Projects
Here you can find my upcoming, ongoing, and completed art projects. My art is a tool toward activism, connection, and community. Art tells a story and builds relationality. My artwork has been featured in zines, the Radical Jewish Calendar 5784, and my own colouring book, Safer Use Sketches. I have received training in creating large-scale public art and in using art towards community organizing.
Please click through to any of the linked pages where you may be able to learn more about the project, purchase a deliverable, or connect with works in-progress.
The National Portrait Collection
The ArQuives
February 2025
The ArQuives hired me to support the creation of downloadable mini-exhibitions to better resource classrooms to teach LGBTQ+ Canadian history. I drew illustrations and led the layout of three e-exhibitions, all available for free in both English and French. This image is from the National Portrait Collection exhibit.
The Button Collection
February 2025
The ArQuives button collection includes over 2000 LGBTQ2+ buttons dating from the 1960s to the 2010s. This mini-exhibition comprises thirty buttons from The ArQuives’ collection on education, LGBTQ2+ community-building, and protest.
Student & Youth LGBTQ2+ Activism
February 2025
This mini-exhibition documents nearly fifty years of student and youth activism in Canada through documents, photographs, posters, and buttons. Almost every item included here was made by or with direct involvement from queer and trans people aged 29 or younger.
H.A.M.S.A Hanukia
The Café at the J
December 2024
Inspired by mosaic tiling in the floors of synagogues throughout the Middle East and North Africa, this window mural depicts a hanukia, the candelabra lit over the holiday of Hanuka. The mural spans 6.5 feet tall and 5.5 feet wide. Designed online and then created using static-cling window film, each tile was cut to size and applied by hand to the windows. The mural is on display at the MNjcc, bringing the light of this festival to the downtown Toronto area.
Commissioned Shabbatonim Graphic
Keshet
September 2024
Keshet, a USA-based organization focused on improving LGBTQ+ equality in Jewish life, commissioned this graphic to advertise their Shabbatonim. A Shabbaton is an extended weekend retreat of education and celebration, held over Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. Keshet's retreats are specifically for LGBTQ+ Jewish teens in grades 7-12, offering a unique and affirming chance to connect with other Queer Jewish young people. The graphic combines Jewish and queer iconography in an engaging and approachable image.
Hinenu: We Are Here
The Gallery at the J
June 2024
The Hebrew word "hinenu" means "we are here". This installation, created by LGBTQ+ at the J and Machane Lev, explores what Queer and Trans Jewish visibility looks like in a summer camp setting. Riffing off the common graffiti tagline "_ was here", we intentionally created space to write, scribble, collage, leave handprints, doodle, and claim a space as our own. Queer and Trans Jews have always been here, and will always be here. By supporting our community’s visibility, we are drawing attention to the power and necessity of queer Jewish playfulness, friendship, and care.
Hand Drawn Market Sign
Disability Artisan Market
August 2023
Emunah hand drew this sign for the Summer 2023 Disability Artisan Market, run by the Wagner-Green Centre for Access & Inclusion and The Disability Collective. This event featured art created solely by disabled artists, allowing them to showcase and sell their work in a fun and community-driven environment. Signage can be immensely powerful at signifying belonging and community, drawing in the people who the space is designed for. Emunah considers sign-making a form of community building and infusing care into each and every space.
Dream Jewish Disability Justice
The Radical Jewish Calendar 5784
Adar I
The Radical Jewish Calendar is organized by Jewish month, layering Jewish and Gregorian dates, astrological happenings, holidays, and political history. 12 months of political art, culture, and history made by dreamers, artists, and organizers who want to know what time it is. The 5784 edition includes this piece of my artwork for the month of Adar 1.
Safer Use Sketches
YWCA Hamilton's SUS
August 2022
This coloring book is a collection of 10 hand-drawn harm reduction-themed coloring pages. I drew all of the images freehand during overnight shifts at a supervised injection site while supporting clients. 40% of the proceeds go towards @unshelteredthezine , a community art project sharing the stories of folks experiencing gender-based homelessness living outside of Hamilton's shelter system.
Campy Collective Camping
8 Gays of Chanukkah Installation
December 2023
8 Gays of Chanukkah is an annual Queer Jewish variety show in Toronto, Ontario, hosted by Gila Münster. Emunah coordinated an interactive art installation for the 2023 show entitled Campy Campgrounds, exploring the themes of communal pause, camp (the summer activity), camp (the queer concept of excess), and Chanukah. Attendees were asked to dream their campiest, over-the-top, Chanukah-themed tent to add to the growing artpiece throughout the evening.
Late Night Thoughts After a Covid-Dangerous Convocation
Dis/orientation
June 2022
Disabled students have made vital contributions to education at McMaster University, resulting in greater accessibility and disability inclusion in the classroom, curricula, and on campus. This Zine brings together the perspectives of 20+ current and former McMaster students with disabilities with an aim to further document and share our experiences and hopes for the future.
ransom note musings from med file cutouts
Psych Survivor Zine
July 2023
Centered around the theme of transforming our medical records, this 55 page zine showcases art and writing from 13 different psych survivors. Including detailed collages, poetry, harm reduction toolkits, and more, this first volume celebrates a wide variety of talent from our community.
mad fun is knowledge, mad knowledge is fun
Outliers Zine
October 2022
Experiences of being an “outlier” in post-secondary education come alive in this 72-page zine through collage, drawing, painting, photography, poetry, song, and stories by over 25 Mad, neurodivergent, and disabled students and alumni from Canada, the US, and Belgium. They call on post-secondary institutions and instructors to listen by enhancing accessibility, Mad Positivity, and respect for neurodiversity in teaching and learning.