DESCRIPTION: After crossing the Red sea, Miriam and the woman raised their tambourines in joyous song of thanksgiving for their miraculous freedom and in anticipation of future miracles.

This lithograph is done in beautiful multiple pastel colors which Muchnik has skillfuly combined to create this artwork that pays tribute to Jewish women everywhere.

DETAILS: Pictured in the tambourine is Muchnik's interpretation of Israel with hills, and palm trees. In the distance is the Bais Hamikdash Holy Temple that Muchnik uses to signify the coming of the Messiah. To the right is a Jug with vapors billowing out of. To the left is a well signifying the well which traveled with the Jews when they wandered in the Desert until the passing of Miriam. The Bible refers to this well as the Well of Miriam.

ARTIST INFORMATION: Today's renaissance of the traditional Jewish lifestyle has been accompanied by the blossoming of a multi-faceted Chasidic art movement. Michoel Muchnik, among the foremost Chassidic artists, has gained prominence with his joyfully imaginative renderings in acrylics, watercolors, and original lithographs. He frequently combines his delicate use of color and fine line work into a story book motif. Even at its most mystical, a Muchnik painting is inexplicably familiar.

Born in Philadelphia in 1952, Muchnik received his artistic training at Rhode Island School of Design. He later studied at the Rabbinical College of America, in Morristown, New Jersey.

Muchnik has staged exhibits of his original paintings, bas-relief mosaics and lithographs throughout the world. His originals have been displayed at the Brooklyn Museum, the Goldman Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C., Yeshiva University Museum in New York, Dansforth Museum in Massachusetts, the Sydney Jewish Museum and the Sharei Tzedek Collection in Israel.