design

purim extravaganzas
A Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence (2019)

A Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence (2019)

A Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence (2019)

Purim Unleashed: An Oracular Heist (2018)
Purim Unleashed: An Oracular Heist (2018)

Purim Unleashed: An Oracular Heist (2018)



Your Homentashn Are Killing Me! A Purim Ball for the body, its resilience, its fragility, and its bounce (2012)

You Better Work! A Very Precarious Purim, A Pageant for Laborers & Lovers (2011)


Lower East Shushan: A Purim of Vacant Lots (2009)

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other costumes & set pieces
Bobes/Hellmouth for “Bobe Mayses: Yiddish Knights & Other Impossibilities” (2016)

Creatures and costumes for “Between Two Worlds, or, who loved you before you were mine” (2009)

Machine gun / sewing machine transforming set piece for National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene’s “Itzik Manger’s Megile” (2013)

City backdrop / circus wagon transforming set piece for National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene’s “Itzik Manger’s Megile” (2013)

Hitachi Magic Wand for Ariel Speedwagon Federow at Miss LEZ Pageant

Costumes for Abigail Levine’s “88-89-90” (2010)

Costumes for Abigail Levine’s “88-89-90″(2010)

Wall and platform for Abigail Levine’s “Choreographing LeWitt” (2015)

Hamsa lanterns & fringed light-poles for Jews For Racial & Economic Justice’s 2017 Marshall Meyer Risktaker Awards

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other puppets &c
Billy Budd, Captain Vere, John Claggart, albatros, & vulture puppets from “Foretopman, or, HMS Handsome Pinafore, or, The Bugger’s Opera, or, The Last That Loved a Sailor, or, Hardly Ever” (2009)

Dockside cruising scene from “do not spare: in the sun of marshes” (2008)

Approaching the city scene from “do not spare: in the sun of marshes” (2008)

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stencils & appliqué
leather applique of little red riding hood, from behind, holding a basket and a gold AK-47 & with a circle-alef on her cape, with "now i know, don't be scared / granny is right, just be prepared" and "fight fascism" written around her
Little Red / Into the Woods leather appliqué backpatch (2016)
“Feygele / Birdie / Faggot” Yiddish clamdiggers

a photo of a brass band marching in the street, carrying appliqué banners about state violence
Abolitionist banners about state violence for the Rude Mechanical Orchestra (~2014)
stencil on the back of a black sleeveless shirt: the face of president mckinley with red crosshairs on the forehead, written below: "i done my duty - leon czolgosz"
“i done my duty” leon czolgosz shirt backpiece (2005)
Pirke Avos 1:10 jacket backpiece: “love work, hate authority, and don’t let the people in power know what you’re doing.”

“punk in all the wrong colors” vest front pieces

“punk in all the wrong colors” vest backpiece

“Entartete / Degenerate” Yiddish/German tank top

“molotov cocktail” overlay backpatch

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clothing & leatherwork
Leather & fur vest

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drawn & graphic work
a digital collage: a witch as the statue of liberty, holdng a hamentashn in tongs; little red riding hood in a birch forest under a rainbow; a blue moon above them. info about the Kol Tzedek 5782 purimshpil, based on Into the Woods, at the bottom.
“Into the Purim” poster for Kol Tzedek’s 5782 purimshpil, “Shmita Purim Goes Into the Woods” (2022)

“vu s’iz farbrent” [where it’s burnt up] for Czolgosz Szyzygy #1 (2020) – text by perets markish & mariame kaba

illuminated names of the months of the jewish calendar, written in color over black & white drawings
Names of the months for the 5783 Radical Jewish Calendar (2022)

illuminated names of the months of the jewish calendar, each in a different ornamental calligraphy
Names of the months for the 5782 Radical Jewish Calendar (2021)

digital collage of partisan and anticolonial women fighters, against a purple background, with a birch tree to the left and an olive tree to the right. text framed by a pomegranate and a cactus fruit says "we will outlive them" in yiddish, "our children will not die politely either" in english, and "the people stay on while tyrants' lives are short" in arabic
“Nisan: Partisan & Anticolonial Women Fighters (Our Children Will Not Die Politely Either)” for the 5778 Radical Jewish Calendar (2017) – the text reads “mir veln zey iberlebn” [we will outlive them] in yiddish and “baqiyat wa a’mar al-tughati qisaru” [the people stay on while tyrants’ lives are short] in arabic; the english is from audre lorde

banner reading "stonewall means fight back / freely flows the blood of those who moralize / there are nicer ways to do it but the nice ways always fail / now ask yourself who's screwing you" with the image of a bloody straight-razor
Sweeney Todd / Malvina Reynolds / Janelle Monae banner for Pride 2018

banner reading "abolition / police prisons ICE borders bosses / now / no conpromise, no quarter", "it's our time, breathe it in, worlds to change and worlds to win" alongside an hourglass, "trans justice is immigrant justice is sex workers justice"
Merrily We Roll Along banner for Pride 2018

a digital collage of early modern maps of cities and islands, linked by lines, along which walk part-dog, part-human figures, all over a palimpcest of text
Publicity graphic for “Bobe-Mayses: Yiddish Knights and Other Impossibilities” (2016)

a digital collage: black-and-white drawings of an ear, tall boots, a flintlock pistol, an eye, a cradle, an anvil, bees & honeycomb, architectual elements, a violin, and a bear, over a palimpcest of text and a map of europe showing yiddish dialect boundaries
Graphic for the “Voices of Ashkenaz” album by Andreas Schmitges and friends (2016)

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