Journal
At the “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, artistic practice was treated as a form of inquiry. Talks, performances…
“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brought a week of discussion, performance, scholarship, and community exchange to Madison, Wisconsin. Its…
A conference lecture on the Tree of Life can begin with a familiar biblical image and open into a much wider conversation about memory, belonging and creative…
At the Madison conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, a workshop on making your own Jewish calendar art invited participants to treat the…
The hamsa, a hand-shaped symbol often associated with protection, blessing and good fortune, occupies a complicated place in Jewish visual culture. It appears…
A conference tour of the Chabad Art Collection in Madison offers a close look at how Jewish identity is carried through images, objects, movement and memory.…
The Practicing Jews conference in Madison, Wisconsin has long attracted scholars, artists, and community organisers who want to probe the textures of…
Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, a week-long conference held in Madison, Wisconsin, brought together academics, artists, and community members to…
The conference exhibit of contemporary Jewish tattoo designs offered a vivid way to consider how identity is carried on the body. As part of “Practicing Jews:…
The shofar is one of the oldest wind instruments still played in continuous ritual use, its raw blast cutting through centuries of prayer. When a master carver…