JEWISH WOMEN ARTISTS' NETWORK (JWAN)
CURRENT EVENTS
Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th St., Chicago, IL 60655
http://beverlyartcenter.org/gallery.php
Exhibit: Feb. 5-Mar. 6
Meet the Artists: Sunday, Feb. 14, 2-4pm
JWAN, (Jewish Women Artists; Network), a sub caucus within the National
WCA (Women's Caucus for Art) presents, Drawing the Line - featuring 25 artists
from around the United States.
Drawing the Line reveals the multifaceted nature of line-making both in formal
terms and based on a conceptual interpretation. The wide variety of images
and approaches featured here speaks to the line’s artistic versatility.
The simplicity of the line inspires a complexity of interpretive possibilities.
Exhibiting artists: Gloria Askin, Marilyn Banner, Catherine
Cajandig, Emily Corbato, Anne Doris-Eisner, Sally Duback, Harriet Finck,
Karen Frostig, Fay Grajower, Susan Harmon, Wendy Sue Lamm, Rona Lesser, KA
Letts, Dale Osterle, Margaret Parker, Roxanne Phillips, Launa Romoff, Patricia
Schappler, Debbie Schore, Beth Shadur, Lorre Slaw, Simone Soltan, Cynthia
Vascak, Karen Weyandt and Marian Yap.
Juror- Sarah Giller Nelson, Art Historian, Chicago, IL
Exhibition Co-Chairs –Fay Grajower, Boston, MA and Simone
Soltan, Chapel Hill, NC
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
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.
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).
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.
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)