Journal
In the heart of Wisconsin, the "Practicing Jews" conference opened its week of talks with a keynote that pushed past familiar categories of Jewish art and…
The Tree of Life stands as one of the most enduring emblems in Jewish visual culture, its branches stretching from ancient parchment into contemporary…
In the heart of Wisconsin's capital, a conference usually devoted to Jewish art and diasporic memory opened its doors to a very different tradition. For one…
The Jewish calendar has never been a neutral instrument. Long before sunrise notifications and countdown widgets, communities calculated months through…
The workshop on reverse glass painting offered a quiet, focused counterpoint to the louder keynote sessions in Madison. Participants gathered around long…
Portraiture has always done more than record a face. In Jewish visual culture, an image can carry family memory, religious practice, migration history, gender…
Madison, Wisconsin, welcomed scholars, artists and community members for a week of rigorous conversation about Jewish visual culture. Among the panels and…
Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture arrived in Madison, Wisconsin with a deeply sensory agenda. Beyond lectures and gallery displays, the gathering…
Tucked into a sunlit room on the first floor of the conference venue, the pop-up printmaking studio hummed with conversation, the rhythmic clack of the press,…
The Practicing Jews conference, hosted in Madison, Wisconsin, gathered a deliberately wide circle of academics, practising artists, dancers, and community…