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Jewish Art Now at ATARA Conference
2 Feb2012
Jewish Art Now will presenting a pop-up shop during the ATARA Conference 2012Â (Arts & Torah Organization for Religious Artists)
Saturday February 11, 8pm
Coffee House at the Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 (F to 7th Ave, R to 9th St)
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Line-up of bands and solo performers with MC Elana Greenspan and Jewish art sale with Jewish Art Now, Jewish Art Salon, and independent artists. Read the rest of this entry »
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Solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Alan Falk from the past decade. Exhibition is curated by renown Jewish art collector, Sigmund Balka.
Krasdale New York City Gallery, 400 Food Center Drive, Bronx, New York.
Exhibition runs through March 14, 2011. By appointment only.
Artist Reception – Wednesday, February 15, 2012 from 5:30-7:30pm.
If you would like to attend the reception or would like to receive a printed invitation, please RSVP to (718) 378-1100 x2125.
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No Place Like Home – Photographs by Judah Passow
A Portrait of Contemporary Jewish Life
Black & White Photography Exhibition at the Jewish Museum, London
1 February – 5 June 2012
No Place Like Home, a year-long photography project by eminent photojournalist Judah Passow, is an intense study and defining moment in the documentation of Jewish lives and communities in 21stcentury Britain.
Curated by the Jewish Museum and partnered by Pears Foundation, No Place Like Home is a beautifully crafted narration of Passow’s journey through Jewish communities in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland during 2010. The images range from the heart-warming to the humorous and the passive to the provocative.
Judah Passow says: “This project is a visual conversation with the Jewish community – an opportunity to examine and reflect on what it means to be British and Jewish in the 21st Century.†Read the rest of this entry »
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(Visual Art/Jazz/Poetry): A unique workshop
Open to the public. Non-artists welcome.
Thursday February 16, 8:30PM -10:30PM
The Center for Jewish Arts and Literacy at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003
Jewish Art Salon and Sixth Street Synagogue in NYC premier a night of break-through cross-genre collaboration!
Performance poet Jake Marmer will recite his cycle of Talmud-inspired poems, while musicians will spontaneously “darshen” – interact with, and interpret – the spoken material. Saxophonist Greg “Jazz Rabbi” Wall, Uri Sharlin on keys, Rob Henke on trumpet, and Jon Madof on guitar.
Visual artists (and non-artists) are invited to spontaneously create the next level of “darshening”, further interpreting the words and music through their medium.
There will be discussion and conversation interspersed with the performance.
You are welcome to just listen to the poetry and concert, without sketching.
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Call for Entries: Jewish Exponent Cover
23 Jan2012
The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia is seeking proposals from artists (preferably local) to design cover art for the Jewish Exponent’s special 125th anniversary edition, to be published in May 2012.
Please submit a sketch with a detailed description of the media to be used and how the final work will be submitted. Samples of previous work should be included. Traditional and digital artwork will be considered.
The final printed cover will measure 9″ x 10.5″ with 1/4″ bleed. Deadline submission for proposals is Feb. 9.
Send to Joe Kemp at kempj@jewishexp onent.com, 215- 832-0766 or contact him for further information. Read the rest of this entry »
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Central exhibition for the year 2012 at
The Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
Matronita:Jewish Feminist Art
Opening: Friday, 11:00 a.m. January 27, 2012
Curators: Dvora Liss and David Sperber
For the first time in Israel a museum has organized a major exhibition of Jewish feminist art by women who come from a traditional Jewish background.
Jewish Feminist art shares its themes with feminist art in general. Usually these are familiar subjects, such as power and oppression, body image, women as periphery, object-subject, blood and menstruation, and so on. Feminist Jewish works deal with subjects unique to the Jewish experience: niddah and immersion, hair covering, halakhic questions such as the problem of the agunah or halakhic infertility, women’s prayer, and women in the study hall.
(Above: Nechama Golan, You Shall Walk in Good Ways, 1999, photocopies of Talmud pages and polymer glue, 30x12x18. Collection of the artist)
These artists are informed by feminist art and gender discourse but also by traditional Judaism. They actively reexamine and reconstruct the tradition, while placing it in a critical yet constructive light. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jewish Art Workshops in Boston
12 Jan2012
The Art of Jewish Symbols and Jewish Spirit
Mondays 7:30-9 pm
4 week art workshop:Â February 6, 13, 20, 27
Somerville, MA
Instructor: Tova Speter
This painting class will explore the differences and similarities in visually representing Jewish symbols vs. visually representing Jewish spirit. We will utilize acrylic paint to create two-three paintings over four weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
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Studio Aggadah Pics & Video
11 Jan2012
Our Studio Aggadah event in Philadelphia was a smash! Check out the photos and video below to see what all the fuss is about.
Read about how Studio Aggadah came together in the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia: South Philly Synagogue Opens Doors to Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art by Mordechai Shinefield
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Call for Entries: CCAR Journal
9 Jan2012
CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly
TOPIC: The Intersection of The Arts and Judaism
SLATED FOR PUBLICATION: Winter 2013
GUEST EDITORS: Rabbi Eve Ben-Ora and Vickie Reikes-Fox
There are those who claim that the Jewish world has entered another Golden Age. Unprecedented opportunities for creative expression have led to a blossoming of the arts in the Jewish world. Visual expression, music, fine art and crafts have found their way into the consciousness of the Jews. Museums with Jewish content are being built or reimagined across the country. With the opportunity to create comes the question of authenticity.
Judaism has often had a conflicted notion of the visual depiction of ideas. The second commandment, which prohibits making something in GOD’s image, gives the impression that the visual depiction of human beings must be avoided; all the more so, the visage of the Divine. The strict rules around not illustrating a Torah scroll provide a clear message of avoiding the visual, while the long-standing tradition of illuminating Megilat Esther gives a different message. To further confuse the issue, we know of examples where it would appear that the prohibition against worshiping other gods is totally disregarded, i.e. early mosaic floors in synagogues that the symbols of the zodiac.
With this background in mind, the Winter 2013 issue of the CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly will offer the opportunity for reflection on the intersection between the arts and Judaism; who can create Jewish art and who determines what makes the art Jewish. Read the rest of this entry »
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Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at The Hebrew Home at Riverdale
5901 Palisade Avenue
(at West 261st Street)
Bronx, NYÂ Â 10471
Join Richard McBee for any or all of this series of classes on Jewish art history. Thursdays Jan 5, Jan 12,  Jan 19,  Jan 26, 2012, at 2:30 pm.
“Murals, Mosaics, and Manuscript Illumination (250 CE to 16th century)†on Jan. 5 will explore the very beginnings of Jewish art with the Dura Europos murals, the synagogue mosaic floors from Roman and Byzantine Palestine, and the Golden Age of Jewish illuminated manuscripts from the 11th to 15th centuries.
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- Tags: Art History, NYC
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