For Tal by Chava Evans

Chava Evans is a board member of the Jewish Art Salon.
Her intriguing internal dialog on art and orthodoxy is featured on JewishIdeas.org:

A fellow art student—we’ll call him Tal—once described to me how it felt to wear a skirt for the first time—jubilant, liberated, correct, and uncomfortable. The skirt exposed a deep truth; but even as he felt whole, wearing a skirt meant sacrificing the convenient comportment he had once used as a shield. Since he had always been an unassuming person, the stares took some getting used to. Tal worried that wearing a skirt was overly flamboyant; he didn’t want to be a drag queen, he just wanted to be a gay man who wore a skirt. His conclusion, and I have thought of this often, was that joyously idiosyncratic behavior is almost always viewed as extravagant, whether it presents as a man wearing a skirt or a woman wearing a headscarf.

Continue article here: http://www.jewishideas.org/articles/tal

Global Day Online Art Exhibit by Jewish Art Salon

Jewish Art Salon members Chava Evans, Elke Reva Sudin and Yona Verwer created and juried two online exhibits which will be projected at 200 locations in 40 countries November 13th, 2011.


The Global Day of Jewish Learning was conceived to mark the completion of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s monumental translation on the Talmud. The inaugural 2010 Global Day reached every corner of the Jewish world and brought Jews across the spectrum of beliefs and backgrounds together in a day of study and unity.

Shema! features the winning artwork of high school students in the US and Israel.  The art includes a broad range of approaches, from quietly contemplative photography to exuberant paintings. Media includes photography, digital media, painting and drawing.  The gallery was created in partnership between RAVSAK, Jewish Art Salon, Jewish Art Now, and the Global Day of Jewish Learning. View Shema! on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/31790497

Global/Local, open to all Jewish artists, invited submissions that explored the visual texture and vocabulary of the artists’ particular Jewish communities. The work deals with themes of isolation, integration, social and ethnic exchange and modification within communities. The gallery was created in partnership between the Jewish Art Salon and Jewish Art Now, in honor of the Global Day of Jewish Learning. View Global/Local on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/31788989

Closing Reception & Artists Talk at Terror: Artists Respond

Terror: Artists Respond
CLOSING RECEPTION 
Sunday October 2, 1:00- 2:30 pm
1:45 - 2:15pm - The curators and selected artists will discuss the work in the exhibit.

Industry City Gallery.
220 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232
between 2 & 3 Ave; N, R & D train to 36 St
(Connect via the 2, 3, 4, 5, B and Q at Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street)

Terror: Artists Respond marks the ten-year anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers and explores the range of psychological, social, and global ramifications of living in the age of terrorism. The work of American and Israeli artists includes photography, painting, installation, and objets d'art. The collection entire highlights the disquietude of life lived in the long shadow of terror. Each piece offers a meditative counterpoint to news-ticker journalism’s quick and constant evocation of the last, current or imminent attack.

Terror: Artists Respond

Art Exhibit and Performances

More info here