Journal

Clay and memory: Jewish ceramicists in British Mandate Palestine

The week-long Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture conference in Madison, Wisconsin, brought academics, artists and community members into conversation…

Why a living Purim Spiel belongs at this conference

Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture is a week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin, bringing academics, artists and community members into…

The art critic in the Jewish press

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

Matchbox labels and the Jewish story in motion

The conference’s exhibit of Jewish matchbox labels from the Pale of Settlement brought an extraordinary history into an easily overlooked format. Held…

Poets and Painters in a Shared Act of Reading

Held over a week in Madison, Wisconsin, “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” gathers academics, artists and community members around Jewish visual…

Abstraction, memory and Jewish artistic response

The Madison conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture created space for artists, academics and community members to examine how Jewish life is…

Beeswax, Moulds and Hanukkah in Madison

Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brought academics, artists and community members together for a week of talks, keynotes and participatory work in…

The painted ceilings of Polish wooden synagogues

The conference’s talk on the painted ceilings of Polish wooden synagogues brought historical images into conversation with contemporary Jewish artistic…

Preserving fragile textiles while Jewish stories stay visible

Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brought academics, artists, and community members together in Madison to examine Jewish visual culture through…

Jewish dance and the radical possibilities of movement

At the Madison gathering Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, the video essay on the art of Jewish dance in the 1970s avant-garde treats movement as a…