Artist Talk with Asherah Cinnamon
Sun 15 Nov 2015, 6 pm
Nha San Collective’s new space
From Nha San Collective:
Muong Studio & Nha San Collective would like to invite you to attend a talk with artist Asherah Cinnamon on an occasion that she has attended Muong AIR residency program held in November 2015 at Muong Studio. Asherah will talk about her experiences in art field, as an individual of Jewish community, as well as about pressure on a female artist that are challenging her by the role in society.
Asherah worked for two decades as an educator, trainer, and community builder, promoting inter-group cooperation and collaboration. In 1992 she received the New England United Methodist Award for Social Justice Actions. She has incorporated this healing and community building work into her installation and performance art. Using her own cultural heritage and personal history as a starting point, she invites broad public interaction and involvement into her projects. Asherah’s creative practice explores the power of human interaction to build community, and reaches for two primary goals from her Jewish tradition: seek justice (tzedek) and heal the world (tikkun olam).
During the talk, Asherah Cinnamon will share her experiences and pressures as a female artist in the art world, where males are the majority. The role that society places on women impacts how women work. It brings unique difficulties, strengths, and challenges.
Asherah Cinnamon is a contemporary sculptor, installation, and performance artist, who makes her home in a forest in the northeastern United States. She has had a long love affair with trees, and uses her own cultural traditions as a platform from which to begin each new project. Her work incorporates decades of activism for the rights of women and minorities. She will show examples of her projects and discuss her process for creating spaces to connect people with each other and the earth. Her sculpture can be seen currently in group exhibitions in New York and London.
The talk will be conducted in English. Vietnamese listeners will be assisted by our interpreter.
Free entrance.
Communication partner: Hanoi Grapevine
Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advice, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focuses on.
If you are interested and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit
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