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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…
A week-long conference is more than a sequence of lectures. It is a carefully coordinated environment where people, ideas, spaces, and artistic practices can…
Modern Jewish art has never been shaped by a single tradition, medium, or point of view. It emerges from religious practice, migration, memory, politics,…
The gallery accompanying “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” offered a visual counterpart to a week of conversation in Madison, Wisconsin. While…
Jewish identity is never confined to a single medium, tradition, or point of view. It can emerge through a painted surface, a gesture in dance, a family…