Lectures & Engagement
What do we do with what we cannot carry alone?
Lectures, artist talks and workshops with sculptor and educator Dan Reisner—opening a conversation between inner experience, artistic creation and the world we share.
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The practice behind the conversation
From Strait to Create begins with a simple possibility: what feels difficult to hold within us can become something we can see, encounter and work with.
Developed through Dan’s own response to post-traumatic experience, this approach has shaped his sculpture and teaching since 2000. The talks follow that process from the first private gesture to a work that invites others into a conversation.
Through sculptures, images and stories from the studio, Dan explores how creativity can open new perspectives on vulnerability, memory and change.
Themes for a shared conversation
How does a feeling become a figure? Enter the studio through Idols of the Sun, an ongoing sculptural journal, to explore intuition, material, experimentation and the search for a personal language.
Enquire about this themeThe personal story at the heart of From Strait to Create: giving form to anxiety and unresolved experience, and discovering how the creative process can make room for movement, reflection and dialogue.
Enquire about this themeFrom a child’s drawing in Terezín to Jiří’s Flower, and from rescue to remembrance in The Murmur of the Seas: how can sculpture preserve an individual story within collective history and allow it to speak in the present?
Enquire about this themeHow does a private vision enter public life? Through works including The Walk, inspired by Brâncuși, Encounter and Floyd, Dan considers scale, place, responsibility and the encounters a sculpture makes possible.
Enquire about this themeA participatory extension of the practice, bringing looking, making and discussion together. Each engagement is shaped in conversation with the host, with space for the group’s questions and experiences.
Enquire about this theme“When we look inward, we discover new ways of looking outward. By giving form to what remains unresolved within us, we can bring it into the world—not only as an object, but as a source of new perspectives and inspiration.”
Dan Reisner
For Institutions & Communities
For museums and galleries; universities and art schools; Holocaust education centres and memorial institutions; cultural and community organisations; and groups exploring trauma, recovery and creative expression.
Engagements can take the form of an illustrated lecture, an artist conversation, a workshop or a programme developed together. In-person and online enquiries are welcome.
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“Dan’s remarkable expertise—combined with his exceptional public speaking skills and kind charisma—made the evening truly unforgettable.”
American Friends of ELEM
Dan Reisner is a sculptor and educator based in Tel Aviv–Jaffa, a former Head of Sculpture at Kalisher School of Art, and a teacher at institutions including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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