by CANVAS Staff | Mar 26, 2021 | Compendium, News
CANVAS works to achieve a 21st-century Jewish cultural renaissance through grantmaking, advocacy, and education. The brand-new CANVAS Compendium is part of this effort — a newsletter designed to convey the highest quality and remarkable diversity of contemporary...
by CANVAS Staff | Mar 24, 2021 | News
At a session of the Jewish Funders Network’s 2021 International Conference, Hyperallergic Editor Hrag Vartanian facilitated a discussion asking some of the biggest investors in Jewish arts and culture: Why do we invest in Jewish arts and culture? Do we fund art...
by CANVAS Staff | Mar 1, 2021 | News
When we observe Passover later this month at the traditional seder meal, we will recite the 10 Plagues that God is said to have imposed on the ancient Egyptians as punishment for not freeing their Israelite slaves. But this will be the second consecutive Passover...
by CANVAS Staff | Dec 3, 2020 | News
Tour the coast-to-coast exhibition “Dwelling in a Time of Plagues” with the artists and museum directors whose collaborative work caught the attention of the art world and received global acclaim this Sukkot. Featuring artists Mirta Kupferminc, Adam W....
by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson and Lou Cove | Nov 24, 2020 | News
When I (Ella) was asked to design the logo for CANVAS it was explained to me that this new funding collaboration would target the “Jewish cultural renaissance” — a new generation of artists that are exploring and creating innovative ways to preserve and reimagine...
by CANVAS Staff | Oct 22, 2020 | News
“Shelter in Place,” at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, is a collaboration with Asylum Arts and one of three installations commissioned for Sukkot as part of Dwelling in a Time of Plagues. Dwelling in a Time of Plagues, a...