THE ARTIST AS MUSE AT CAJM 2013 This month, we take off from our 2013 conference theme, The City as Muse/um, to focus an entire issue on the ways that artists will enliven our annual gathering (March 3-5, 2012 in New York City). Your full conference brochure will arrive in the next couple of weeks. Until then, this should help you begin to imagine the possibilities ahead. |
AN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Throughout the conference, CAJM's first Artist-in-Residence, Liana Finck, will document program sessions and participants with her witty cartoons. Finck, a frequent contributor to Tablet magazine, is a graphic novelist whose latest project is The Bintel Brief, a website and monthly zine based on the classic Yiddish Forward column of the same name. The artist's images will be assembled into an ever-changing exhibit throughout the conference. More about her involvement below.
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BREAK FOR ART
A new conference innovation, the Art Burst, will showcase emerging Jewish artists who have been inspired by the urban environment. Making Art in the Metropolis features four Israeli artists who live in New York. Curated by Lilly Wei, the program will present the work of sculptor Ohad Meromi (left), photographer Inbal Abergil (center), video artist Tom Pnini, and painter Naomi Safran-Hon. Los Angeles cartographer-micrographer Corrie Siegel (right) is leading a workshop called Re-Mapping the City, in which participants will create their own interpretive maps of real or imagined cities. |
CREATIVE COLLABORATORS
The engagement of these artists in the conference is made possible through the generous cooperation of several cultural partners. Liana Finck and Corrie Siegel are recipients of Six Points Fellowships. Six Points is itself a partnership of Avoda Arts, JDub Records, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture. The four Israeli artists are joining us through the efforts of Artis and its director, Yael Reinharz. This dynamic organization supports and promotes contemporary visual artists from Israel internationally. (Tote bag designed by Gabriela Vainsencher) |
CAJM Puts the Spotlight on You
CAJM offers resources for learning all year round on our website and at our annual conference; models professional standards; offers opportunities for information exchange; and works on behalf of Jewish museums and museums with Jewish content. One of them is the museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York, which is hosting a CAJM reception and viewing of their exhibition The Sexuality Spectrum (images l. and r.). See what other Jewish museums are presenting across North America by visiting CAJM's At Our Museums page. |
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