ABOUT JACQUELINE BERG

As a renowned fiber artist/quilter and having a deep passion for textiles and graphic symbolisms Jacqueline Berg started creating religious garments and jewelry for all faiths. She also works in non-religious jewelry in semi precious stones and glass. Textiles seemed to her a natural path in her artistic development that parallels her deeper understanding of Religious history and hope for an interfaith world. Traveling this path she has come to believe that Religious ceremonial garments, in most faiths, are used for very similar ceremonies, goals and objectives. Many people outside her Jewish faith have asked her to make ceremonial garments for them; hence this started her interfaith work. People have wondered why she makes images from many traditions or faiths rather than just her own. In creating sacred imagery for all people she has encountered the desire for spirituality and holiness, which is in all human beings. This spirituality represents the hope for the future in a common meeting ground where peace can be found. Nurturing this hunger wherever she finds it is her life's work. Jacqueline Berg is a trained Interior Designer in Commercial and residential venues for over 20 years, with projects in Manhattan and San Francisco.

Her work is seen throughout the US and in 7 countries. She has lectured at the Smithsonian Institute/Renwick Gallery on her fiberart work and has exhibited at numerous galleries in New York City and Southampton, New York. You can see her work on www.jewishart.net. and www.bibleart.net

On June 10, 2005 Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco honored Archbishop William J. Levada for his service to San Francisco. Archbishop Levada left this summer for the Vatican to assume his new post as the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Popes right hand person. Jacqueline Berg presented him with one of her beautiful handmade stoles with the thought of representing two faiths coming together for a shared cause.