Journal
The week-long conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brings academics, artists and community members together in Madison, Wisconsin. Talks,…
Over seven days in Madison, Wisconsin, Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brought academics, artists, curators and community members together. Talks,…
At the Madison conference on Jewish art, identity, and culture, the workshop on fabric printing with symbols from the Four Species offered a tactile way into a…
The conference session on the illustration of Jewish children’s books in the 1950s examined a period when picture-making carried unusual cultural weight. In…
A Jewish deli sign can look simple: bold lettering, a familiar food image, a promise of generous portions. Yet its visual language carries stories about…
Held over a week in Madison, Wisconsin, the Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture conference gathered academics, artists and community members to…
The gallery tour formed a vivid part of “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture”, a week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Alongside academic talks,…
Jewish deathbed portraits and mourning miniatures are intimate works of remembrance. Painted during a final illness or after death, then sometimes mounted in a…
In Madison, Wisconsin, an evening klezmer jam can do something a formal gallery talk seldom does: let an artwork respond to the body in real time. The…
In Madison, Wisconsin, the week-long Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture conference brings academics, artists and community members together around…