Journal

“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” created a shared setting for people who approach Jewish life through different forms of knowledge. Held over a…

“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brought academics, artists, and community members together in Madison, Wisconsin, for a week of discussion,…

A venue does more than provide walls, seats, and presentation equipment. For a gathering devoted to Jewish art, identity, and culture, the setting shapes how…

Jewish identity in the 21st century is shaped by many overlapping experiences: religious practice, family history, cultural memory, artistic expression,…

The Practicing Jews conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brings together a week of conversations about Jewish visual culture, artistic expression, identity,…

The Practicing Jews conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brings together people who study Jewish culture and people who create it. Across a week of talks,…

Dance can be a language of devotion. Before a dancer speaks, explains, or interprets, the body enters a relationship with time, space, breath, and community.…

Jewish art has long carried sacred memory into visible form. In contemporary practice, Torah is not treated only as an object of study or a fixed set of words.…

Madison, Wisconsin, offered a setting where scholarship, artistic practice, and community conversation could meet naturally. As a university city and state…

Jewish identity rarely fits into a single image, material, or inherited symbol. It develops through memory, ritual, language, family histories, migration, and…