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Elsa Wachs , a widely recognized artist, has had an accomplished career spanning diverse avenues of creative expressions. Her horizons continually grow, producing a broad range of artistic voices reflecting her passion for life -her experiences, the world around her and timely issues. All of this pours out of her in words and color onto her canvases and into her computer. Her early entrance into the digital world gave her another avenue to express her artwork adding to her expansive palette of mixed-media.
This artist began her career as an abstract painter in the 1960s after receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Temple University. She studied painting for several years with Samuel Feinstein of New York and Provincetown, a protegee of Hans Hoffman. |
In the late 1970s the Feminist Movement propelled Elsa to reinvent herself. Equipt with her talent for design and color, and her expertise with fabrics and fibers she started her own business, Elsa Wachs Studios, creating Judaic textiles for the international Jewish market: synagogues, institutions and individuals. Elsa pioneered the modern Judaic textile movement by being the first artist to exhibit her Judaic textiles in conferences and art expos throughout the United States. Her contemporary art style had a critical influence on traditional design which helped change the landscape of American Judaic ritual textiles.
Now, in this second decade of the 21st century, Elsa is dynamically continuing her life-long passion for making exciting and provocative artistic works.
Her art and words give a glimpse of her soul.
She says, “Yes, there is more to come!”
- This artist’s award-winning artwork is being used and shown in institutions and private collections internationally and has been taken into space on NASA’s Space Shuttle Mission Discovery.
- Her innovative artworks continue to be echoed by professional and folk artists worldwide.
- Much of her work is featured in numerous books, magazines and newspaper articles. Elsa has been a Judaic consultant/designer to the giftware industry such as Lenox China and Gorham Silver.
Now, in this second decade of the 21st century, Elsa is dynamically continuing her life-long passion for making exciting and provocative artistic works.
Her art and words give a glimpse of her soul.
She says, “Yes, there is more to come!”
