Journal

The workshop on creating papercut ketubahs offered a hands-on way to connect Jewish tradition with contemporary visual culture. Within the wider “Practicing…

The display of Jewish folk toys and games at “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” offered a compact way to explore how culture is learned through…

A concert poster can announce a performance, yet its work often begins long before anyone enters the venue. Through typography, colour, symbols and visual…

Torah mantles and binders are often encountered as quiet, functional objects: a textile cover, a decorated case, or a set of boards protecting a scroll. At the…

The conference panel on Jewish art collecting and private collections in Wisconsin examined collecting as a cultural practice rather than a purely financial…

The conference session on the aesthetics of Jewish food presentation and plating examined how food can communicate memory, belonging and cultural identity…

At the “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” conference in Madison, Wisconsin, artistic practice was treated as a form of inquiry. Talks, performances…

“Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” brought a week of discussion, performance, scholarship, and community exchange to Madison, Wisconsin. Its…

A conference lecture on the Tree of Life can begin with a familiar biblical image and open into a much wider conversation about memory, belonging and creative…

At the Madison conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, a workshop on making your own Jewish calendar art invited participants to treat the…