Journal
“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brought academics, artists, and community members together for a week of conversation in Madison, Wisconsin. Its…
Dance can preserve histories that resist straightforward narration. A gesture, pause, formation, or repeated pathway may carry traces of displacement, fear,…
Jewish art carries memory across time. A family photograph, ritual object, dance, painting, or contemporary installation can preserve inherited knowledge while…
A conference title can do more than identify an event. It can establish a question, set an emotional tone, and invite participants to reconsider familiar…
Jewish art carries histories that are personal, communal, religious, political, and geographic. A single painting, photograph, textile, dance performance, or…
A pioneering Jewish woman artist can be remembered in several ways: as a maker of images, a participant in a community, a critic of social expectations, or a…
The “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference created a meeting place for academic inquiry, artistic practice, and community experience. Held…
Textiles carry stories in ways that are tactile, visual, and deeply personal. A length of fabric can preserve a family memory, signal belonging, or transform…
Jewish artistic expression often begins with movement: a family leaving one country for another, a language carried across borders, or a ritual adapted to a…
Synagogue architecture gives Jewish identity a visible and inhabitable form. Walls, windows, entrances, seating arrangements, Torah arks, and gathering areas…