JLive is our series of virtual cultural experiences. Meet some of the best Boston area talent, telling their Jewish story through art.

Leslie Starobin is a Boston-based photographer, montage artist, and art educator teaching photography and photojournalism at Framingham State University. Leslie is the recipient of many grants, receiving the support of Framingham Cultural Council, a subsidiary of the Massachusetts Cultural Council to create her project, “Looming in the Shadows of Łódź”.  She has exhibited throughout the United States and her art is on display in the permanent collections of various academic museums, including  the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California at Berkeley, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, and the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton . 

Watch Leslie‘s JLive from Friday, February 18, 2022