Berit Engen: "WEFT and D'RASH – A Thousand Jewish Tapestries" (2007-present)
 
 




Presenting about the commission of ten tapestries, permanently installed at Temple Har Zion in River Forest, IL.
 (Chicago Architecture Center's annual fall event, "Open House Chicago," in 2022.)


 
        Below is a list of seventeen suggested topics for presentations in synagogues and other religious institutions, libraries, schools, social, and care
        institutions
, etc. 
        Click on any topic to see the respective flier.
        You can read about me as a presenter in the first flier, "GENERAL INFORMATION." 
 
 
           #0: GENERAL INFORMATION 

           #1: MY FLAXEN TANAKH MAP
                 The Scriptures Color-Coded

           #2: THE SIBLINGS IN GENESIS
                 Love, Rivalry, and Murder
 
           #3:
 THE STORY OF JOSEPH
                 A Seemingly Endless Shalshelet

           #4: THE FIVE M'GILLOT 
                 Slim Books, Wide Scopes

           #5: INSPIRED BY THE BOOK OF RUTH 
                 The Beauty of Biblical Minimalism

           #6: SONG OF THE SEA 
                 And a Man with a Plan 

           #7: OUR SACRED SCROLLS 
                 Shalom, Good Lookin’! 

           #8: OUR PRAYERBOOK 
                 The Rock We Fashioned

           #9: U'NTANEH TOKEF 
                 Prayer Without Gray 

          #10: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODIM 
                  A Liturgical Chant from Trondheim and Skokie

          #11: HOLY DAYS 
                  Not Just Holidays

          #12: THE WHIMSICAL HAGGADAH 
                  A Colorful Prayerbook 

          #13: THE SHOAH 
                  Songs in the Face of Death

          #14: LOST BUT FOUND 
                  From Dark to Shrine: Three Stories

          #15: MOUNT SINAI ON ROUTE 43 
                  A Commission by Temple Har Zion

          #16: YIDDISHE OUTPOURINGS 
                  Murmured and Moaned, Wailed and Whined, Voiced with Joy

          #17: TRANSLATED INTO TAPESTRIES 
                  The Challenge in Blue of Living Between Two Languages

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