Journal
The Practicing Jews conference in Madison assembled a remarkable cross-section of artists, scholars, and community members to examine how visual culture…
The Practicing Jews conference in Madison, Wisconsin, unfolded across a single intensive week, drawing together scholars, practising artists and curious…
The live calligraphy demonstration of Hebrew scripts offered a close, practical view of how Jewish visual culture is made. At the Madison conference, visitors…
The lecture on the history of Jewish wedding canopies in the Midwest offered a focused way to explore how religious objects carry memory. Within the…
Across centuries and continents, the image of the lion has prowled through Jewish sacred art, appearing on Torah arks, carved benches, embroidered parochet…
Hair is often treated as a private matter, yet it can carry religious practice, family memory, gender expectations and public identity. In Jewish communities,…
The week-long “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brought academics, artists, and community members into the same…
When scholars and artists gathered at the conference in Madison, one quietly ambitious project sat alongside the keynote lectures and panel discussions: a…
In the Madison conference centre auditorium, scholars, painters, and curious onlookers gathered for a talk bridging centuries of esoteric tradition with the…
The week-long “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brought academics, artists, and community members into the same…