Asherah Cinnamon is a contemporary sculptor who uses personal history to inform her art. She is guided by a lifelong interest in how people can heal from enormous tragedy and personal hurts. Her parents were saved from the Nazi Holocaust in Europe, along with 20,000 other Jews, by the ease of Shanghai’s open immigration policies at the time. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, her parents were held in the “Jewish Ghetto” for the duration of the occupation of Eastern China by the Japanese military. Asherah was born in Shanghai at the end of World War II. She and her family immigrated to the United States when she was very young. She has also lived in Panama, England, Alabama, New York, Boston, and Tennessee. Her travels and early experiences have deeply touched her life and her art. Her sculpture is influenced by abstract expressionism, by Jewish tradition and art, and by liberation movements since the 1960’s: the civil rights movement, the feminist “Second Wave” and more recent movements to give equal rights and protections to all oppressed groups.
As a social change activist, she has organized communities to end discrimination, and taught a wide variety of groups in the public and private sector to resolve conflicts and communicate cross culturally. Her work has taken her all over the United States, and lately, back to China. She enjoys working with communities, organizations, and groups to express their vision, goals, and culture through visual art.
In recent years she has focused fully on sculpture and public art, studying at the Maine College of Art, and gaining recognition for her work locally and internationally. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin (B.A), and Boston University (M.S.W.), she has made her home in Maine for 30 years.
Asherah Cinnamon
25 Ledge Road
South Portland, Maine 04106, USA
001 207 712-4323
email: acinnamon@gwi.net
website: www.AsherahCinnamon.com
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