Jewish Art Now founders Elke and Saul Sudin presented “Jewish Art Now: Unifying Efforts For A Global Community” at the Conney Conference on Jewish Art 2015. In this presentation, they describe their journey in the contemporary arts scene, claiming what they call a Diverse Unapologetic Identity as their approach to being Jewish and Artists.
The Conney Conference is part of the Conney Project on Jewish Arts at the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their tenth conference year took place for the first time in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California. The theme was “Jewish/American/Israeli: Intertwined Identities in the Contemporary Arts and Humanities.â€