Exhibited Art

ART EXHIBITED 

Creative Soul’s 4th Annual Celebration of Creativity  
October 12 - November 2, 2014   The Creative Soul Gallery, NY 

Pomegranates / Rimonim

© Joy Krauthammer 

Creative Soul’s 4th Annual Celebration of Creativity   

October 12 - November 2, 2014   The Creative Soul Gallery, NY

Especially happy to be in the Creative Soul Gallery during the High Holidays
because this is Z'man Simchateinu, Season of our JOY.
Every year I love to photograph pomegranates/rimonim.
I was thrilled to discover the full pomegranate hanging with a Magen Dovid from the tree.

My art has been exhibited with Creative Soul, and I was a Featured Artist Interview last year.

http://thecreativesoul.org/news/featured-artist-joy-krauthammer 

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ART EXHIBITED 

Exciting for me to see my Breed Street Shul and nature photos (1980's) in exhibition
 ("Ethics of Our Fathers and Mothers") of 
Rare Books from Breed Street Shul at American Jewish University. 

While I was present, librarian Jackie Ben Efraim toured a synagogue through the secured private Rabbi Neches collection and Pirkei Avot v'Imahot exhibit. 

Directly behind framed Breed Street Shul photo in glassed room are OLD bibles from 1500's! 

© Joy Krauthammer 

(Photo was from my darkroom days.) 

See Breed Street Shul story:

http://joys-prose.blogspot.com/2014/08/breed-street-shul.html

Runs concurrently with Treasuring Treasure in the Platt/Borstein Galleries. 2014

Pirkei Avot Rare Books 

American Jewish University

© Joy Krauthammer 

Pirkei Avot Rare Books 

American Jewish University

© Joy Krauthammer 

http://visions-of-joy.blogspot.com/2013/03/exhibited-art.html

More Published Art

More Published Art

Faye's Phalaenopsis
I'm thrilled my sister's orchid is used on my photo card.

Orchid photo used for congregation donation acknowledgement card

Ahavat Torah Donation Card

© Joy Krauthammer

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Feels good to be a Creative Soul Featured Artist Interview:

http://thecreativesoul.org/news/featured-artist-joy-krauthammer

Happy that American Guild of Judaic Art shares my Featured Artist link

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Japanese Cherry Trees

Lake Balboa © Joy Krauthammer 

Photos and Poem Published by City of Los Angeles

full poem:  http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2012/02/blossoming-cherry-trees.html

... and more...

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Santa Susanna State Historical Park published Joy's photos of Jan. 1, 2014 public hike.
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Photos from Dancing With My Soul retreat 1.23-25.2015
published in LEV EISHA newsletter Feb. 2015:

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Poem and Photo added to LEV EISHA newsletter:

© Joy Krauthammer

Published in Lev Eisha news, Jan. 2014

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FUN to have your photos published in organizations' new web sites

taken by you, and you in them.
These are the cover photos for main and additional sections
and a colored filter reduces brightness of images:

Joy's Timbrels, cover photo

published in Lev Eisha new website, Feb. 2014

© Joy Krauthammer

Joy's talleisim collage cover photo

published ongoing in Lev Eisha new website, March 2014

 Says, "A Place for Spritual Growth."

© Joy Krauthammer

"Weave sacred vestments out of glory and splendor."

- Exodus 28:2

Original collage before purple filter is added:

Talleisim cover photo.

Created photo collage this week from friends' talleisim. 

Some friends made their own.  Ahh, lots of purple! 

Happy that collage is now the cover photo for a shul's website.

© Joy Krauthammer

Lev Eisha Dancing With My Soul retreat

Joyous Nature Photo Walk  2015

© Joy Krauthammer 

Lev Eisha Dancing With My Soul Retreat Closing Circle

© Joy Krauthammer  2015

Lev Eisha Retreat Closing Circle

© Joy Krauthammer  2013

Lev Eisha Retreat Closing Circle

© Joy Krauthammer

Joy, Sarah, Robin, Sharon

Lev Eisha at Wagner Women Weekend

my camera 2013

Lev Eisha Dancing With My Soul retreat

Joyous Nature Photo Walk  2015

Joy's timbrel leading women in dance Aviva's bridal shower

Aviva, Joy, Karen R, Karen W, Hare

 cover photo published in Lev Eisha new website, Feb. 2014

© Aaron Kirsch

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Happy that my photos taken of Lev Eisha women at Wagner Women retreat 

are included in Lev Eisha April 2014 newsletter.

A joyous community of Jewish women engaged in prayer, study and spiritual growth   Newsletter/April 2014 Wagner Women Celebrate Purim 2014 The weekend of March 14th found an enthusiastic group of women enjoying each other's friendship, sharing Shabbat, celebrating Purim, and marveling at the beauty of nature at Brandeis-Bardin in Simi Valley. For over 30 years women from all over California and beyond have come together for this special weekend.  LEPREKAUFMANs Carol Kaufman and daughter Gabrielle Levanthal. The Queen Rabbi August always does an amazing job as our spiritual leader and teacher. Cindy, Joy, and Robin brought their usual vitality and ruach to the weekend. There was an opportunity to join in the singing, dancing, hiking, and workshops. There was also time to relax with friends - both old and new, to read, or to enjoy exploring the property and commune with nature. Saturday night, after Havdalah, several of our women, under Cindy's guidance, performed a Purim Shpiel based on "Westside Story" called "Middle Eastside Story". The songs, costumes, and adapted story had us laughing and cheering all evening! Congrats to all participants - you were "maahvelous"! Marion Klein Robin Winston and mom Myrna Kayton Lynn Beliak and mom Edith Ballonoff Marion Klein, Louise Feinberg, and Annie Cindy singing Pete Seeger songs with Cindy Paley and Robin Winston Closing Ceremony Participants brought their beautiful talleisim,  which Joy so artfully arranged  in this photo collage Thank you to Joy Krauthammer for her beautiful photographs.

Reduced size screen shots:

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LEV EISHA annual retreat  2018
photo collages  © Joy Krauthammer

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CAFFEINATED PHOTOGRAPHERS

Facebook group

April 2014

~ ~ ~ Lev Eisha Newsletter October 2014 Creative Soul Gallery EXHIBITED See other post.

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TED TALKS, Ben Gurion University, Israel,
photo of me "in action as photographer" (© Stephanie Smith)
used by Yosef Adest to illustrate 52 Frames.

Screen Shot of Ted Talk

Yosef Adest, 52 Frames CEO, May 2014

Joy Krauthammer on Apple store floor shooting "Furniture" 

for 52 Frames weekly theme challenge.

Screen shot from Ted Talk Live Stream

© Stephanie Smith  

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Hamsa Copper Pendant

Joy Loves Being Jewish

Hamsa, metal etching on copper pendant

with design and textures by Joy 2012

taught by Ruth Shapiro with pre-cut hamsa

& Ruth curled wires

 © Joy Krauthammer

I loved making the Hamsa pendant after I was initially frustrated working with difficult tools.

Process then became meditative working with the acid.

When I was young, I loved doing copper hammering and then cloisonne' on copper.

CERT

My CERT Certificate of Completion
Community Emergency Response Team

It is a vision of joy that I feel, proud that today I have completed the 7 week course (17.5 hours) in Community Emergency Response Team training and received the CERT Certificate of Completion from The City of Los Angeles.

I feel more responsible toward community in a very practical crucial manner, in case of emergency preparedness, which includes natural disasters, accidents and terrorism.

Watching the weekly videos of destruction, and people maimed or dead from catastrophies, etc. was not easy. (I don't watch TV because of the violence.) Saving the worst for last, today's show was on Weapons of Mass Destruction, HAZMAT (Hazardous Material) Teams, chemical terrorism, and decontamination. I've learned to put out small fires, do light search and rescue, in multi-casualty incidents, do Triage--evaluate and label who is dead or alive, try to keep people alive in disaster medical operations, and splint body limbs, until professional 'responders' may be available. I learned team organization and disaster psychology. (As a former medical social worker, I never learned any of this.) As a former victim of the '94 Northridge Earthquake, I recognize how important this training is.)

I learned that in these major disasters that are happening all over the country, world, and local area, streets will not be accessible to trained personnel. Numbers of those in need will be too great to handle for city police, fire and and medical. Citizens must be well-trained for a work force. It is very sobering to know that I have graduated as a simple civilian volunteer and may have to lead a team of others in caring for the wounded, and saving lives. Graduation gift from GHNNC was a backpack filled with CERT helmet, vest and other necessary supplies. I've been buying and adding supplies.

My teacher, Firefighter Kevin Mason, was fantastic and the funniest person I've ever heard (which made learning tough stuff a lot easier). He called his humor, "gallows humor." Thank you, Kevin and GH Neighborhood Council, Public Safety coordinator Bill Hopkins.  cert@ghnnc.org  Thirty-five CERT volunteers graduated.

Please call your local council people to encourage them to offer CERT and join the team.

Additional sessions are offered.

Contact CERT:  www.CERT-LA.COM    LAFDCERT@LACITY.ORG

- Joy Krauthammer

PS
On a lighter note, while waiting for the photo that was taken on graduation day, here is me:

(  :)

sideways
in my new
green firelady CERT helmet-hard hat

(doesn't come in purple)

smiling --before I have seen blood and gore, broken bones, accident, disaster, emergency, catastrophe and chemical warfare and fire and terrorism... (May it never happen!!)

(Do I sound like Arlo Guthrie's 27 minute song, Alice's Restaurant?  "You can get everything you want, at ___")

Official CERT graduation portrait

Joy Krauthammer and firefighter Kevin Mason

© Edward Headington

CPR

CERT event story:

http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2012/06/birthday-joy.html

Still Training

From FACEBOOK 6.27.2015 :

CERT Refresher

Joy in Green Vest, Helmut, googles, mask and with gloves and Gatorade.

End of a long hard, smoky CERT day. 

6.27.2015

LAFD VALLEY CERT REFRESHER: Incident Command System Fire Suppression Medical Operations (triage, Treatment, Transport) Search and Rescue

Since LAFD VALLEY CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) RETRAINING day, I have greater appreciation for our Fire Fighters. OY, how do they do it? Exhausting, and Search & Rescue was scary going into a smoky building (with helmet, mask, goggles and gloves) where I could NOT see the ‘victims'. Even the flashlight wasn’t strong enough to immediately see the victims 'dead or alive'. Fire extinguisher for Fire Suppression was heavy but finally I did a good job putting out fires. Hope YOU all know HOW to use those red house extinguishers.

(Forty years ago, called 911, and with adrenaline running, I used heavy huge hose equipment to put out a couch fire in an ap’t below mine.)

During Incident Command System actions, it was challenging in Medical Operations with Triage. Glad I didn’t have to treat people. As scribe, just kept track of 'non-critical' injuries in my division. The Medical Transport helicopter blew up a lot of dusty dirt in our LA drought and went right through my face gear into eyes. Now OK. I need to get better at all of this Disaster business with Fire Department.

In a large-scale disaster, government resources may be overwhelmed and unable to immediately assist citizens in their community. Emergency response personnel may be delayed for hours, even days. Preparing the community is vital in preparedness and resiliency.

Friends, I invite you to train and join volunteer CERT. Surely assists in preparing us in personal and civic duty for responsibility in disaster. I’ve had training but don’t know of any other neighbors who have. As lead person in my Neighborhood Watch, I send out invites… Sure would like a local partner.

For further information, you may contact the CERT Unit at (213) 893-9840.

http://www.cert-la.com

(Official green is clothing code, NO purple.)

June 27, 2015

ORIGINAL POST: http://visions-of-joy.blogspot.com/2011/11/cert.html

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Community Emergency Response Team with LA Fire Department. Yup, that's me the volunteer in the green vest and helmet. When I wear the thick mask and it is difficult to breathe, to survive I visualize I am snorkeling. Heavy are gloves, helmet, goggles, flashlight and backpack... Missing the heavy steel-toed boots.
Lorraine was my buddy, and I was in team with Battalion coordinator Linda, and Amy. 

Several years ago my very dear older friend Lilian,z"l, (since about 1960 until she died last year) who was active until 90 years in civic duties, told me how important/necessary it was to be involved in "civic" duties. I listened. I do this service in her memory. Always also communicating with Councilman's office. NOT easy being a 'voice of consciousness' in political world. Yup, making a difference in my secular community. Deal with safety, drug cars on my street (and police), paved streets, neighbor brawls, dead trees, etc. etc. Never thought I'd have a pal in the police, surely not after the 60's. That's all a lot easier than this disaster CERT stuff.

I like drumming and photography and studying Torah much better!!! :)

Yup, making a difference in my secular community. Deal with safety, drug cars on my street (and police), paved streets, neighbor brawls, dead trees, etc. etc. Never thought I'd have a pal in the police, surely not after the 60's. That's all a lot easier than this disaster CERT stuff.

I proof, edit the police mail Tips before forwarding looking good to dozens on my Neighborhood Watch list. I like drumming and photography and studying Torah much better!!! :)

In addition, a specific reason I chose to be a CERT volunteer, is because I was in real great shock (PTSD) following the '94 LOCAL disaster and I needed to be better able to deal with a future one. So I've grabbed my fear and face it with hopefully being better able to help others.

Took this CPR class for CERT. 
The dozens of times my husband, z"l, taught this course to medical personnel, I never showed up, and then threw out his CPR books. I actually first first took this training around 1975, about 4 decades ago.)

LAFD VALLEY CERT REFRESHER: Incident Command System Fire Suppression Medical Operations (Triage, Treatment, Transport) Search and Rescue

Photo Gallery

Taking shots only after long hard day of work is done.

Medical Transport Helicopter takes off. 

© Joy Krauthammer 

Medical Transport Helicopter takes off. 

© Joy Krauthammer 

Medical Stretchers

© Joy Krauthammer 

Wounds for Triage

© Joy Krauthammer 

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