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B’nai B’rith announces art competition winners

Mazal tov to all who participated.

By AJN STAFF August 2, 2022, 11:53 am Edit
Yitz Faigenbaum, David Southwick, Chana Pesha Faigenbaum and her mother Talya Faigenbaum with the painting of her mother, ‘Regality’. Chana Pesha Faigenbaum was awarded the Morrie Gold Memorial Prize for Overall Winner.
Yitz Faigenbaum, David Southwick, Chana Pesha Faigenbaum and her mother Talya Faigenbaum with the painting of her mother, ‘Regality’. Chana Pesha Faigenbaum was awarded the Morrie Gold Memorial Prize for Overall Winner.

This year the 27th Annual Jewish Youth Art Competition displayed a total of 220 artworks, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, mixed media, and photography, filling the Gallery of the Glen Eira Town Hall. The quality of the artworks delivered surpassed even the judges’ expectations.

Glen Eira Mayor, Cr Jim Magee, officially opened the exhibition at a ceremony on Sunday, 24th July. A crowd of over 150 packed the Gallery. Other dignitaries included David Southwick MP and Dr Benny Monheit, President-elect of B’nai B’rith Australia and New Zealand.

The Art Competition received 66 entries from Leibler Yavneh, 40 from Beth Rivkah, 37 from Bialik, 34 from Mt Scopus, 25 from King David, and 13 from state and independent schools. For the second year in a row, Beth Rivkah student Chana Pesha Faigenbaum took the Morrie Gold Memorial Prize for the overall winner with her magnificent portrait of her mother.

This year saw the inclusion of a new initiative in memory of Yossi Skurnik. The Yossi Skurnik Art Initiative awarded the best landscape painting or drawing over three age categories. Yossi was an artist, musician, and poet, perhaps a visionary, with ideas and concepts beyond his time.

B’nai B’rith would like to extend a huge mazal tov to all the winners. Be prepared to be blown away if you haven’t seen the exhibition. The exhibition is open to the public from 10:00 am till 5:00 pm on weekdays and 1:00 till 5:00 on weekends, and it runs until Sunday 7th August.

The prize winners

Morrie Gold Memorial Prize for overall winner in 2022

Chana Pesha Faigenbaum

Sculpture (11 – 13 years)

  1. Rafael Shaw
  2. Noa Bracha
  3. Lilly Pratt

Sculpture (14 – 18 years)

  1. Jesse Onas
  2. Ava Klass
  3. Shira Sztrochlic

Mixed Media (11 – 13 years)

  1. Noa Gomberg
  2. Daniel Cohen
  3. Hayley Epstein

Mixed Media (14 – 18 years)

  1. Devorah Landau
  2. Sianna Levin
  3. Jordanna Marks

Painting and Drawing (11 – 13 years)

  1. Rachel Feldman
  2. Leah Spivak
  3. Rafael Shaw

Painting and Drawing (14 – 15 years)

  1. Emily Nudel
  2. Zev Gordon
  3. Daniel Menashe

Painting and Drawing (16 – 18 years)

  1. Chana Pesha Faigenbaum
  2. Mia Penso
  3. Erin Padowitz

Peter Krafel Memorial Prize for Photography (16 – 18 years)

  1. Juliette Majman
  2. Richard Osadchiy
  3. Molly Becker

Jeffrey Wiener Memorial Prize for Portraiture / Caricature

  1. Isabella Cohen
  2. Rachel Feldman
  3. Amelie Cher

Yossi Skurnik Landscape Prize

  • Years 11 – 13: Leah Amzalak
  • Years 14 – 15: Shoshana Krigsman
  • Years 16 – 18: Michal Etzion

Thalia Hakin Prize (Years 11 – 13)

Tamar Gold

Jewish Theme Prize

Esti Schachter

Raymond and Leah Black Prize

Isaac Cohen

Judges Special Commendation

  • Asher Szkolnik
  • Avraham Vorchheimer
  • Dahlia Cohen
  • Ella Etzion
  • Esti Schachter
  • Ethan Shnaider
  • Georgia Raymond
  • Georgia Troski
  • Grace Mcmahon
  • Miley Siegel
  • Millie Rosenberg
  • Phoebe Lambert
  • Shoshana Krigsman
  • Sterna Raskin
  • Talie Zaks
  • Zali Rose Weinberg
  • Zoe Zilberman

 

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