Journal
Jewish papercutting turns an ordinary sheet of paper into a field of symbols, names and stories. With a blade, patience and a strong sense of pattern, artists…
The Haggadah is one of Judaism’s most familiar books, read during the Passover seder to retell the Exodus story. Yet it is never a fixed object. Across…
The conference session on Jewish street art and graffiti examined how public visual culture can carry memory, argument, humour, belonging, and protest. Rather…
The “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, approaches Jewish visual culture as something lived through bodies,…
At Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, textiles offer a rich way to consider how Jewish life is made visible. Cloth can carry Hebrew text, family…
The farewell brunch and sketchbook sharing session offered a gentle way to end Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, a week-long conference in Madison,…
The workshop on designing a community quilt formed part of “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture”, a week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin.…
A week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brings academics, artists and community members into the same conversation about Jewish visual culture, identity,…
Tucked into the week-long Practicing Jews conference in Madison, Wisconsin, a single workshop quietly upended the expectations of participants who arrived…
For decades, the story of Jewish art has been told through the lens of great metropolises — Warsaw, Berlin, New York, Paris. Across continents and centuries,…