Bio/Contact
I make art to teach wisdom.
I believe wisdom is not made of clear-cut answers, but of questions, of complex, multi-faceted stories that get re-told and reinterpreted; of practices that bring out the best in us through the slow, sometimes grinding process of habit-formation; and of relationships that remind us not only of who we are, but of who we want to be. The stuff I make is born out of this trifecta.
Say Hey
rafa.kern222@gmail.com
Awards and recognition
Winner, "A Hebraica" Short Story Contest, 2007 (in Portuguese)
Sudler Award for the Arts at Yale University, 2008, 2010, 2011 (for The Bacchae, Conversations with my Father, and Elijah, respectively)
Graduation cum laude, with honors in the major, Yale University
Byron Fellow, 2011
Lemann Fellow at Columbia University, 2012-14
Institutional Merit Scholarship at Columbia University, 2012-14
TEDx Student Speaker at Columbia University, 2014
