Jewish Art Salon

Art Competition by Urban Adamah

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:48:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:26:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:21:00 +0000

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.

New Prints 2012/Summer - Selected by Shahzia Sikander is the forty-second presentation of IPCNY's New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY several times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. An illustrated brochure, including an interview with Ms. Sikander, will accompany the exhibition.

The complete artists' list is as follows:
Golnar Adili, Felipe Baeza, James Bailey, Natalya Balnova, Joell Baxter, Joe Biel, Danielle Blevins, Nancy Bolan, Yael Brotman, Maria Providencia Casanovas, Phillip Chen, Tamar Cohen, Max Colby, Mauricio Cortes, Santiago Cucullu, Michael Dal Cerro, Rhonda Davies, Erin Diebboll, Stella Ebner, Orna Feinstein, Rochelle Feinstein, Yuko Fukuzumi, Ron Fundingsland, Shanti Grumbine, Libby Hague, Hannah Harkes, Dusty Herbig, Yuji Hiratsuka, Szu-Wei Ho, Anthony Holmquist, Traci Horgen, Gunnhilde Høyer, Raluca Iancu, Donna Ingemanson, Jon Irving, Elizaveta Ivanova, Oksana Judakova, Naomi Kazama, Mario Laplante, Michael Loderstedt, Janet Marcavage, Michael Marshall, Chris Martin, Kristen Martincic, Tokoha Matsuda, Elizabeth Mayor, Michael Miller, Samantha Mitchell, James Mustin, Yoonmi Nam, Thomas Nawrocki, Doris Neidl, Bridget O'Donnell, Sharron Okines, Alice O'Neill, Sara Parkel, Enoc Perez, Serena Perrone, Miriam Rudolph, Dan Rule, David Sandlin, Ursula Schneider, Susan Schwalb, Robert Schwark, Andrew Shin, Lesley Sickle, Brian Spolans, Keigo Takahashi, Fulvio Tomasi, Albert Webb, Alexi Worth, and Derick Wycherly.

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:18:00 +0000

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^nd2012.

Dora Reym, 97 years old and a resident of Hamden CT was a participant in this year’s “Adopt a Survivor” Program. As a young woman, Dora Reym survived two winters in the Auschwitz death camp. In her 60s she taught herself to paint and draw.

The 74 pictures in the exhibit tell a moving and inspiring story.The narrative begins with scenes of Jewish life in pre-war Poland as well as charcoal drawings of family members who perished in the Holocaust and it progresses to portraits, landscapes and still life paintings in oil and watercolor that depict life reclaimed and re-imagined.

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The reception takes place at 5pm and will be followed at 7pm by a screening of the prize-winning documentary, Diamonds in the Snow, which includes an interview with Dora Reym as well as some of her artwork. The film has been shown on PBS as well as in Europe, Mexico and China. It was made by Dora Reym’s daughter Mira Reym Binford, a filmmaker and Quinnipiac University Professor Emerita. A Q&A with the filmmaker will follow.

Diamonds in the Snowtells of three women who as children were rescued from the Nazis, and of the strangers who risked their own lives to save them. Focusing on Bedzin, Poland – a town close to Auschwitz – the film also tells the story of the destruction of a vibrant Jewish community.

“An intensely personal documentary… vivid and powerful, exceptionally sensitive, yet direct and unflinchingly honest…” -The New York Daily News

“…a work that manages, through the experiences of a few people, to evoke the annihilation of a culture.” -The New York Times

Date: June 6, 2012 Reception at 5pm. Film at 7pm

Place: JCC of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Rd., Woodbridge, CT, 06525

Contact: Anat Weiner 203-387-2522 Ext. 313 anatw@jccnh.org

“A Survivor Remembers… and Imagines”

THE ARTWORK OF DORA REYM

Dora Reym (originally Dora Pacht Rembiszewska, from Bedzin, Poland), now 97 years old and living in Hamden CT, did not begin painting until she was in her 60s. She taught herself to draw and paint by studying art books and reproductions and copying them, and taking a few classes in life drawing.Although she had never suspected she had artistic talent, she does remember as a child having a special love of color and pattern, and later making photo albums she covered with English linen on which she painted landscapes and roses. And she always had “a good eye”… in the snows of Auschwitz she once caught sight of a diamond, which she traded for a piece of bread.

Dora survived two winters in Auschwitz. She was reunited with her husband Mark and their daughter Mira, and after four years of waiting in Germany, they were finally allowed to immigrate to the United States in 1949. Living in New York, for the first ten years she worked long hours in factories, doing piecework until she was promoted to forelady.

When she began painting, she experimented with various media including oil paint, watercolor, gouache, pencil, and charcoal. She worked daily and intensively – she would lay down a tarp near a window, put up her easel, and paint all day… and when dinnertime neared, she would clean her brushes, roll up the tarp, pack all her materials into a closet, and by the time Mark came home from work, dinner was ready. She and Mark were a team. He prepared her canvases, framed the paintings and drawings, numbered and photographed them, sat patiently for portraits, and above all, loved and supported her work. When he became seriously ill, she devoted herself to his care, and her artwork stopped, never to be resumed.

She nurtured a passionate longing for the large family and the way of life lost in the Holocaust, and she poured that longing into nostalgic charcoals of pre-war Jewish life and especially into the portraits of members of her own and her husband’s immediate and extended families, thirty-six of whom were murdered by the Nazis.

She has completed a wartime memoir begun a few years before she started painting. Excerpts have been published in the United States and in Mexico and Spain in the journal Letras Libres.

Dora Reym’s work is in the collections of Mary Green, Palm Beach and New York City; Sumner Katz, Silver Spring MD and Boca Raton FL; TAPIT/New Works, Madison WI; and Giovanna Pascarella, Palm Beach. Several of her portraits are seen in the film, Diamonds in the Snow www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/Diamonds.htm#inst

Let Books Be Your Pleasure Gardens

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:43:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:21:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:47:00 +0000

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.

A theatrical experience in two acts, monologue and talk back session, probing the issues of cultural, ethnic and religious identity.

The performance allows you to situate yourself amidst the stereotypes and confusion of today's unfiltered news in an era of information overload.

Our timing could not be more spot-on.

HOAXOCAUST! is a shocking, irreverent examination of how "victims" are defined, how "truth" gets disseminated, and why, for all of us, politics are so stubbornly personal. Please join us as noted monologist Barry Levey asks daring questions about anti-Semitism and the reinterpretation of history. Is there such a thing as a contemporary Jewish identity independent of "The Holocaust"? Should there be? What if the Holocaust had never happened?

Veteran producers, David Milch, a child of Holocaust survivors, and Jonathan Pillot bring this production to life.

For more information and tickets, go to www.HOAXOCAUST.com or contact laura@hoaxocaust.com.

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:05:00 +0000

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.

Monday, June 4, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.

The Hebrew Home at Riverdale in the Biederman Library.

Hillel Levine is Professor of Sociology and Religion at Boston University. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. in Sociology and Jewish History from Harvard University. From 1973 to 1980 he taught sociology and Jewish history at Yale University, where he founded the program in Judaic Studies. From 1980 to 1982 he was Deputy Director for Museum Planning at the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in Washington. He has held visiting professorships in Japan, China, Poland, the Soviet Union, Brazil, and Israel. Professor Levine has written five books, including ""In Search of Sugihara"" (1996), and many articles on ethnic violence, normative conflict and how they may be resolved. His research provided the basis for an Oscar-winning documentary and two of his books are being made into documentaries and a feature-length dramatization. He is a popular lecturer, guest columnist in newspapers, and makes frequent radio and television appearances. He is also the President of the International Center for Conciliation, an NGO organized to prevent and resolve violent conflicts that are made all the more volatile by disputed histories and memories of past injuries.

As a member of the American Association of Museums, The Hebrew Home at Riverdale is committed to publicly exhibiting its art collection throughout its 19-acre campus, including the Derfner Judaica Museum and a sculpture garden overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades. The Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection provide educational and cultural programming for residents of the Hebrew Home, their families and the general public from throughout New York City, its surrounding suburbs and visitors from elsewhere. The Home is a nonprofit, non-sectarian geriatric center serving more than 3,000 elderly persons through its resources and community service programs.

The Art Collection, Gilbert Pavilion Gallery and grounds are open daily, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Derfner Judaica Museum is open, Sunday – Thursday, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Please call (718) 581-1596 for holiday hours.
http://www.hebrewhome.org/art.asp

Aaron Roller's Yeshiva High School Poetry Slam

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:17:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:04:00 +0000

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.

Web and mobile technology will be a central component bringing artists and community together to share information and perspectives on art. All participants (artists, voters, and volunteers) will be able to create a personal online profile at the project's website, www.gobrooklynart.org. Artist profiles will include photos of each artist and their studio, along with images and descriptions of their work. Volunteers will be connected with their respective neighborhoods online, and voters will have profiles that track their activity during the open studio weekend and provide a platform on which to share their perspectives.

The project organizers are Sharon Matt Atkins, Managing Curator of Exhibitions, and Shelley Bernstein, Chief of Technology. GO: a community-curated open studio project is inspired by two predecessors: ArtPrize, an annual publicly juried art competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the long tradition of open studio events that take place each year throughout Brooklyn.

This exhibition is made possible by Deutsche Bank.

"GO is a wide-ranging and unique project that will transform how Brooklyn communities engage in the arts by providing everyone with the chance to discover artistic talent and to be involved in the exhibition process on a grassroots level. Through the use of innovative technology, GO provides every Brooklyn resident with an extraordinary opportunity to participate in the visual arts in an unprecedented way," says Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman.

The project will launch on May 18 with volunteer registration. Volunteers will identify and work with local groups and businesses within specific neighborhoods to engage artists and potential studio visitors. The Brooklyn Museum will also partner with the Brooklyn Arts Council, open studio organizations, the Brooklyn Borough President's Office, and Heart of Brooklyn to promote participation in GO. The New York City Housing Authority will also play an important role in engaging residents living in public housing developments in Brooklyn.

Artists will have an opportunity to register their studios at www.gobrooklynart.org in June. Artist registration will be followed by voter registration in August and early September. In October, Sharon Matt Atkins and Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art, will make studio visits to the top nominated artists to select the work for the exhibition. Curators and community members will engage in a public dialogue about the selection of work.

GO continues the Brooklyn Museum's long tradition of highlighting the borough's community of artists. Since its 2004 exhibition, Open House: Working in Brooklyn, the largest survey to date of artists working in Brooklyn, the Museum has continued its commitment to Brooklyn artists with exhibitions by Fred Tomaselli, Lorna Simpson, and an upcoming exhibition by Mickalene Thomas, among others, and the current Raw/Cooked series of five exhibitions by under-the-radar Brooklyn artists.

A pioneer in crowd-sourced exhibitions, the Brooklyn Museum also presented Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (2008), a photography show in which nearly 3,500 community members evaluated the work of 389 local photographers. More recently, Split Second: Indian Paintings (2011) invited the Museum's online community to participate in the selection of works to be shown in an installation of Indian paintings.

"With more artists working in Brooklyn than ever before, this project offers artists and communities alike the chance to engage with one another and participate in the exhibition process," state the organizers.

The project's website can be found at www.gobrooklynart.org and will be updated throughout the process until the exhibition's opening in December 2012.

My Jewish Art Criticism Dénouement by Menachem Wecker

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:09:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:27:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:03:00 +0000

Helene Aylon's book event at the Brooklyn Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:40:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:59:00 +0000

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

" A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two-fisted sense of Architecture" -(Down Beat magazine 2011)- Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan will be bringing to 6th stret synagogue a trio of fantastic improvisers with a loose-tight chemistry placing a premium on group interplay at the same time encouraging individual solo expression. -Bill Milkowski STREAMING LINKS youtube streaming:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEo_KDXWY_8&feature=g-vrec&context=G26a6b20RVAAAAAAAAAg (Spinning the clouds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHaYJizdvI8&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9A6rcyrnjNBLEKiiqUQwJGd (entranced http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGN2CBr5aQ&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9A6rcyrnjNBLEKiiqUQwJGd&lf=list_relatedttp: (muppet shock)

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:09:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000

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

212.473.3665 | info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

More info: http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/

For centuries amulets have been used as appeals for safety, health, and power. In the Jewish tradition amulets often carried prayers and names to call upon for assistance. They gave the bearer "personal magic" to invoke a higher power to intercede.

Since the 9/11 attack Verwer has made this her expression of Tikkun Olam. The “City Charms” images invoke protection from the Evil Eye: acts of destruction on buildings, particularly terror-watch-list targets.

City Charms: Manhattan Bridge, C-Print

The Book of Sarah - 2 short animation films

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:56:00 +0000

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

Sarah is an award-winning artist, curator. She is currently researching a PhD at The University of Glasgow in Autobiography and Comics and is co-curating "Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women" a critically acclaimed touring show of 18 internationally renowned artists. Sarah is a Director of Laydeez do Comics, the UK’s first women’s led comics forum.

Siona Benjamin's art residency at the Mizel Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:49:00 +0000

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

Drisha Arts Fellows Explore Masekhet Berakhot

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:36:00 +0000

When to pray, Where to pray… Are you telling me how to pray?!

Thursday, May 17th, 2012 37 West 65th Street, 5th Fl. 7pm;

$10 RSVP: lleifer@drisha.org

Mark Podwal's Jewish Bestiary

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:23:00 +0000

La Stampa interview about the just published Italian edition of Mark Podwal's A Jewish Bestiary.

Photos of Jewish Art Salon session at the Y.U.Museum May 2

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:44:00 +0000

Click here for photos of the artists' session.

Hosted by Zachary Levine, curator of the Y.U. Museum.

Rochelle Rubinstein (Canada) gave a tour of her current exhibit Silk Stones, shown at the museum till June, 2012. She fuses personal experience, Jewish textual and cultural traditions, and bold, hand-crafted artistic process. Nancy Current (Seattle) gave a powerpoint presentation about her unique glass paintings and her L'Dor V'dor series. Renata Stein (New York by way of Germany) gave an overview of German Jewish artists researched by the Leo Baeck Institute, where she is a curator.

Local Builders with Robert Kirschbaum

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:15:00 +0000

Top image Jacque Metheny; Bottom image Robert Kirschbaum

Opening May 12, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM.
A-Space Gallery, 30 Elm Street, West Haven, Connecticut.
May 12 through June 9, Friday and Saturday 10 AM - 4 PM, or by appointment: phone 203-500-0268.

Curated by Stephen Vincent Kobasa, Local Builders is an anthology of Connecticut sculptors. Robert Kirschbaum and his wife, Jacque Metheny, are among 39 participating artists in this exhibition at the A-Space Gallery at West Cove Studio in West Haven, CT.

http://www.westcovestudio.com/exhibitions.html

THE ARTIS SHUK AT NADA ART FAIR, NYC

noreply@blogger.com (Yona) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:07:00 +0000

Artis at the inaugural NADA NYC - On the ROOF
May 4–7, 2012
548 West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue, New York City
FREE and open to the public

Housed in a tent with exhibition design by Comm-on Israeli (artist Lior Shvil), The Artis Shuk will feature unique and limited edition artwork by over 20 leading artists from Israel.

Conceived as a playful counterpart to the art fair, The Artis Shuk is inspired by the markets (shuks/souks) found throughout Israel and the Middle East. More info here