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Spruce Street) in Philadelphia on          Jasmine Schley (June 2005) sent an
Sunday, September 11, 2016, from 2-4       email informing us that she received her
PM. The show will run until October 31,    Bachelor of Science degree from
2016. Gross-Zuchman uses the               Temple University, where she majored
technique of collage, searching out        in Actuarial Science. While at Temple
interesting and surprising effects of      Jasmine’s academic experience was
color and shading with her brushes and     highlighted by participation in two
knives. With "New Growth," she builds      international programs. Since
on her attraction to painting trees using  graduating from Temple, she has been
unusual inter-plays of foreground and      employed by Lincoln Financial, where
background and painting knife              she is an actuary. While Jasmine
techniques. Deborah Gross-Zuchman          continues to grow professionally, she
graduated from Temple with a degree in     attributes much of her success to a
Art Education and later earned her M.A.    strong support system and a quality
in Painting from Goddard College. She      education. For this reason, she
taught art in the Philadelphia public      created “Classrooms to Careers”, a
schools for thirty-five years and then     career development program designed
served for almost a decade as Project      to provide information, experiences,
Manager for the Philadelphia Mural Arts    guidance and networks of support to
Program. Gross- Zuchman's book of          high school students interested in STEM
poems and paintings about war,             fields so that they can be empowered
Windows into War (A Mother’s               to realize their full potential.
Lament), was published by Abingdon
Square Publishers, NY in 2010. Seder       Ayo Keys (June 2012) has good news
for the 21st Century is a Passover         and great news to share. The good
Haggadah written with an emphasis on       news is that at GHS, she was an
social justice and freedom and             International Baccalaureate student and
illustrated with her collages (available   also a winner of the Elizabeth England
on request). Contacts for information:     Art Scholarship. She has just graduated
Perelman Center for Jewish Life,           from the Parsons New School of Art in
University of Pennsylvania,                New York with a major in fashion
215.222.3130                               design. The great news is that upon her
Emunah Wircberg, 484.431.3770              college graduation, Ayo has won one of
Zuchman Studios Tel: 215.729.5376          the highest student honors in the world
Email: martina@zuchmanstudios.com          of fashion design. Ayo and two other
                                           recent graduates have each been given,
                                           the LVMH Award given by the Louis
                                           Vuitton Foundation, maintained by a
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