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Boston Trifecta: CANVAS celebrates 3 years of grantmaking, $3 million in total giving, and 3 regional organizations modeling a future for Jewish arts and culture
Members of the CANVAS Board, Executive Committee, and Review Committee at Lehrhaus. Dear Reader, You know those moments? The kind when you find yourself in a group text study of R.B. Kitaj’s Second Diasporist Manifesto, wondering about what a 21st century Jewish art...
“Nurturing What She Left Behind”: How The Jewish Book Council Supported a Posthumous Memoir and Its Crucial Message for Public Health
Mallory Smith and Diane Shader Smith in 2017. Photo courtesy Diane Shader Smith. Jewish arts and culture is a powerful vehicle for investigating Judaism and Jewish identities. It can also resonate in unexpected ways. We asked Diane Shader Smith to...
Artists on Artists: The Eclectic Inspirations of Jeremy Dauber
We’re delighted to bring CANVAS Compendium readers another installment of Artists on Artists, when a creative Jewish person whom we admire talks about the creative Jewish people they admire. This time it’s Jeremy Dauber, a writer, historian, and the Atran...
Introducing the Global Jewish Literary Alliance!
A new Jewish arts and culture organization has launched, and we at CANVAS want to share our excitement. The Global Jewish Literary Alliance (GJLA) looks to provide community and resources for Jewish writers and writers on topics of Jewish...