religious Jews, but for same-gender and
intermarried couples as well. She enjoys the
artistic challenge of joining diff erent languages
and cultural traditions.

Aft er moving back to Philadelphia from
Baltimore in 2013, Marks had her fi rst
daughter, and decided that while she was
home, she’d begin to create ketubot, both
individualized for couples and as templates.

“It’s been great,” she said. “I feel like it has
enabled me to continue painting, to actually
be a paid working artist, which is every artist’s
goal. And the custom work especially is very
collaborative, and so I get to know the couples
that I’m working with.”
And like Shoham and Teutsch, she’s
beginning to see the ensuing life-cycle events
that come aft er marriage for the couples she’s
worked with, and she treasures her role in that.

“It’s so nice to see that I had some small
part in the beginning of their married life
together,” she said. ❤
jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740
Nava Shoham, Ketubah
Photo courtesy of Nava Shoham
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