Elke Sudin's art at the BoCoCa Arts Festival

Works from Elke Sudin’s urban landscape series. 


Opening Tuesday June 26, 6-8 pm.
YWCA, 30 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY


The BoCoCa Arts Festival is an annual 10-day long festival in the BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens) area of Brooklyn that supports and showcases the highest works of music, theater, visual and performing art. Emerging artists of multiple disciplines are cast in unconventional neighborhood venues.


On view from June 22nd till June 30th, 2012

HBI Artist-In-Residency Program - Spring 2013

The HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) is now accepting applications for their 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

Application guidelines: http://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/
Contact: Debby Olins at dolins@brandeis.edu
A decision will be announced by November 8, 2012

HBI Research Grants

The HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) awards grants to support interdisciplinary research or artistic projects on Jewish women and gender issues. Scholars, activists, writers and artists who are pursuing research on questions of significance to the field of Jewish women's studies may apply. Applications from outside the United States (in English) are welcome. There is no residency requirement.

Application deadline: September 13, 2012

Application guidelines: http://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/
Contact: Debby Olins at dolins@brandeis.edu
Applicants chosen to receive funding will be notified in December, 2012

Destination Shanghai - Exhibit curated by Renata Stein

David L. Bloch, Self Portrait in a Rickshaw, watercolor, 1943

Destination Shanghai: The Jewish Community of Shanghai, 1936-1949 is on view at the Leo Baeck Institute Gallery, 15 West 16th St, NYC, till October 30, 2012. 
 
Shanghai was the last refuge for almost 20,000 German and Austrian Jews between 1936 and 1941, the last place they could go without visas. Most were ill-prepared, but despite adverse circumstances, they were able to establish synagogues, a burial society, an educational system and numerous cultural institutions. Concerts, theater performances, art exhibitions, fashion shows and literary readings provided distraction from the daily deprivations. By 1949, when the People’s Republic of China was founded, the majority of Jewish refugees had left Shanghai. This exhibition brings together rare archival documents, photos, artwork, as well as books printed in China. 

More info here

Seeking Art for Online Journal

Bara Sapir, art director of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture at www.zeek.net is looking for art.

Periodically, Zeek 'hosts' an open call to put together art together for upcoming issues. If you'd like Zeek to consider your art, please send a link to your website. Do not send images. If interested in your work, Zeek will be in touch with you. This is to add to our archive of artists, so if you don't hear from them immediately, it just means that they're busy.

Miriam Stern: PCNJ Member Exhibition

Reconfigured IV, 15 x 22 in

Opening Reception: June 23 2012 2-4 PM

Location: 440 River Rd., Branchburg, NJ
Duration: June 23-August 11
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10-4 PM

Miriam is exhibiting monoprints or unique prints in this group show called "Legacy."

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Marisa Scheinfeld - Ruins of the Borscht Belt

A ghostly chaise at Grossinger’s, rubble at the Concord, and other photos of once-great Catskills resorts

I grew up in “the mountains” or, as others called it, “the country”—as if no other mountain or country existed. In fact, it was Sullivan County, N.Y., about 90 miles northwest of New York City and an area of the Catskills centered on the town of Monticello that from the 1920s through the 1970s represented a retreat for millions of city-dwellers, predominantly Jewish American. The locale was first developed in the late 1800s with tanneries, lumberyards, and farms that eventually became boarding houses and hotels. In large part this was a result of the emergence of sanitariums for fresh-air treatment of tuberculosis at the turn of the century. From these foundations, a tourist region was born that, by virtue of its proximity to New York, and its vast recreational opportunities—skiing, ice-skating, swimming in its lakes and countless pools—became the prime destination for hundreds of thousands of newly middle-class Jewish vacationers. The region peaked in the 1950s and ’60s and came to be known as the Borscht Belt. 

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Mizel Museum Israel trip and scholarships

The Mizel Museum in Denver is offering 3 partial scholarships for their trip to Israel! Write, sing, draw, sculpt, or tell them why you should be a lucky recipient. See the latest blog entry on one of the featured sites of the itinerary, the Gesher Theater.

If you are ready to register now for this once in a lifetime trip, they have easy on-line registration. Details are provided on the site.

For more info contact Georgina Kolber, Curator of Exhibits, Programs and Collections at gkolber@mizelmuseum.org

http://mizelmuseum.org/

Nudity was conspicuous in Renaissance Jewish books by Menachem Wecker

I still remember what David Quammen, the director of the D.C. Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgetown, told me back in the summer of 2006, when I interviewed him about an exhibit of erotic art for NY Arts magazine. 

“If some people had their way, we’d be all bundled up with only our noses sticking out,” he said. Then, pausing for a minute, he decided that even that wouldn’t fly for some folks. “They might see the noses as too similar to penises,” he concluded.

The illustrations on the title page of a book of religious responsa (titled Shailoth U’Teshuvoth, literally “questions and answers”) by the rabbi Asher Ben Yechiel (1250 or 1259 – 1327) aren’t nearly as pornographic as the works in Quammen’s 2006 exhibit. But the 1607 book, which is lot 303 in the upcoming auction at Kestenbaum & Co. in New York, may surprise some readers.

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