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The HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) is now accepting applications for our 2013 Artist-in-Residence Program. This residency provides artists the opportunity to be in residence at Brandeis University while working on a significant artistic project in the field of Jewish women’s and gender studies, and to produce an exhibit for the Kniznick Gallery at the Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis University. The residency will be 3 – 4 weeks in length, and will take place in March. The exhibit will immediately follow and be on view for a minimum of 8 weeks.
Application deadline
October 15, 2012
- In: Call for Entries
- Tags: Boston
To view the full gallery of images from the event, visit the Flickr page here.
Perched atop a residential skyscraper in New York City, twelve emerging artists from across the Judeo-religious and geographic landscape shared their work in an engaging event presented by Jewish Art Now and Bridging the Gap. The evening included a full scale exhibition, presentations and demonstrations from the artists, a pop-up shop of unique art ephemera, and interactive umbrella art, open to all attending.
This one night exhibition, titled Sky Gallery for its location in a panoramic rooftop lounge on Wall Street transformed into a gallery space, was curated and produced by Jewish Art Now whose mission it is to promote and innovate contemporary Jewish art around the world. Husband and wife team Saul & Elke Reva Sudin, working artists in their own regard, operate Jewish Art Now and with Sky Gallery they assembled a diverse and passionate group to exhibit, mostly working in two dimensions. Sky Gallery raised funds for this exciting initiative and to support emerging artists working in Jewish themes.
Their co-organizer Bridging the Gap is a fellowship that brings together students from different demographics and religious levels to share in experiences and events. They cultivate themselves as a connective tissue between Russian, American, and Sephardic communities from a variety of college campuses in New York. Bridging the Gap’s Director Tanya Gutsol took the initiative to spearhead this event because, as she told us, “It is important for students to raise awareness of the arts in Jewish communities, and how it can bring diverse communities together.” Utilizing student volunteers under the direction of Gutsol, this was the first arts & culture fundraiser that the fellows of Bridging the Gap have organized, and the event found itself as unique in location and attendance as it was to the day on which it was held.
By Saul Sudin
Darren Aronofsky’s dreams are finally coming true. As he tweeted recently, production is underway on his film adaptation of the Torah’s story of Noach, a project he has ambitiously hoped to make since his Bar Mitzvah. The filmmaker behind Pi, The Fountain, and the Academy Award-winning Black Swan is taking a radical (by Hollywood standards) approach to the source material by going beyond the literal King James Bible text that most western societies are familiar with and delving into Rabbinic commentaries and Midrashic embellishments to round out a more intense, contemporary-feeling retelling. Our sages teach that no part of the Torah is mere history, but is meant to have a continually modern application. Aronofksy’s Noah seeks to play in that sandbox.
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- Tags: Art as Midrash, Film, Graphic Novels
Call for Entries: Golden Ghetto Award
15 Jul2012
The V
enice Center of Jewish Arts (VCJA), is proud to announce the first international art Jewish art competition, the Golden Ghetto Award (GGA). This will be is the most important competition of its kind in Italy, and is one of the few awards offered for Jewish art around the world.
Deadline: October 17, 2012
Prize: $2,500-$3,000 USD
The artists selected for the final exhibition will receive a certificate and recognition. Artists in all visual mediums, as well as new media and performance art, are welcome to apply.
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- Tags: Europe
Jewish Art Now and Bridging the Gap are coming together for a one night gallery event featuring emerging Jewish artists from throughout New York.
Join the emerging Jewish art scene at the at the gorgeous rooftop lounge at 75 Wall Street in lower Manhattan. Enjoy a 360 view of the city while experiencing the featured artists and live presentations, and get a more interactive look at what these artists are doing and what makes them tick.
All artwork will be for sale with proceeds benefiting the artists and Jewish Art Now’s initiative to support contemporary Jewish art. Light refreshments will be served.
Thursday July 26, 2012
7-10:30pm
75 Wall St, New York, NY
(Enter on Pearl St, residential entrance, and take the back left elevator to the top floor)
$5 online/$8 door | Purchase tickets here.
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Featured Artists
Cher Landman, of Be-Sher-Et designs
Rutie Borthwick, special guest in from London
Ariana Nehmad
Vitaly Umansky
Rivka Nehorai
Sara Erenthal
Chezi Gerin
Valentina Loseva
Inessa Royt
Rufina Gilkarov
Bess Rappel
Rita Kheyfets
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“Lashon Hara” mixed media works by Robin Atlas
10 Jul2012
July 9th – August 13th, 2012
Slutzky Art Gallery at the Merage JCC
One Federation Way
Irvine, CAÂ 98603
Tel:Â 949 435-3400
Gallery Hours: M-F 8:30 – 5, Sat. 9 – 5, Sun. 9 – 6
Our Words Have Great Power
The prohibitions of lashon hara* are among the most fundamental and oft-overlooked tenets of Halacic law. Eminent rabbinical scholars have discussed, written and codified what is and what is not proper speech. This body of work explores the progeny of the seeds of lashon hara, and their impact on the spiritual realm and the physical universe.  These deconstructed pieces combine hand dyed collaged fabric which have been embroidered and machine stitched and incorporate paper, paint, trim, and beadwork.
*Lashon Hara: the halakhic term for derogatory speech about another person; literally translated means “evil tongueâ€. The Chofitz Chaim writes that there are 31 specific prohibitions against Lashon Hara in the Torah.- In: Events
- Tags: California
Hidden Text Messages
28 Jun2012
 A review of the Text Messages: Recent Work by Joshua Abarbanel exhibiting at the Zena and Pauline Gatov Gallery at the Alpert Jewish Community Center of Long Beach from June 1–July 15, 2012.
“Judaism has always regarded Hebrew as a sacred language, the medium of divine communication. For millennia, its sages and mystics have taught that the letters are no ordinary vehicle of expression. Indeed, the very word for letter in Hebrew—Ot— also means sign or wonder: that is, a heavenly revelation.â€Â – Edward Hoffman, The Hebrew Alphabet: A Mystical Journey
In Text Messages, artist Joshua Abarbanel offers a series of nine intricately composed works that reflect on the relationship between Hebrew text and consciousness, exploring the visual metaphor of what is hidden and what is revealed. For this body of work, Abarbanel layers digital art, paper cuts, and other materials, manipulating Hebrew letters to create patterns and other motifs that both expose and hide the text, reflecting the artist’s own relationship with Hebrew. The works explore the mystery of the letter in its liturgical context—wherein the words can provide an access point into a greater level of understanding and connection—while at the same time acknowledging that the text can also act like a veil that conceals.
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Digital Art, LA, Typography
Hamsa Dore, 2007. Printing on transparencies; metallic overprinting;
handwritten text; gold, crystal, glass beading; moonofilament. 5 3/4″ x 4″
“Silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around… My responsibility (is) that of asking questions instead of making choices.”
So were the words and approach of composer, artist, and music theorist John Cage (related after an experiment of venturing into the anechoic chamber of Harvard University), whose guidance Claire Jeanine Satin received in the pivotal year of 1979, when she came face to face with the man whose I-Ching inspired philosophy profoundly impacted her own artistic outlook. Years earlier, in 1952, Cage had performed his controversial piece (especially for those who had paid to attend the concert) entitled ” 4’33’ “, which consisted of four minutes and thirty three seconds of him sitting on the piano bench but not playing. As Cage argued, “There is no such thing as silence, there is always something that makes a sound.” The music, from his perspective, was not silence at all, but rather the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during the “performance”.
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Frum Female Underground Films
4 Jun2012
A spate of Orthodox women are turning to filmmaking (some restrictions apply)
By Sara Trapper Spielman for TabletMag | May 30, 2012 7:00 AM
From the trailer of Lara Gedzelman’s film The Chairlady. (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original stills via Vimeo.)
One afternoon this past winter, I waited at a café in Boro Park for Yuta Silverman, an ambitious young filmmaker who lives in the neighborhood. Although I had watched four of her films in one week, I didn’t know what to expect. But when a beautiful red-haired woman entered with a beaming smile and an open, friendly face, I immediately recognized her as the star of Sheffield’s Manor, a film about a group of girls hiding in a Red-Cross house during the Holocaust that she wrote a few years ago in only three days and produced at almost no cost.
Call for Submissions – Mural, Painting or Mixed Media
Summer 2012
Deadline: June 20, 2012
Urban Adamah, a non-profit community farm and Jewish environmental education center in West Berkeley, California, seeks proposals for the creation of an original piece of art to be installed at the entrance of our farm.
Guidelines
The art installation should be inspired by the core Jewish agricultural holidays of Passover, Shavuot and/or Sukkot, and explore aspects of these holidays’ political, agricultural, social and/or cultural history. The piece should also be informed by Urban Adamah’s core values of chessed (kindess), tzedakah (justice) and ahava (love).
The winning piece of art will be installed on the side of our office building, which directly faces the entrance to the farm. Therefore, the space is most conducive to a painting or mural, but we are open to considering other proposals. The work must be flat, able to be installed to the front wall of our office building and waterproof.
The allotted space for the art installation is approximately 18 feet wide by 7 feet high, although the piece does not have to take up the entire space. The installation could also be created on one or more panels. Proposals for the reproduction of a current artwork or new concepts will be considered.
Artist Prize
The selected artist will receive $720.
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