MOCACREATE: Build a Bright World with Teaching Artist Yu Rong

The first seminar for Leadership Camp VII, focusing on the theme a̷s̷i̷a̷ ̷u̷n̷a̷u̷t̷h̷o̷r̷i̷z̷e̷d̷, will be held in-person. Subsequent meetings will take place in March, April, and May 2026.

Paint, layer, and photograph translucent materials to reflect movement, change, and environmental transformation in this multimedia workshop, creating images that capture fleeting moments and delicate transitions. Led by Teaching Artist-in-Residence Susan Richman, and inspired by works in Modern Women / Modern Vision by Barbara Morgan and Imogen Cunningham, as well as Richman’s own Dissolving Boundaries series that documents the changing environment.

Join us for an in-person three-session seminar on select Mondays—February 2, 9, and 23—inspired by art in the Jewish Museum Collection, led by Nelly Silagy Benedek, Deputy Director, Education & Programs. This class examines the work of several Impressionist painters against the backdrop of the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that rocked and divided France beginning in 1894.