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Join us for the second of three standalone talks (next session on Hebrew Calligraphy and Letter Arts Today: Tattoos, Type, and Graffiti, Feb. 26, 2026) on the calligraphy and mysticism of the Hebrew alphabet. No knowledge of Hebrew language required.

This Jewish Art Education program led by Prof. Joanna Homrighausen will look at the work of 20th-century Lithuanian-American Jewish artist Ben Shahn. His Hebrew letters call for social justice and evoke the folk nostalgia of Ashkenazi Jewish viewers. His letters, found in artist books and prints and on synagogue walls, celebrate the movement of hand on paper.

Joanna Homrighausen writes and teaches at the intersection of sacred text, lettering arts, and scribal crafts. Having earned her PhD in Religion (Hebrew Bible) at Duke University, she teaches Religious Studies at the College of William & Mary, where she has taught the biblical Hebrew sequence, the history of ancient Israel, and first-year writing seminars.