sonia has been a member of the Asheville community since 2013, holding roles at UNC Asheville and Southern Dharma, and she is a current board member with Carolina Jews for Justice. Sonia co-founded and directs UCP Support Hub, a crisis counseling service for English-speaking activists on the ground in the West Bank.
tikva kingrea
is a swamp baby, born and raised on the gulf coast of louisiana and alabama. this means she was the only jewish person she knew in her immediate area, besides her family members, throughout the majority of her childhood and adolescence. she is an artist, educator, and counselor-in-training at lenoir-rhyne university. she is currently studying to become a belated bat mitzvah, during her 40th year around the sun! play, depth, creativity, soul spelunking, and general care for the world keep catching her attention during personal and social times of collapse and rebirth, i.e. the on-going cycle of life.
alinahh ever
(ki/ker or they/them) weaves together beauty, utility and sacredness in cloth and life. After spending time in Guatemaya, alinahh was deeply inspired by the Tzutujil Mayan women who weave gorgeous colorful cloth on backstrap looms. Spending time learning this practice as well as natural dyeing from plants from these women has since informed their fiber practice. alinahh is in love with natural fibers and natural colors from our beloved Earth. They have a devotion to creating handwoven pieces that are in tune with the Earth, are sustainable, beautiful and functional. alinahh is passionate about collaborative art and excited to bring their fiber art into creating projects with others that support sustainable Earth-loving approaches and social justice towards a world where we treat ourselves, the Earth, and others with kindness and respect. alinahh has a Masters in Education from San Francisco State, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Wesleyan University (Connecticut), and completed a Fiber Arts program at Haywood Community College. Ki is also a Singing Resistance & community