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By Sarah Friedland, for Laba Journal During her recent residency at the MacDowell Colony, filmmaker Sarah Friedland engaged in a deep visual meditation of Ecclesiastes (Koheleth in Hebrew). Her tools were the text, a camera and a couple of packets of articulating paper that she found outside a dentist office back in New York City. […]
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Digital Art, Film, Interactive Art, Photography, Video Art
Nina Paley’s Chad Gadya “Embroidermotion”
16, Sep 2015After over a year of work, animator Nina Paley has finished the stunning “embroidermotion” of Chad Gadya as an intermission piece for her still in production feature length Seder-Masochism project. The exhaustive process used newly developed software by Theodore Gray to bring it to life, which you can read about in detail here. Every frame […]
The JTS Arts Advisory Board Presents Traversing Tradition: Transformation in and of Contemporary Jewish Life Exhibition Curator: Rebecca Pristoop Participating Artists: Tamar Ettun | Jake Levin | Angela Strassheim | Silvio Wolf | Gil Yefman | Sarah Zell Young September 10, 2015, through May 19, 2016 3080 Broadway (at 122nd Street) New York City Traversing […]
- In: Events
- Tags: Feminist Art, Installation, NYC, Photography, Ritual Objects, Sculpture, Video Art
Alisa Poplavskaya cordially invites you to join her for the Vernissage of her exhibition „Spiritellectual“ on September 6, 2015 at 4pm in the “Jüdische Galerie†in Berlin. What is „Spiritellectual“? Alisa Poplavskaya has returned from the mountains of Nepal and connects Jewish mystical concepts of the book Zohar with far-eastern influences and ecstatic visions. Her […]
CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING JEWISH ART is a three day conference covering many aspects of Jewish Visual Art from September 7th – 10th, 2015. Sessions include: “Expanding the Methodological Toolbox: Modern and Contemporary Contexts”, “The “Artless Jew†Discourse” and more. Get more information and view the full program at http://jart.biu.ac.il/en/JARTCONF#Program With fundamental shifts in culture, art […]
- In: Events
- Tags: Art History, Hebrew, Israel, Jewish Art Education
Indian-American Jewish Painter Siona Benjamin just posted a time lapse of the tile floor she designed being installed at the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri. Benjamin had worked for a year on a painting that would be transferred to ceramic tile and installed. The fifteen foot in diameter artwork takes us through the […]
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Art as Midrash, Installation, Midwest US, Mixed Media, Painting, Videos
Count The Omer With Hillel Smith’s GIFs
28, Apr 2015Los Angeles-based graphic designer Hillel Smith is creating GIFs to count the Omer, the 49 day cycle between the Passover and Shavuot holidays. Continue to count every night with Hillel as he updates each day at his Tumblr here.
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Animation, California, Digital Art, Graphic Design, Holidays, New Media
THE ART SPRINTER Emerging Jewish Artist Awards is a global art competition specifically targeting talented contemporary Jewish artists from all over the world. The project was created with the vision to recognize exceptional early and mid career artists and present their talent to a global audience through online promotion and a gallery exhibition. While submissions […]
- In: Call for Entries
Art Kibbutz Summer Residency Governor’s Island, New York City May 26 – September 10, 2015 Applications NOW OPEN APPLY HERE Art Kibbutz’s Summer Residency will take place in a former army officer’s mansion embedded in the midst of Governor’s Island’s picturesque landscapes, waterfront views, and unique historic architecture. With studios for visual artists, writers, poets, […]
- In: Call for Entries
- Tags: Jewish Artist Groups, NYC
by Avishay Artsy, for the Jewish Journal Over the past week, two graffiti artists have been applying layers of bright orange and blue paint to an outdoor wall of the Silverlake Independent JCC. Hillel Smith, a native Angeleno, and Itamar Paloge, a Tel Aviv-based artist, met a year ago through their shared interest in street […]
- In: News
- Tags: California, Calligraphy, Graffiti, Graphic Design, Installation, Israel, LA, Painting