Name: Challah Bake! Sculpture and Symbolism through Baking
Start: 2024-05-16T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island

Challah Bake! Sculpture and Symbolism through Baking

Join us for a challah bake unlike any other. In this workshop participants are invited to think about challah through the lenses of mindfulness and sustainability. We’ll connect each ingredient to Jewish values and symbolism and come away with new relationships to how we eat and create with intentionality and care.
Participants are invited to use the dough like clay to form shapes and structures that tell stories and to consider the architecture of the divine and the everyday. Participants will leave with dough to bring home, build, and bake, and their own hand-made sculptural mini challahs. All ages welcome!
About Your Instructor:
Zo Baker is an artist, curator, and educator who explores themes of memory, ritual, and Jewish culture through community-centered social practice. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Zo received their BFA in Sculpture from SUNY New Paltz in MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, where they hosted storytelling shabbat dinners, baking workshops, pie socials, and all kinds of food-related arts events. They currently live in Providence RI and are serving as the Artist in Residence at the Jewish Alliance.