Journal

Jewish folk art has long carried memory across generations. Ritual objects, embroidered textiles, paper cuttings, painted signs, jewelry, and illustrated…

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

A week-long conference depends on far more than speakers, schedules, and carefully prepared rooms. At “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” in Madison,…

Jewish art has long carried questions of belonging, memory, responsibility, and difference. Across painting, photography, performance, dance, and installation,…

At “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture,” dance offered a physical way to examine how Jewish identity is created, remembered, and expressed. Music gave…

At the “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, creative work became a way to examine lived experience. Artists,…

A conference bookstore can extend a week of conversation long after the final keynote. At “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture,” books would give…

At “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture,” conversations about Jewish visual culture extend beyond museums and galleries. They ask how objects enter…

At the “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, conversations about Jewish life moved across galleries, lecture spaces,…

The conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture created a space where scholarship, artistic practice, and community experience could meet. Held over…