Journal
The conference exhibit of miniature Torah arks offered a focused way to consider Jewish visual culture. Rather than presenting religious objects as decoration…
Jewish art has always travelled with people. In the shtetl, painted signs, embroidered textiles, synagogue murals, illustrated books and domestic objects…
The conference workshop on creating your own dreidel designs brought a hands-on dimension to Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture. Alongside academic…
A cat may seem an unlikely guide to Jewish visual culture. It is familiar, domestic and faintly comic, yet its appearances in painted furniture, embroidered…
The conference Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture brought academics, artists and community members together in Madison, Wisconsin, for a week of…
The keynote on Jewish feminism and visual culture gave the Madison conference a way to examine how images, bodies and creative practice shape Jewish identity.…
How Jewish artists depict the Sabbath: paintings and sculpture is a question about time, ritual and belonging as much as it is about style. Across Jewish…
A sukkah is a temporary shelter built during Sukkot, the Jewish festival that recalls the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness. It is open to the sky,…
Digital entertainment is increasingly shaped by identity, technology, and personal choice. Those themes were central to “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and…
Promotions often work through symbols, anticipation, and a sense of participation. Those same ideas appear across visual culture, from gallery installations…