Journal

When does an object become Jewish?

At the “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, the conference’s Roundtable on What Makes an Object “Jewish” Today…

Threads of memory: Ukrainian Jewish embroidery in America

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

How Residency Created a Collaborative Tapestry

How the Conference’s Artist Residency Built a Collaborative Tapestry in One Week captures the practical side of Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture. In…

The Living Practice of Hebrew Calligraphy

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

Why Light and Shadow Became the Conference’s Theme

Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture was a week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Academics, artists and community members gathered through talks…

Milwaukee’s Jewish centres: architecture, identity and change

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

Bespoke mezuzah cases from workshop idea to doorway

At Madison’s week-long Practicing Jews conference, the workshop on creating your own bespoke mezuzah cases brings design into the hands of participants. Rather…

Jewish street art and the platforms that carry it

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

How the conference explores Passover Haggadah art beyond the Seder

Over a week in Madison, Wisconsin, Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brings scholars, artists and community members into the same conversation. The…

Women behind the lens in the 1930s

In Madison, Wisconsin, the week-long conference “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brought academics, artists and community members together to…