Immersive experience, creative transformation
Mo Golden
Research/Social Practice

Research/Social Practice

Social Practice, Art Based Research, and other projects…

Art directed, illustrated, and co-designed immersive published products for roughly 3,000 customers and organizational partners, between 2018 and 2023.

Click here to view portfolio of Gold Herring products

Partners and features included:

The Jewish Planner
  • A weekly planner that integrates Hebrew and Gregorian dates and connects the Jewish year to natural cycles.
  • Released annually with updated illustrations, 2018-2023.
The Omer Workbook
  • A 49-day self-care workbook with illustrations, journaling exercises, and art based activities.
  • Launched 2020.
The Jewish Monthly Tea Experience
  • A monthly herbal subscription, including an herbal blend for each Hebrew month, along with botanical illustrations, seasonal teachings, and mindfulness activities that connect with the theme of the month and the properties of the herbs.
  • Released annually, 2020-2023.
Night Forest for Jewish Gatherings
  • An interactive game ritual of memories and self-discovery. Adapted for Jewish audiences from the original version, co-created with Ross Cowman.
  • Launched 2019.
The Hebrew Calendar Teaching Kit
  • Printable digital product for Jewish educators, to support teaching about the Hebrew calendar experientially.
  • Launched 2020.
Mindful Walking Activity Kit
  • Printable digital product for Jewish educators, to support facilitating outdoor mindfulness activities.
  • Launched 2020.
Elul workbook
  • An interactive workbook with custom activities and exercises to help Hillel members reflect before the Hebrew new year.
  • Launched 2020.
Hebrew Dates Planner
  • a traditional planner but with Hebrew dates and a custom sundown tracking layout. Sold at Barnes & Noble.
  • Launched 2021.
Shmita! Teaching Kit
  • Digital product for understanding the seven year cycle of Shmita in the Hebrew calendar.
  • Launched 2022.

Filmed and produced interviews in 2016, asking 15 artists from across disciplines about their careers, creative process, artist identities, and beliefs around the role of artists in society. The full series can be found on Youtube.

 

Produced and facilitated a day-long expressive arts immersion with lectures, performances, and workshops.

  • Funded through a student enrichment grant at The Evergreen State College, February 2017.

Produced and facilitated an 8-week expressive arts immersion series with lectures, seminars, and workshops.

  • Funded through a student enrichment grant at The Evergreen State College, February 2016.

Produced and facilitated an 8-week expressive arts immersion series with lectures, seminars, and workshops.

  • Funded through a student enrichment grant at The Evergreen State College, February 2016.
  • Supported by student-directed studies at The Evergreen State College, February 2015.

Produced and facilitated an 8-week academic expressive arts program with lectures, seminars, and experiential workshops.

  • Two co-current cohorts, supported by student-directed studies at The Evergreen State College, December 2012.
  • Two co-current cohorts, supported by student-directed studies at The Evergreen State College, January 2013.
  • One cohort, supported by student-directed studies at The Evergreen State College, May 2013.

Immersive arts based inquiry workshop around themes of home/belonging/otherness, based on the expressive arts process of developing the one-woman show by the same name, a continuation of the Culmination Project after studying in Argentina and Peru through the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship.

  • Weekend intensive, Tomato Spirit Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 2012.
  • Day-long workshop, El Centro del Circulo Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2012.
  • Day-long workshop, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Wa. USA, April 2016
  • 3-hour workshop, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Wa. USA, April 2017.

Performed and produced one-woman show, as a continuation of the Culmination Project after studying in Argentina and Peru through the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship.

  • Tomato Spirit Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 2012.
  • El Centro del Circulo Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July, 2012.

Designed and produced Immersive Retreat, hosted by El Centro del Circulo Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  • Exploring our relationship with plants through arts based inquiry and taste, touch, smell, somatic experiencing, October, 2012.

Co-designed event, facilitated workshop sessions. Hosted by PCETI Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  • International symposium for expressive arts practitioners, September 2012.

Designed and facilitated class series for adults learning English. directed final performances. Tomato Spirit Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  • 4-week series, February 2012.
  • 8-week series, March 2012.
  • 8-week series, May 2012.

Wrote and performed one-woman show, along with visual art exhibition, Culmination Project after studying in Argentina and Peru through the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship.

  • The Cork Gallery, Baltimore, Md., November 2011.
  • The Train Station, Shepards Town, Wv., December 2011.