Rochelle Newman-Carrasco
Ellen Weinstein’s new children’s book captures life on the Lower East Side across languages, traditions, and generations.
Ellen Weinstein’s new children’s book captures life on the Lower East Side across languages, traditions, and generations.
My work is about shattering the preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman, what it means to be Jewish, what it means to be queer.
It’s been kind of mind-bending—the idea of something that’s free, the idea of citizens taking charge of abandoned, empty, vandalized space and turning it into public good, the ability to find purpose and possibility in an empty space.