Shirah Rubin is an artist, educator, and consultant working from a studio in Boston, MA. She creates sculpture and socially engaged community-based art. With over twenty years of experience teaching art to adults, high school students, and elementary school students, Shirah has a keen understanding of creativity and human development. As a result, she is able to inspire and challenge participants accordingly. Shirah founded Co-Imagine Arts, which supports leaders, group organizers, and participants in utilizing the arts as a transformative tool for creativity, personal growth, and community engagement. She tailors her unique arts workshops to the custom needs of diverse groups and individuals.
Art in Odd Places (AiOP - Art in Odd Places) 2024: CARE. Curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek
Ready. Set, Pause....Art Activation, 10 x 10 feet vinyl labyrinth, Shirah Rubin
How can creativity be a form of self-care? What does it mean to pause for a few moments in the midst of one’s busy day? This art LAByrinth: Ready, Set, Pause invites pedestrians to walk on the path of a labyrinth to meditate on 14th St in NYC.. The goal of this activity is to have a contemplative experience that prompts participants to connect to themselves. After the return from the “creativity center” of the labyrinth participants will receive a handmade labyrinth souvenir which reminds them to “hold” the insight they received from the listening walk.
I collaborate with organizations to co-create unique and impactful arts experiences in alignment with the needs of your community. I am happy to discuss with you what type of LAByrinth workshop best further develops your vision and elevates the conversations you would like the art to spark. Contact me to start the conversation.
coimaginearts@gmail.com and visit LAByrinth Art workshops for more details.
AiOP - Art in Odd Places) 2024: CARE. Curatorial Statement
Care is a ripple. From intimate to global, from self-care, care of family and lover, friend and neighbor, town and city, state and country, the global world, care undulates out to our whole island planet and every species upon it. To care is to look after, provide for, to watch over, to grieve, to lament, to cry, to feel concern, to attach importance. In a year of political turmoil, war, and environmental devastation, how wide can our caring arms be embraced? Who can we give care to? What can we care about? What can we watch over? What and who can we be careful about? Who is deemed worthy of care? What is appropriate care? When is care invasive? Should we care? Can we not care? Do we have that luxury? How can we give protective attention, caution, concern, and prudence? Can we extend care beyond our bodily, familial, national, species, and earthly borders? AiOP 2024 asks how art can create spaces and actions of compassionate fearless care. Can we offer and enter them with joy and love?
AiOP Curatorial Manager: Valentina Zamora. Producer: Robin Schatell. Founder & Director: Ed Woodham. Art in Odd Places is fiscally sponsored by GOH Productions, and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and private donors.
Press on the AiOP Festival in Hyperallergic
"LAByrinth Project: Ready, Set, Pause" Art in Odd Places Festival, October, 2024
Book Co-Imagine Arts Collaborative Workshops for 2024 here
Would you like to build engaging professional development opportunities for your organization with groups using the creative process? Contact me for more information on Collaborative Art Workshops for communities to connect through art-making.