Create your own playful family portrait with everyday objects in a live art-workshop with award-winning Israeli artist Hanoch Piven. You will have an opportunity to look at your home with fresh eyes and reflect on what makes your family special as you learn Piven’s unique method of making collages with objects you have in your home. Ideal for families with children ages 4+.

This workshop will draw inspiration from the book of Ruth, read on the holiday of Shavuot. We will explore the idea of gleaning and making do with what you find as a way of building resilience.

Upon registration, participants will receive an introductory video from Hanoch Piven and information about collecting materials for your collage.

This workshop will include live captions.

If we can make this program more accessible to your family, please let us know by emailing engagement@pjlibrary.org.

Hanoch Piven’s colorful and witty collages have appeared throughout the last 25 years in most major American magazines and newspapers such as Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone. In Israel, Piven’s name has become a synonym of Creativity. Piven has had a long-running column of his illustrations in the daily Haaretz, created TV programs for Israel’s Educational TV, and developed a method of art-creation implemented around the world.

Shira and Hanoch will begin the workshop with a conversation about their forthcoming PJ Library book about the lives and stories of Biblical characters and how they embody values like curiosity, trusting oneself, kindness, imagination, and more. To provide entry points to these stories, Piven is creating the faces of 12 Biblical characters with everyday objects, providing engaging visual clues to diverse Biblical moments.