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.
The Jewish Street Art Festival presented a series of murals as a part of Dwelling in a Time of Plagues, a coast-to-coast Jewish artistic response to contemporary plagues. The works for Dwelling in a Time of Plagues reinterpret the themes of Passover in response to our times.