If you had to travel far from home tomorrow and could only take what fit in your pocket what would you choose? What textures, shapes, colors, make you feel safe and remind you of home? Drawing upon traditions of Jewish diasporic amulet-making for protection, safe travel, good luck, and good health we will use fabric, beads, embroidery and other embellishment techniques to create charms for this moment. 

Bio

Charlie Dov Schön is an interdisciplinary artist creating contemporary ritual objects across textile and sculpture. Her work has been shown widely at venues including Tufts University Art Galleries (Boston, MA), Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery (Waltham, MA), The Wellin Museum of Art (Clinton, NY), and as a part of New York Textile Month (NYC). She has received residencies from Arrowmont School of Craft (TN), Flathead Lake Biological Station (MT), and Art Farm Nebraska. She is currently mounting a workshop series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in conversation with their exhibition, The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt. Her work was shown in the inaugural launch of the Judeofuturism Project at the Boston Center for the Arts.