Jewish Art Salon at The Jewish Museum

Verwer introducing her "Kabbalah of Bling" series

Salon members Shoshannah Brombacher and Yona Verwer presented at the NY Jewish Museum Monday November 7.

Brombacher discussed the Dutch Sephardic Community and Verwer discussed Dutch Jewish Art Today (including her own) and the Jewish Art Salon.

Years ago the museum featured the exhibit Jewish Women and their Salons. It emphasized the role salons have played in shaping culture, by promoting art that was not shown in regular venues. Similarly the Jewish Art Salon has become a trailblazer for many Jewish artists by providing exhibition opportunities and  networking events.

Shoshannah Brombacher & Yona Verwer presenting at the Jewish Museum

Two Jewish Art Salon members, Shoshannah Brombacher and Yona Verwer, will be presenting at the Jewish Museum. 

Brombacher will discuss The Portuguese (Marano) Jewish Community in 17th century Amsterdam; and Gravestone inscriptions at Bet Haim cemetery.

Verwer will speak about The Jewish Art Salon, her own art, and Dutch Jewish art today.

Travel U: The Jews of The Netherlands Monday November 7, 2011 Learn the little-known history of Jewish communities in The Netherland from the Renaissance to present day.

Speakers include: Dr. Jane Gerber, Director, Institute for Sephardic Studies, City University of New York Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary Janice Meyerson, Mezzo-soprano Dr. Shoshannah Brombacher, Artist, author, academic researcher, and Maggida Dr. Marc Michael Epstein, Professor of Religion, Vassar Salomon L. Vaz Dias Cantor Josee Wolff Yona Verwer, Artist and President, Jewish Art Salon

Shoshannah Brombacher's Sukkot Exhibit

Shoshannah Brombacher – “The Fish Tremble in the Sea” - Works about the High Holidays & Sukkot.

Opening October 18, 7pm. 

Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 E 6 St (betw 1 & 2 Ave), New York, NY 10003. Tel: 212-473-3665.

http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/

Artists 4 Israel: "Response Art Series" & "Terror: Artists Respond"

By Richard McBee.




Date: Wednesday, August 31 2011 

Terror: Artists Respond

September 18 - October 2, 2011 
- Opening September 18; 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Shofar Project Flash Mob - 1:15pm see http://web.me.com/yvf/Terror/Images.html

Dershowitz Center Gallery: Industry City - 220 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY

There is a short list of things that really matter: family, friends, country and faith the most.  For many Jews, our people and Israel occupy an almost sacred place in the order of commitment and passion.  Therefore, when either the Jewish people or the legitimacy of the State of Israel are attacked and slandered, we react passionately.  In a visceral way these things are crucial to the very core of our identity. How do contemporary Jewish artists respond?

The answer is emphatically provided by two exhibitions in September at the Dershowitz Center Gallery at Industry City (Bush Terminal) in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn.  The Response Art Series created by Sheryl Intrator and Artists 4 Israel has challenged New York area artists to create works that support Israel's right to exist in peace and security.  All of the works are newly created and are in response to a recent series of pro-Israel lectures, panel discussions and the Fogel family memorial service at Congregation Kehillat Jeshurun in Manhattan. 

Terror: Artists Respond solicited an international group of artists to submit works that reflect their reaction to terror attacks in the ten years since 9/11.  Both shows demonstrate the passionate response of Jewish artists to these dual threats: accusations of illegitimacy and random violence and murder.  The result is moving, creative and devastating.

Growing Under Concrete, photograph (28 x 42), by Dan Keinan

Courtesy: Terror: Artists Respond

Continue reading here.

9-11 Memorial Exhibit at Freyberger Gallery & Reading JCC, PA

Part I: Crisis and Reaction.
September 11- October 20. Opening Reception September 11, 5:30 - 8:30 pm.
More info: 610-921-0624

Shoshannah Brombacher, Jacob Mezrahi, Sandra Indig, Yona Verwer, David Wander and Laurie Wohl are salon members participating in Part I of the exhibit.