Shirah Apple
Shirah Apple creates visual midrash-commentary-and opportunities that reflect the American Jewish experience. She transforms materials with a sensibility of the work of the hand into beautiful, intimate, and interactive objects which celebrate rites of passage and the gift of living every day. Ms. Apple received an MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006. She is a graduate of MICA’s Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program and of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where she received a B.S. in Business Administration.
An artist with a strong community focus, Ms. Apple has been the Teen Programs Coordinator at the Milwaukee Art Museum and has conducted more than 30 creative collaborations at the Franciscan youth Center in Baltimore, the Jewish Museum of Maryland, and community institutions in Milwaukee and Baltimore. She worked with Jewish and Arab children at a summer camp in Israel, and with the Camp Swig Institute for Living Judaism in California. Her community-building approach has been strongly influenced by workshops with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and New York’s Theater of the Oppressed. She also worked with the 2007 Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
An artist with a strong community focus, Ms. Apple has been the Teen Programs Coordinator at the Milwaukee Art Museum and has conducted more than 30 creative collaborations at the Franciscan youth Center in Baltimore, the Jewish Museum of Maryland, and community institutions in Milwaukee and Baltimore. She worked with Jewish and Arab children at a summer camp in Israel, and with the Camp Swig Institute for Living Judaism in California. Her community-building approach has been strongly influenced by workshops with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and New York’s Theater of the Oppressed. She also worked with the 2007 Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.