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“An Open Invitation Back to Judaism”: Actor Nemuna Ceesay on Passover and Embracing Her Jewish Roots
Nemuna Ceesay and Rabbi Kendell Pinkney at The Workshop’s Memory Seder. Image courtesy of the author. For this issue of the CANVAS Compendium, we’re excited to turn the keys over to Nemuna Ceesay, a recent alum of The Workshop, a CANVAS grantee network centering...
The New Jewish Culture Fellowship: Nurturing the Jewish Avant Garde
Ceramic horns by Julia Elsas, a 2018 NJCF fellow. The horns are her reimagining of the ugav, a mysterious Biblical wind instrument. Image courtesy of the artist. Don’t miss Material/Inheritance: Contemporary Work by New Jewish Culture...
How to Pitch Jewish Arts and Culture Stories (and Everything Else)
As the editor of the CANVAS Compendium, the most frequent question I hear from CANVAS grantees is about getting Jewish arts and culture–focused stories into the media—for example, how to “pitch” an upcoming exhibition or performance. The question comes from people...
Artists on Artists: Tiffany Shlain
This week on the CANVAS Compendium, another installment of Artists on Artists, when we turn over the keys to an artist we admire to tell us about the Jewish artists they admire. This time it’s Tiffany Shlain, an acclaimed artist and Reboot alum.North...