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February 22. 6-8PM. YU Museum, NYC. Tour of Graphic Details: Confessional Comics of Jewish Women, and of Prophecy of Place: Quintan Ana Wikswo. Followed by discussion with three curators: Zachary Levine, Sarah Lightman & Michael Kaminer.
March 12. 7:30PM Tobi Kahn, Jacqueline Nicholls & Ken Goldman. Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning, NYC. More info soon.
Artists Respond to History
February 26 - April 13, 2012
Holocaust Memorial Center
28123 Orchard Lake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334 (Metro Detroit)
“Silent Witnesses” is a collaboration of the Cultural Heritage Artists Project, the Jewish Art Salon, JWalks, and the Holocaust . All of the works in this exhibit are being shown for the first time.
On February 20th, 2012, the innovative new exhibition Silent Witnesses: Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned opens at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
The 23 participating artists explore the intersection of community migration and Jewish heritage by researching abandoned synagogues throughout the United States, Europe, India and Israel, and creating paintings, photographs, installations and videos woven from the stories of the historic spaces.
With this exhibition, the Cultural Heritage Artists Project continues its pioneering work in developing an innovative model of artist initiated and organized exhibitions, based on the belief that by working together around a shared theme artists can create new works with meaning, while engaging in an artistic dialogue that encourages new aesthetic explorations.
Participating artists: Mel Alexenberg, Ellen Alt, Aileen Bassis, Miriam Benjamin, Siona Benjamin, Edith C. Dreikurs, Camille Eskel, James Stone Goodman, Rachel Kanter, Stacy Leeman, Martin Mendelsberg, Jacob Mezrahi, Joan Roth, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Ben Schachter, Susan Shender, Linda Soberman, Miriam Stern, Saul Sudin, Julian Voloj, Yona Verwer, Ahron Weiner and Todd Weinstein.
Catalog essays by Samuel D. Gruber, Ruth Ellen Gruber, Stephen M. Goldman, Deborah Kovsky-Apap, and Aaron Rosen.
More info: http://culturalheritageartistsproject.org/chap2/chap-two.html
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Upcoming Jewish Art Salon events:
February 22. 6-8PM. YU Museum, NYC. Tour of Graphic Details: Confessional Comics of Jewish Women, and of Prophecy of Place: Quintan Ana Wikswo. Followed by discussion with three curators: Zachary Levine, Sarah Lightman & Michael Kaminer.
March 12. 7:30PM Tobi Kahn, Jacqueline Nicholls & Ken Goldman. Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning, NYC. More info soon.
Jewish Art Salon exhibit:
Silent Witnesses: Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned - Collaborative Art Exhibit with the Jewish Art Salon
Artists Respond to History
February 26 - April 13, 2012
Holocaust Memorial Center
28123 Orchard Lake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334 (Metro Detroit)
“Silent Witnesses” is a collaboration of the Cultural Heritage Artists Project, the Jewish Art Salon, JWalks, and the Holocaust . All of the works in this exhibit are being shown for the first time.
On February 20th, 2012, the innovative new exhibition Silent Witnesses: Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned opens at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
The 23 participating artists explore the intersection of community migration and Jewish heritage by researching abandoned synagogues throughout the United States, Europe, India and Israel, and creating paintings, photographs, installations and videos woven from the stories of the historic spaces.
With this exhibition, the Cultural Heritage Artists Project continues its pioneering work in developing an innovative model of artist initiated and organized exhibitions, based on the belief that by working together around a shared theme artists can create new works with meaning, while engaging in an artistic dialogue that encourages new aesthetic explorations.
Participating artists: Mel Alexenberg, Ellen Alt, Aileen Bassis, Miriam Benjamin, Siona Benjamin, Edith C. Dreikurs, Camille Eskel, James Stone Goodman, Rachel Kanter, Stacy Leeman, Martin Mendelsberg, Jacob Mezrahi, Joan Roth, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Ben Schachter, Susan Shender, Linda Soberman, Miriam Stern, Saul Sudin, Julian Voloj, Yona Verwer, Ahron Weiner and Todd Weinstein.
Catalog essays by Samuel D. Gruber, Ruth Ellen Gruber, Stephen M. Goldman, Deborah Kovsky-Apap, and Aaron Rosen.
More info: http://culturalheritageartistsproject.org/chap2/chap-two.html
Members' events:
Ellen Holtzblatt Yizkor (Remember) 3/1/2012 Bucktown-Wicker Park Library March 1 to March 31 2012, Mondays 2 pm to 6 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 am to 6 pm, Wednesdays 12 pm to 8 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 9 am to 5 pm The Chicago Public Library celebrates March as Women’s History Month with exhibits highlighting the achievements and contributions of women in the visual arts. http://www.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/bucktown-wicker-park/
Ellen Holtzblatt The 15th International Open March 2, 2012 6-9 PM Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642 March 2, 2012 to April 26, 2012. Wednsday, Thursday and Friday 12 to 7; Saturday and Sunday 12-4 Group exhibit, juried by Linda Warren, who is the founder and director of Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago. http://womanmade.org/groupshows.html#2
Reineke Hollander Outside/Inside the Box March 3 5-8 pm Crane Arts Building, Icebox Project Space, 1400 North American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Through April 15 2012 Wed-Sun 12-6 pm Reineke Hollander contributes her work 'Five Ancestor Chairs' to this group show of artists who use 'fiber arts' in a non-traditional manner. www.fiberphiladelphia.org
Ellen Holtzblatt Yizkor (Remember) 3/1/2012 Bucktown-Wicker Park Library March 1 to March 31 2012, Mondays 2 pm to 6 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 10 am to 6 pm, Wednesdays 12 pm to 8 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 9 am to 5 pm The Chicago Public Library celebrates March as Women’s History Month with exhibits highlighting the achievements and contributions of women in the visual arts. http://www.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/bucktown-wicker-park/
Ellen Holtzblatt The 15th International Open March 2, 2012 6-9 PM Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642 March 2, 2012 to April 26, 2012. Wednsday, Thursday and Friday 12 to 7; Saturday and Sunday 12-4 Group exhibit, juried by Linda Warren, who is the founder and director of Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago. http://womanmade.org/groupshows.html#2
Reineke Hollander Outside/Inside the Box March 3 5-8 pm Crane Arts Building, Icebox Project Space, 1400 North American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Through April 15 2012 Wed-Sun 12-6 pm Reineke Hollander contributes her work 'Five Ancestor Chairs' to this group show of artists who use 'fiber arts' in a non-traditional manner. www.fiberphiladelphia.org
Mark Podwal's Sharing the Story at the Forum Gallery, NYC.
Opening reception - February 14 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.
This exhibition includes original works that illustrate Sharing the Journey: The Haggadah for the Contemporary Family by Alan S. Yoffie, published by the CCAR Press, Division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, also available through the gallery.
730 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10019. Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM to 5:30 PM. More info here
Alan Falk - Paintings & Works on Paper at the Krasdale Gallery.
Opening reception February 15, 5:30-7:30 PM. Curated by Sigmund Balka.
400 Food Center Drive, Bronx, NY 10474. Dec 15 - March 14.
Opening RSVP: 718-378-1100 X 2125
Robert Kirschbaum, Shaped by Books: The 42-Letter Name
Opening reception on Sunday, January 22, 2 PM - 4 PM
Dodd Gallery, Thomas J. Dood Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Exhibition from January 3 - March 2, 2012
Hours: Monday- Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
A print folio/artist’s book, "The 42-Letter Name" is a visual commentary on concepts found in early Jewish mysticism relating to The Creation and one of the secret names of God. Robert Kirschbaum is exhibiting all 42 images from the folio along with other books, ranging from The Sefer Yetzirah to Superman comics, that inspired, influenced and informed "The 42-Letter Name." More information available here Article about the exhibit here
Shoshannah Brombacher, Exhibition Nisht kayn Shuh
Exhibit through February 14, 2012
Chulent Yiddish Theater, 127 West 24 Street, New York
Sun.: 12-6 PM. Mon.-Thurs: 11AM-2PM, 5-8PM
Dutch-born artist Shoshannah Brombacher will show many works about the golem of Prague and the dybbuk of Ans-ki in this Yiddish theater, where a golem reading will be held (see below), together with Chassidic art, classical music, and poetry. She will introduce the exhibition with a lecture about what makes art 'Jewish' from the perspective of the artist and the viewer.
Maarten van der Heijden, Arti et Amicitiae Salon 2012
Opening on January, 13 2012 7 pm
Amsterdam Rokin 112, The Netherlands
Exhibition from January 14 - January 29, 2012
Hours: 12-6 pm all week except Mondays
Maarten van der Heijden has become a member of Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam. The Saloon 2012 features one of his works: 'Ecce Homo #1'. More information available here.
Ellen Holtzblatt, Song of the Land
Reception: February 23, 2012, 5-7 PM
Hebrew Union College - Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibition from January 20, 2012 to May 31, 2012
Annual Juried Exhibition of the Jewish Women Artists Network, a special interest group within the Women's Caucus for Art. More information available here.
Rudy Cremonini, la vita la vediamo a memoria-We See Life Off By Heart
Opening January 22, 2012 at 11.30 a.m. through February 26. Jewish Museum Bologna , Italy
Here then is a series of old cardboard suitcases on which he paints a "portrait gallery": elusive, lost, almost consumed by the same art that elaborates it. Thus, names and faces, says Cremonini himself, mirror each other, as if to suppress a look which instead tends to move away or get lost beyond the hurried 'tourism of memory. "
More information available here
Art Exhibit Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art
Opening on Friday, 27th January 2012, 11:00 a.m.
Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel.
The first Israeli museum exhibition of Jewish feminist art by women who come from a traditional Jewish background. Several of the artists: Helène Aylon, Mierle Laderman-Ukeles, Carol Hamoy, Jacqueline Nicholls, Andi Arnovitz, Ruth Kestenbaum Ben Dov, Ruth Schreiber.
More information available here.
Mark Podwal
Podwal's design for the new Reform Haggadah to be published mid to late February 2012.
Ahron Weiner
Cycles of Violence was recently profiled in Transatlantica, a French Journal of American Studies.
Interview with the artist can be seen at the following link http://transatlantica.revues.
Mark Podwal's work in the NY Jewish Week. "Jewish Art That's Skin Deep".
Mark Podwal's video on his Prague textiles at the Y.U. Museum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzKIgqBofkU
LIFE STORY: Artist - Archie Rand on CUNY TV. Michael Stoler "Building New York - New York Life Stories". Will debut on Monday, November 21st on CUNY TV, Channel 75 Time Warner, Channel 77 RCN
Mark Podwal
· The Metropolitan Museum commissioned Podwal’s Hanukkah card, which just was published.
· The Met Opera just published its first Jewish note card for which they commissioned Mark Podwal.
· The Met Opera just published his limited edition giclee print for its fall production of NABUCCO.
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