Art Competition by Urban Adamah

Urban Adamah (“Adamah” means earth in Hebrew) is a community organic farm and Jewish environmental education center located in Berkeley, CA.

They are currently seeking proposals for original art (painting, mural or mixed media) to be installed on the side of their main office at the entrance to our Berkeley farm. Artwork should be inspired by the Jewish agricultural holidays of Passover, Shavuot and/or Sukkot.

Submission deadline: June 20, 2012

If the winning art piece is not created locally, Urban Adamah will pay for shipping to their site in Berkeley, CA.

More info here: http://urbanadamah.org/art-competition/

Heather Stoltz one of the 36 under 36

Heather Stoltz  was named one of the 36 under 36 by the NY Jewish Week. Read about "Making social justice part of her art" here

She will also participate in the exhibit Distressed  which opens  Thursday May 31 6:00-8:00pm at the  Boricua College (Broadway @ 156th St).  May 31 - June 19
Included Artists: Marcia Annenberg,  Hazel Bartram-Birchenough, Alice H. Brody, Camille Eskell, Linda Gilbert-Schneider, Francia, Mary Oestereicher Hamill, J. Hugentobler, Patti Jordan, Carole Richard Kaufmann, Carmen Hay Kolodzey, Gloria R. Lippmann, Bonnie MacAllister, Pamela Manché Pearce, Rosa Naparstek, Toby Needler, Anca Pedvisocar, Sarah Petitt, Arlene Rush, Simone Spicer, Elizabeth Sowell-Zak, Karen Starrett, Renata Stein, Heather G. Stoltz, Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt, Joyce Ellen Weinstein"    http://wcanychapter.tumblr.com/

Susan Schwalb at the IPCNY's New Prints 2012

Susan Schwalb

International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2012/Summer, on view May 24 through July 27, 2012 in its gallery at 508 West 26th Street, 5th floor.  Opening May 31, 2012 6-8pm.


The show consists of seventy-eight prints by seventy-two emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of over 2,500 submissions.  Shahzia Sikander was the sole juror for this exhibition, continuing IPCNY's tradition of inviting an individual artist to select the Spring or Summer New Prints show.  Past artist jurors include Kiki Smith, Richard Tuttle, James Siena, Jane Hammond, Polly Apfelbaum, Philip Pearlstein and Trenton Doyle Hancock.
 

"A Survivor Remembers… and Imagines” - Art by Dora Reym

Reception for Dora Reym’s Art Exhibition

“A Survivor Remembers and Imagines”

followed by Screening of Diamonds in the Snow 

The New Haven, CT JCC will hold a reception on June 6th, 5pm for its exhibit of Dora Reym’s oil paintings, watercolors, and charcoal drawings, A Survivor Remembers… and Imagines. The exhibition is now open and runs until July 2^nd 2012.

Let Books Be Your Pleasure Gardens

Kirschbaum

Exhibited in analogue form in the spring of 2011 at Yale University's Sterling Library, Let Books Be Your Pleasure Gardens is now an online exhibition.  The books on view represent the work of artists who have a deep emotional attachment to the texts they illustrate and who bring this passion in their work. They are from the United States, Israel and Europe and they explore their Jewish heritage in different and very personal ways. 

The exhibition includes books by Andi Arnovitz, Robert Kirschbaum, Judith Margolis,  and Mark Podwal, and are drawn from the Yale University Library's Arts of the Book Collection, part of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections.
View here: http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/site/AOB/intro.html

Podwal

Arnovitz

Margolis

Rachel Kanter's art in Witchy Women

Witchy Women - Mothers, Myths and Magic    
Opening June 1, 4 - 9 pm.  Through July 13.
  
73 See Gallery, 73 Pine Street, Montclair, NJ 07042     Hours: Tu-Th 10-6, Fri 10-3, Sat 12-6, Sun 10-6. 
   
Rachel Kanter, a fiber artist, is part of this diverse group of female artists all creating work about motherhood, myth and the magic of women.

Hoaxocaust

Monologist Barry Levey announces the first run of his new play “Hoaxocaust!”

“If the purpose of art is to provoke, I have never seen anything that did it more successfully than Hoaxocaust!” - Peter Alkalay. Chairman of The New Group ("Avenue Q")

See what people are saying at: www.HOAXOCAUST.com

Hoaxocaust! to run from May 29th to June 17th at the Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave, (9th St) New York City.

In Search of Sugihara - Lecture by Hillel Levine at Derfner Museum

Kovno by Jonathan Hammer

In Search of Sugihara will take place June 4, in conjunction with the exhibition, "Jonathan Hammer: Kovno-Kobe," on view in the Derfner Judaica Museum through July 29.

The exhibition includes pastels, drawings, etchings and a bifold screen inspired by events during World War II, when the Japanese Consul in Kovno, Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara, issued 2,140 handwritten travel visas in the summer of 1940 to mostly Polish refugees in the city allowing them to escape from almost certain death.

Aaron Roller's Yeshiva High School Poetry Slam

Aaron Roller, previous editor of Mima’amakim, an intercollegiate Jewish poetry journal, with whom the Jewish Art Salon has collaborated on several projects, founded the Yeshiva High School Poetry Slam.


“I know that kids interested in the arts are frequently in the minority in their schools, and could benefit from meeting kids in their interest group from other schools,” Roller said. Working with a teacher at YUHSB and the assistant principal at Rambam Mesivta, his alma mater, Roller organized a test slam at Rambam last year. In 2011-2012, there have been three poetry slams. He and Dena Weiss, a Frisch graduate and former co-editor of “Mima’amakim,” serve as judges.


Read article here

Brooklyn Museum Invites Brooklyn Artists - Opportunity

The Brooklyn Museum Invites Brooklyn Artists to Open Their Studios for Community Members and Curators to Collaborate on an Exhibition.

May 18, 2012, Brooklyn,---The Brooklyn Museum is launching a borough-wide initiative in which Brooklyn-based artists will be invited to open their studios, allowing community members to visit and nominate artists for inclusion in a group exhibition to be held at the Museum. Brooklyn Museum curators will visit the studios of top nominated artists to select works for the exhibition. The open studio weekend for GO: a community-curated open studio project will be held September 8 and 9. The exhibition will open during Target First Saturday on December 1, 2012, and will be on view through February 24, 2013. 
 

My Jewish Art Criticism Dénouement by Menachem Wecker

I am very sorry to hear that Menachem Wecker is leaving the Jewish Press. He and Richard McBee took turns writing the art column each week.

I could usually tell just by the title of the piece whether it was Menachem's or Richard's: if it provoked a burst of laughter, it was guaranteed Menachem's. (And I mean that in the most positive way!). The Jewish Art Salon fervently hopes he will continue his incisive art observations elsewhere.

Read his final article here

Yona Verwer

Howard Lerner's Myth & Metaphor

Lerner's exhibition focuses on his work with found object sculpture incorporating Scripture and Midrashic tales.  New paintings deal with similar themes including his focus on Yoga.

Reception: Thursday June 7, 5:30-7:30 PM


Synchronicity Fine Arts
106 West 13th St. (Btw 6th & 7th Ave.)
New York, NY 10011


June 6 through July 7, 2012

International Jewish Artist of the Year Award Exhibition

Creating Adam & Eve

London's  Ben Uri Gallery opened May 9th with its IJAYA exhibit. Ruth Schreiber is showing a new animation video called "Creating Adam and Eve", based on Midrashim concerning the Creation of Man. It can be seen on her website  under Digital media/Videos. Dov Abramson has work in the exhibit as well.

108A Boundary Road, St. John's Wood, London NW8 0RH 
May 9 - May 27, 2012. Hours: 10-5pm M-F

Skirball's Artists Beit Midrash Exhibit opens June 5

Helene Aylon's book event at the Brooklyn Museum

Helene Aylon will be reading from her memoir WHATEVER IS CONTAINED MUST BE RELEASED: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist, which was recently published by the Feminist Press.
 
June 9, 2012, 2PM. 
Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

October 10 at The Rose Art Museum, Boston.

Alon Nechushtan at the Olive Branch Jazz Festival

Saturday May 12 at the 6th street Synagogue in the East Village, NYC: Alon Nechushtan, as part of the great Olive Branch Jazz Festival, with new music and a cool band! They won the Best Jazz Album of the Year by the 11th Independent Music Award.  Art exhibit with works by Yona Verwer. The 6th Street Synagogue 325 E. Sixth Street | New York, NY 10003 One set: 9:30pm. More info here WWW.MUSICALON.COM

Matthew Baigell's "Social Concern and Tikkun Olam in Jewish American Art"

Ars Judaica, Bar-Ilan's annual Journal of Jewish Art, published an article by Professor Matthew Baigell: Social Concern and Tikkun Olam in Jewish American Art.  Baigell suggests that American Jewish artists are characterized by concern for the betterment of humankind; his sources include Jewish postcards, photographs, and caricatures as well as the work of contemporary American Jewish artists.


Among those featured are Jewish Art Salon members Siona Benjamin, Tobi Kahn, Renata Stein, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Yona Verwer.

Volume 8 is available here.

Verwer's “City Charms” exhibited at Olive Branch Music Festival

Times Square Taxi-God's Medallion

The “Olive Branch Music Festival” is a festival that features the musician diaspora in New York City. The festival is an initiative branching out to all inter-cultural crossings with artists who deeply enrich and contribute to the arts and culture in the city of New York. .

Some of the participating artists: Frank London, Guy Barash, Eyal Maoz.

Yona Verwer’s “City Charms” will be on exhibit during the event. “City Charms” is inspired by the Kabbalists who used amulets for intervening in the natural course of events. These apotropaic images aim to invoke protection against attacks and to bring good luck.

May 8 - May 21, 2012

Sixth Street Community Synagogue

Center for Jewish Art & Literacy

325 E. Sixth Street | New York, NY 10003

The Book of Sarah - 2 short animation films

Sarah Lightman’s ongoing visual autobiography is "The Book of Sarah." This project seeks to rectify the Biblical silence of her namesake, in the form of diary drawings and text of the artist's life - her own Hampstead Bible.

Click here for 2 of her short animation films that she is showing this month at her exhibit in Israel

http://vimeo.com/thebookofsarah

Siona Benjamin's art residency at the Mizel Museum

Thursday May 17 

Salon Night: Faces, Weaving Indian Jewish Narratives

Benjamin will discuss her Fulbright fellowship and ensuing art project in India.

Sunday May 20

she will teach a miniature painting workshop.

Mizel Museum, Denver, CO.

More info here