Jean Bloch Rosensaft
A champion of women’s rights, social justice, and Jewish culture, Weissman’s wonderful art collection is now on view at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum.
A Legacy of Mildred Weissman’s Delight in Art
Tag: Art
Behold Feminine Power!
Jean Bloch Rosensaft
“Activate: A New York Woman’s Perspective,” now at he Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, explores multifaceted expressions of feminine power amidst complex and fraught socio-political dynamics tied to bodies and heritage, intimacy and otherness, sex and religion.
Diane Mehta’s Miniaturist Poetry
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Mehta’s poems are miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.
Can Art Change the World?
Jean Bloch Rosensaft
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.
Where Art and Judaism Crossover (in Brooklyn)
Mikhal Weiner
Creating a Jewish arts space in Brooklyn.
Looking Back from an Imaginary Future, Through Art
Evelyn Tauben
What rituals, practices or stories from your Jewish life would you want to see preserved in the far-off future?
Arlene Rush Pushes Artistic Boundaries
Eleanor J. Bader
“I hope my work will survive for generations so that in the future people will understand that there was resistance.”
Siona Benjamin Paints Lilith of the Present
Samantha Baskind
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
Community Engagement as Art
Devyani Saltzman
Carmel Tanaka on the power and celebration of the “in between.”
Jewish Artists of Color: A Candid Conversation
Fentster Gallery
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.