By Julia Olson
Assistant Editor
For over a year, The American Israelite has featured a children’s page showcasing the art of Chari Pere, a New Jersey based artist. Each week, Pere shares with our readers her interpretation of the weekly parsha. She often draws out details that might be missed in the text, or accents the message in a story that gives us a new way to think about the material. She helps translate complex stories into visual art that is accessible to all ages.
Pere will be a featured panelist at the upcoming Jewish Comics Experience, hosted in NYC November 11-12 by the Center for Jewish History. Also featured at the convention is an interactive comic exhibit for which Pere designed giant coloring page wall murals for attendees to draw on. Each day, the murals are wiped clean and a new group of artists are free to express themselves.
According to the website, the Jewish Comics Experience, abbreviated to JewCE, “introduces young people to comics as an art form” using the exhibit as well as featured speakers.
Pere is also nominated for a 2023 JewCie Award in the category of Jewish Artist of the Year. In her career as an artist, Pere has created content for The Washington Post’s The Lily, as well as Mad Magazine. She has also storyboarded for Comedy Central, Bud Light, and Purina.
We here at the Israelite are very excited to be able to share Pere’s work with our readers every week, and we wish her the best of luck at the upcoming panel and award ceremony.
