Tirtzah is an experienced educator, master facilitator, and non-profit executive, Bassel has held leadership positions most recently as Vice President of Partnerships and Jewish Learning at OneTable, and previously as Program Director at Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah, and Assistant Director at Brandeis Institute of Music and Art at Brandeis University. She creates collaborative group processes in pluralistic settings, leads arts workshops, and professional development trainings.
Tirtzah teaches in the Visual and Critical Studies Department at School of Visual Arts in New York and is a resident artist in the Chashama Workspace Program in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. She is a Created Equal National Educators Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Tirtzah holds an MFA from Boston University. Her drawings, paintings, and site-specific duct tape installations engage with political and social realities and have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
