Zena Zipporah (b. 1942) is an American artist and poet.[1] She attended Case Western Reserve University.[2]
In 1989, her work was included in the Center for Book Arts 15th anniversary show.[3] In 2013 Zipporah was the recipient of a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Cuyahoga County Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.[4][5] In 2015, her work was included in the Ohio Craft Museums exhibition On the Page: The Book as Art.[6] Her mixed media assemblages were accepted for the May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art; in 1985 and 1993.[7]
Her book Recall of the Soul is in The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry.[8] Her book Breast tea is in the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA).[9]
Zipporah was married to Myron Kapalan, and together they helped host Junkyard, a poetry festival in the 1980s that was held at the Pearl Road Auto Wrecking and run by Daniel Thompson.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Visiting Artist - Visual Arts: Zena Zipporah". Arts Learning Artist Directory - Ohio Arts Council. Archived from the original on 20 September 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Interview with Zena Zipporah ('70)". Case Western Reserve University, Department of English. 6 October 2016. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Center for Book Arts: Celebrating 15 Years". Center for Book Arts. 1989. Archived from the original on 10 December 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ Rosenberg, Donald (12 December 2012). "Community Partnership for Arts and Culture awards fellowships and prizes to 22 Cuyahoga County artists". The Plain Dealer. Archived from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Zena Zipporah". Arts Clevland. 20 June 2013. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2024 – via Vimeo.
- ^ "Ohio Craft Museum show speaks to our relationship with books". The Columbus Dispatch. 24 July 2015. Archived from the original on 12 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Zipporah, Zena". Ingalls Library and Museum Archives. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Recall of the Soul / Zipporah, Zena., 1989". ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa (Archive record). Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Breast tea". National Museum of Women in the Arts Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (Library catalog record). OCLC 1260852968. Archived from the original on 13 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- ^ "Obituaries: Kaplan, Myron". Cleveland Jewish News. 30 October 2023. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2024.