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JEWISH WOMEN ARTISTS' NETWORK (JWAN)

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we are pleased to inform you that we have secured the beverly arts center of chicago the 2010 chicago JWAN/WCA exhibit, drawing the line. the exhibition dates are february 5 - March 6, 2010.  we are planning the artists reception sunday feb 14 and need to commit to a time slot with the BAC.

please advise what if any WCA events are in place at this time for sunday feb 14.  we want to be sure to coordinate our schedules and have the JWAN reception on the WCA and CAA program and itinerary. We are considering time slots between 10AM - 4PM depending on the best flow and agenda of the overall conference. do you have a site yet for the WCA sunday meeting/confab? do you want to consider the BAC?

the beverly arts center is in the mount greenwood and beverly section which is on the south side of chicago. it is about 15- 20 minutes from the downtown loop in chicago.

PAST EVENTS

2009
Annual Juried Exhibition ---- February 22 - April 5, 2009
Like Water on Rock
Platt/Borstein Galleries at the American Jewish University
(formerly The University of Judaism)
Los Angeles, California
Artists’ Reception: March 1, 2009

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2008
In the Beginning, the current National Juried Exhibition at The Women's Museum in Dallas is sponsored by the Jewish Women Artists' Network (JWAN), a special interest group within the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA). The Call to Artists elicited a great diversity of thought and visual expression from women artists around the country. Artists referenced the Biblical story of Creation as the ultimate Beginning. They also looked at beginnings/endings from the personal perspective; each viewing her own situation, disappointments, loss and grief, or joy in finding hope, spiritual renewal, and the opportunity to create a new beginning. The Exhibition Organizers and Co-Chairs, Fay Grajower, Boston and Simone Soltan, Chapel Hill, NC, are working artists who have teamed up to organize and facilitate national exhibitions for JWAN. The two organized JWAN's 2007 exhibit, words within, at the Kraft Center at Columbia University in New York City, that traveled to the Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University Hillel for an additional two months. A full color catalogue accompanies the exhibition. The current exhibit of 21 artists and 42 works is on view through April 27, 2008

Pictures of the exhibition are at: http://www.kodakgallery.com/

2005
"Tikkun Olam: To Repair the World" at the Main Street Gallery at The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA)-- January 18 - March 28.
The juried exhibition of seventeen pieces created by twelve members of the Jewish Women Artists' Network was held in conjunction with the National WCA Conference in Atlanta, 2005. The exhibition was a stop on the WCA Conference Gallery Tour.

jwan-atlanta
Left to right:
Laurie Wohl (Unweaving, Mixed Media); Beth Shadur (Watercolor and Acrylic); Ruth Katz (Series of Giclee Prints); Jennifer Judelson (Pen and Primacolor Pencil); Beatrice Schall (photographic images); Kat Grossman (watercolor paper in compact); Susan Makin (oil) and Flora Rosefsky (Mixed Media Collage).

jwan-atlanta
Exhibition view

Tikkun Olam – Healing the World

Tikkun Olam, or repairing the world through social action, can be traced to classical rabbinic literature and Lurianic Kabbalah, a major strand of Jewish mysticism originating with the work of the 16th-century Kabbalist Isaac Luria. The Jewish tradition teaches that it is up to us to help heal the world and bring the sparks of G-d together through our actions. Jews have interpreted Tikkun Olam in modern life as an involvement in social and political issues, and many American Jewish artists have used these themes in their work.

“How do we repair the world? As artists, we make visual statements to communicate with our audience. We hope to engage others in events, problems and dilemmas to be solved. Through confrontation with issues difficult to face - the artist becomes an instrument of political change.” Marcia Annenberg - presenting artist

"Tikkun Olam" at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York
April 14th - May 15th, 2005
Organized and curated by Karin Luner and Robin Schatell/urban arts productions with the generous help of the Makor Staff, Stephen Arnoff, and Anat Litwin. This exhibition was largely sponsored by a grant from the Puffin Foundation. Special thanks as well to Ethel Young and Leonard Stark for their contributions.

jwan-makor
eft to right:
Laurie Wohl: Wing, unweaving®, m/m, 1995
Barbara Rae Schaefer: The Copper Scroll, oil on canvas, 2003
Ellen Hanauer: Come Together, mixed media , 2001
Marcia Annenberg: Housewife, acrylic on canvas, 1995
Flora Rosefsky: Life Chapters, mixed media collage, 2004
(far right)