Journal

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

The week-long Practicing Jews conference brings academics, artists and community members together in Madison, Wisconsin, to examine Jewish visual culture,…

The evening session at the Madison conference brought together jazz, klezmer, and the creative possibilities of improvisation. Its focus was musical, yet the…

Jewish artistic traditions are often scattered across family collections, community memories, synagogue objects and stories that were never formally…

The panel on Jewish women artists who painted outside the canon brought a vital question into the conference’s wider discussion of Jewish visual culture: who…

A film screening can make an academic conference feel unexpectedly intimate. While lectures explain ideas through argument and evidence, film gives those ideas…

The conference’s walking tour visits the hidden murals of Madison’s old neighbourhood, bringing participants away from lecture rooms and into the city’s visual…

At the Madison conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, dance became more than a performance medium. It offered a way to examine how Jewish…

A week-long conference on Jewish visual culture, dance, identity, gender, and artistic expression begins with a welcome ceremony at a local synagogue for a…

A volunteer day at “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” begins before most visitors reach the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. After checking…