Full Disclosure: The Art of Revealing  

Making Your Mark! 

A unique hands-on studio workshop 

This project celebrates the Temple’s longstanding commitment to social activism, incorporating a collective expression of women’s voices.  

This studio workshop celebrates the Temple’s longstanding commitment to social activism, incorporating a collective expression of women’s voices. The collective artwork resulting from these workshops will be exhibited as part of a community exhibition at the MJCCA.  

What will we be doing? 

You will be contributing to a large visual installation celebrating the range and breadth of The Temple’s commitment to social activism and social justice.  The artwork will explore the challenges and complexities of tikkun olam in our world today through the use of words and phrases that speak with intention and insight. You will have the opportunity to gather, interact, and to put your personal stamp on the collective Temple artwork. 

We will be working primarily with language—words, phrases, questions, the power of messaging and the potency of words, to be written on fragments of canvas during the workshop. 

All materials will be provided—markers, paints, stencils, etc. 

How Should I Prepare for the Studio Work? 

Words are a powerful tool, “mightier than the sword,” we are warned. We have learned words can become weapons; they can hurt and damage community. They can soothe or distress, alert or obscure. Their power and placement can provoke the viewer, engage and complicate or reinforce and reinspire.  Words matter.  

To prepare for the workshop, we ask that you spend about 15 minutes responding to these prompts: 

• Of the many Rothschild Social Justice Initiative groups at The Temple, with which are you most involved? 

Thinking specifically of your involvement and what you have seen, learned, been heartened by or frustrated with, please jot down answers  to the following questions: 

• What is your personal involvement with the specific group you are part of?  
• How did you get involved and why do you stay involved?? 
• How does your participation make you FEEL? 
• What do you REFLECT ON before, during and after you meet and engage with the group? 
• How has your involvement affected you? 
• Is there a specialized vocabulary that your social justice group uses? What are some of the code words? 
• Is there a color, font, or logo that you associate with your involvement? 

Bring your notes with you to the workshop. They will aid and inspire the next step of the process: identification and isolation of words and phrases, questions, fears and hopes. 

If you have time, look at these websites below before the workshop. They are all examples of the artistic use of text art to speak directly to the viewer:   

Text artist Barbara Kruger chooses to use art as a goad, forcing response to simply expressed challenges.  

Eight artists on My Modern Met.  

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us. 

Looking forward to being together and MAKING OUR WORDS MATTER!