Journal
The emerging artist showcase gave Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture a visual and experiential dimension. Set within a week-long conference in…
The conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture created a setting where scholarship, creative practice, and community experience could meet. Held…
A shofar is often introduced as a ritual instrument, sounded during the High Holy Days to awaken attention, repentance, and communal memory. Yet its cracked…
Jewish art carries memory, belief, conflict, humor, and belonging across many forms. It can appear in painting, photography, performance, dance, ritual…
The conference’s session on Jewish art and the diaspora examined how artistic practice carries memory across borders, languages, and generations. Rather than…
A Jewish home can function as a gallery, archive, and place of worship at the same time. Its objects carry family stories, religious meaning, regional…
At “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture,” film offered a vivid way to explore how Jewish life is imagined, remembered, questioned, and performed. The…
The body is both a personal canvas and a public statement. Tattoos, piercings, clothing, gesture, and movement can communicate ancestry, belief, gender,…
The “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, created space for conversations that crossed academic, artistic, and…
Biblical stories continue to shape Jewish visual culture, even when contemporary artists move far beyond traditional religious illustration. The narratives of…