Journal
The Conference’s Workshop on Jewish Mask Making for Purim brought the themes of “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” into a tactile setting. Rather…
“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brought together academics, artists, and community members in Madison, Wisconsin, for a week of conversations,…
A Jewish wedding invitation is more than a formal announcement. It is a small, carefully designed statement about family, faith, place, heritage, and the kind…
“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” examined Jewish life through the ways people create, interpret, and inhabit culture. Held over a week in Madison,…
Jewish comics and graphic novels have become an important part of contemporary visual culture. Their panels, captions, speech balloons, and recurring…
The young artists program at “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” placed emerging creative voices within a wider conversation about Jewish life and…
Israeli folk dance has developed from communal celebration into a significant source of movement, memory, and cultural debate. Its circle formations, partnered…
The conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture creates room for conversations that move between scholarship, creative work, and lived experience.…
Jewish sculpture brings together material skill, historical memory, and questions of belonging. A carved wooden figure, a forged ritual object, or a…
A mezuzah is often encountered as a small object attached to a Jewish doorway, yet its visible case can carry an expansive artistic vocabulary. Shape, color,…