Do artists have a responsibility to address social issues? If they do, can their creativity motivate us to heal our world? Two exhibitions at the Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York offer new artistic responses to these questions.
Creating a Jewish arts space in Brooklyn.
What rituals, practices or stories from your Jewish life would you want to see preserved in the far-off future?
“I hope my work will survive for generations so that in the future people will understand that there was resistance.”
For Benjamin, and most feminists who have adopted (or adapted) Lilith in art or literature, the mythological first wife of Adam stands as an icon of independence and courage
Carmel Tanaka on the power and celebration of the “in between.”
An idea was born to create a space specifically for Jewish Artists of Color to come together—a closed conversation that would be welcoming and safe, informal and intentional.
Group members have created 20 boxes, each containing five small pieces of original art that are exchanged for a donation.
This year, on December 16th and 17th, we are hosting Illumination: A Chanukah Celebration of Devotional Arts and Embodied Prayer.
A novel that traces the fraught journey of Leonardo de Vinci’s famous <em>Lady with the Ermine</em>, and how this priceless work of art was ultimately saved from the Nazis. </p>
