Asherah Cinnamon’s work is conceptually based in 6,000 years of Jewish cultural ethics, including: ‘Welcome the Stranger’, ‘Heal the World’ (Tikkun Olam) and “Care for the Land’ (Schmita).

Born in Shanghai, the immigrant daughter of European Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, and of the Shanghai Ghetto, Cinnamon lost family to genocide and unthinkable violence. In 1982 she finally found home, along a river in Maine, on land that had been stolen from the Wabanaki People through another historic and ongoing genocide.

With degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Cambridge University, and Boston University, Cinnamon received her BFA from the Maine College of Art in midlife, after successful careers in Clinical Social Work and as an Educator and Organizer in the field of Conflict Resolution and Community Building for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

Her artwork has been shown on public lands, and in solo and group shows on campuses, museums, and galleries from Vietnam to Europe, England, and Australia, and in the US from New York to California. She has been the recipient of major awards and grants for both her Social Activism and her Art, including recognition from the US Holocaust Museum for Organizing Community response to the Burning of an African American Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a “Five Rings” Award for Landscape Sculpture Design at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

email: acinnamonartist@gmail.com
website: www.AsherahCinnamon.com

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