Mike Wirth is a street artist, graphic designer, and an associate professor of art based in Charlotte, NC. His work reflects his blended Jewish upbringing and his experience of adulthood in the American South through pop art inspired Jewish iconography and typography.
The Jewish Street Art Festival returned to its original vision for 2025, with murals painted across Orange County, California. Presented by Weissman Arts, a project of the Jewish Community Foundation Orange County, and partnering with institutions around Orange County, the 2025 Festival brought together Jewish artists from around the US and Israel to paint. The […]
Louis Barak is an Israeli American Jewish artist based in Chicago, known for his vibrant paintings, murals, and tattoos that celebrate Jewish identity and history with a modern flair. His art aims to challenge perceptions and educate others about Judaism and Israel, while his personal journey has deepened his connection to his heritage.
Alexander Golob is a Jewish and Italian first-generation public artist with a practice rooted in joy, dialogue, curiosity, and technical experimentation. Golob’s work uses materials like wood, metal, and paint to explore social dynamics, traditional craft, complicated histories, and layered meanings.
Adam Podber is a full time artist and muralist operating out of Southwest Atlanta, concentrating on modern, clean, and bold murals as well as signage and logo work. With a product design background, he enjoys the design process and makes sure all of his work not only fits the space but is executed cleanly with an attention to detail.
Havtacha (Promise) by Mike Wirth at The Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice, Queens University of Charlotte highlights the struggle that individuals face on a daily basis on the streets brought on the pandemic and other systematic plagues that befall the Queen City.
Bareket Kezwer’s mural “Both&” at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre in Toronto inspires us to consider the plague of binary thinking. Passover is a holiday celebrating the duality of freedom and slavery, a time when we intentionally hold the paradox of life—the inseparability and interdependence of seemingly contradictory phenomena.
JCC Harlem – 318 W 118th St, New York, NY 10026 Current circumstances have exacerbated the existing crisis of food insecurity in this country. Meanwhile, an unexpected consequence of the pandemic has been reconnecting us to how and what we eat as we spend more time at home. In Hillel Smith’s paired murals, What Sustains Us, […]
Hillel Smith’s paired murals at Repair The World NYC and JCC Harlem, What Sustains Us, offer fun and whimsical encouragement to think about all that connects our bodies to what we eat.
Combining decorative details that adorned the walls and ceilings of now vanished wooden synagogues with her dancing body and the Unicorn, an ancient symbol of death and rebirth, Maya’s mural project at New York’s 14th St. Y and video installation “This Place Has a Body,” creates new fantastical spaces out of the residue of loss of what came before.