Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art

Tobi Kahn - URAH IV

Jewish Art Salon members Andi Arnovitz, Ken Goldman, Tobi Kahn, Judith Margolis, Jacqueline Nichols and Ruth Schreiber will participate in the first Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art.

See Biennale video here

Tobi Kahn, who is renowned for his meditative and sacred art, will join other international and Israeli artists exhibiting in the first Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art that will take place in five different locations around the city, from 16 September – 31 October 2013.

Video tour & interviews of MOBIA's Hebrew Texts Exhibit

As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts showcases the work of 14 contemporary book artists who explore traditional themes in unconventional ways. 
     The exhibit runs till September 29 at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), New York.
     Check out the videos of the curator's tour given by MOBIA's Adrianne Rubin, Ph.D and interviews with 3 of the artists.

Curators Tour by Adrianne Rubin, PhD. 

Robert Kirschbaum 

  

Andi Arnovitz 

  

Carole Kunstadt 

JSpace Shana Tova L'Chaim

The Jewish Art Salon joins over 40 organizations lending their support to JSpace to bring the community together to celebrate the Jewish New Year.

Shana Tova L'Chaim.

Monday, September 9. 

Doors open at 7 PM

Hudson Terrace

621 West 46th Street

Free entry with RSVP on Jspace.com

http://www.jspace.com/events/view/?id=2339

Jewish Art Salon receives grant from COJECO

“Connect with Art”, the Jewish Art Salon's series of young adult art programs in New York, has received funding from COJECO. The series aims to engage Russian Jews with the greater Jewish community, fostering a stronger connection to culture and traditions, and to each other, through art. 

These programs, organized by the Jewish Art Salon, will be hosted in partnership with Ycrop and RJeneration.

The series will feature hands-on workshops, lecture presentations, and film. Participating artists are Jewish Art Salon members Siona Benjamin, Tobi Kahn, Joel Silverstein, Saul Sudin, and Julian Voloj. Yona Verwer is the program's coordinator.

This program is sponsored by Center Without Walls, a project of COJECO, funded by the UJA-Federation of NY and Genesis Philanthropy Group.  

Sarah Lightman in ArtReview

Sarah Lightman's interview with Paul Gravett about her solo show, "The Book of Sarah"  was featured in May's ArtReview 
The extended interview can be seen here.


On a different note, Lightman wrote a chapter about Diane Noomin's Comics "Baby Talk: Tale of 4 Miscarriages" in this book, Trauma Narratives and Herstory, edited by Sonya Andermahr and Silvia Pellicer-Ortin, Palgrave MacMillan.  Lightman is writing an academic PhD on Trauma and Comics entitled "The Drawn Wound- Hurting and Healing in Autobiographical Comics".

Diane Noomin and Sarah Lightman are both artists in the successful traveling art exhibit Graphic Details - Confessional Comics by Jewish Women. See the exhibit review in the Forward here. 

Collaboration with Jewish High School Poetry Competition

The Jewish Art Salon is collaborating with the Jewish High School Poetry Competition, organized by Aaron Roller, previous editor of Mima'amakim, an intercollegiate Jewish poetry journal. 

The Poetry Competition has been Roller's way of bringing a greater involvement with the arts to Jewish high schools. The program brings Jewish schools together for a live slam like poetry competition with traditional poetic forms and a Jewish theme. The program has given Jewish students an opportunity to write, perform and meet other students with similar interests and it has unleashed a flood of talent. 

Click here to see the article in Tablet Magazine. 

This project will now add a visual art component. We are looking for art images and for prospective guest judges. 

Jews and Modern Visual Culture Conference with Sarah Lightman

The Jews and Modern Visual Culture Conference will take place September 8-10 at the Manchester Jewish Museum. London-based artist, curator and writer Sarah Lightman will be speaking about her artwork "The Book of Sarah" Tuesday September 10, 1:45 -  2:45 PM.

This is the first conference on Jews and modern visual culture ever to be held in the United Kingdom. It will cover diverse themes such as the Jewish relationship with photography and cinema, as well as engagement with more conventional artistic formats. It also considers how modern visual culture portrayed Jews, such media as cartoons and contemporary digital forms. Papers will be presented by scholars from around the world, including the USA, Poland, Germany and Israel, as well as the UK.