Journal
The conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brought academics, artists, and community members together in Madison, Wisconsin, for a week of…
At a week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin, participants approached the Haggadah as more than a book read during the Passover seder. They treated it as a…
A conference poster has a difficult job. It must announce an event, suggest its mood and communicate something about its subject before anyone reads the…
At the Madison conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, Hebrew letters offered a meeting point between language, belief, history, and visual…
Food crafts carry memory in a form people can touch, taste and remake. A braided challah, a folded pastry, a string of decorative beads or a stitched…
The day devoted to Jewish music and visual art collaboration at “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” showed how cultural meaning can move between an…
The exhibition presented through Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture offers a close look at how contemporary Jewish artists use images, objects,…
A walking tour can make cultural history feel less like a sequence of dates and more like a set of relationships between streets, buildings, memories and daily…
A conference talk at Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture reconsidered the familiar story of Jewish Abstract Expressionism by placing women artists at…
The opening-night keynote at Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture established the intellectual and emotional direction for the week in Madison,…