{"id":17217,"date":"2017-07-17T18:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:59:18","slug":"jane-breskin-zalben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/jane-breskin-zalben\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Breskin Zalben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1995 I was invited to speak at schools in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe on writing and illustrating books, which continued over the years. \u00a0For the first time in my life, I visited old mosques in Cairo, Fez, Rabat, Addis Ababa, Instanbul, Spain, and shambled vistiges of old synagogues in the same places where congregations no longer exist. \u00a0Out of those journeys, and after September 11, I began adding peace books to my list of 50 published boks. \u00a0I started experimenting on canvas since I no longer could work in the excruciatingly detailed way I had been painting for years- with a triple-zero brush on parchment. \u00a0It was a &#8216;coming home&#8217; for me returning to abstract art. \u00a0Combining my graphic arts career and my fine art. \u00a0The creative challenge was not knowing where it would take me, which is what the peace books were about: That if you leave yourself open to the unknown, maybe you can find different paths- toward joy, happiness, and contentment in a very complex world. \u00a0Seeing the larger world changed my life.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/janebreskinzalben.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">janebreskinzalben.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured in &#8220;Namaste&#8221; 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1995 I was invited to speak at schools in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe on writing and illustrating books, which continued over the years. \u00a0For the first time in my life, I visited old mosques in Cairo, Fez, Rabat, Addis Ababa, Instanbul, Spain, and shambled vistiges of old synagogues in the same<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/jane-breskin-zalben\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17219,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17217\/revisions\/17219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}