Current CANVAS Grantees

The Alliance for Jewish Theatre is made up of theatre-artists, theatres, and other people connected and dedicated to Promoting and Preserving Jewish Theatre, including the creation, presentation, and preservation of both traditional and non-traditional theatrical endeavors by, for, and about the Jewish experience.

Art/Lab: Innovating Jewish Arts and Culture is a community of contemporary Jewish artists, culture bearers and the audiences they engage throughout Portland, OR and the environs. Art/Lab’s vision manifests as a fellowship cohort for contemporary Jewish artists, an art gallery exclusively for Pacific Northwest Jewish artists, exhibitions, arts workshops and other public programs and dialogues.

The Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) is an association of institutions and individuals committed to enriching American and Jewish culture and enhancing the value of Jewish museums to their communities. It offers programs, networking, and learning opportunities to the Jewish-museum field, and highlights issues pertaining to the presentation of Jewish culture.

Founded in 2008 and based in New York City, the Jewish Art Salon is a global network dedicated to contemporary Jewish visual art. With over 400 members and 2,000 subscribers, the Jewish Art Salon has significantly influenced the field through its dynamic range of exhibitions, workshops, and interactive events.

Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, found­ed in 1943, is the longest-run­ning orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed exclu­sive­ly to the sup­port and cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture. For over sev­en­ty years, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil has brought peo­ple togeth­er for mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sions about Jew­ish life, iden­ti­ty, and cul­ture through a lit­er­ary lens.

Kultura Collective is network of modern Jewish Arts, Culture and Heritage organizations that celebrates and amplifies Jewish culture throughout Toronto. As a community, Kultura shares and explores its culture and traditions through meaningful artistic experiences.

The Museum of Jewish Montreal is redefining what it means to engage in Jewish life. In addition to hosting art exhibitions and leading hundreds of walking tours and food tours annually, the museum hosts dozens of cultural events throughout the year based around art, food, music, and history.

The New Jewish Culture Fellowship (NJCF) brings together an interdisciplinary cohort of groundbreaking Jewish artists to share work, discuss issues and texts, and learn from and with each other over the course of an academic year. Fellows come from all creative fields—visual arts, writing, performance, music, and more—and apply with projects that would benefit from the feedback and support of peers similarly drawn to exploring the rich, complex inheritance of Jewish life and identity in all its forms.

Reboot reimagines and reinforces Jewish thought and traditions, offering an inviting mix of discovery, experience and reflection. Through Reboot Studios, their media investment and development arm, Reboot funds and produces projects in television, film, theater, podcasts, music, publishing and beyond.

The Workshop is North America’s first arts fellowship centering the work of JOCISM (Jews of Color, Jewish-Indigenous, Sephardi & Mizrahi) artists & culture-makers. Conceived and founded by theatre-artist and rabbi, Kendell Pinkney, The Workshop seeks to stir-up, interrogate, incubate, expand, trouble and revitalize Jewish art by providing unparalleled career support for wildly talented artists.

Yetzirah is dedicated to fostering and supporting a community space for Jewish poets, nourishing writers and readers of Jewish poetry now and for generations to come. Founded in Asheville, North Carolina, Yetzirah is the only national organization devoted to the support of Jewish poets and Jewish poetry.

70 Faces Media is the largest and most diverse Jewish media organization in North America, that aspires to connect as many people as possible to all sides of the unfolding Jewish story. Their brands include Kveller, JTA, My Jewish Learning, HeyAlma, The Nosher, and NY Jewish Week.

The Forward is the most significant Jewish voice in American journalism, reporting on cultural, social and political issues that inspires readers of all ages and animates conversation across generations and different segments of their community. The Forward’s English and Yiddish platforms build on a century-old legacy maintained in our archives and lead to a deeper understanding of what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century.

The Ashkenaz Foundation celebrates global Jewish music, arts, and culture that embraces the past, present and future. While rooted in the spirit and forms of the Yiddish culture revival, Ashkenaz spotlights a broad range of multi-ethnic Jewish identities and artistic/cultural traditions, providing a platform for artists established and emerging.

Ayin Press is an independent publishing house and production studio rooted in Jewish culture and emanating outward. Ayin was founded on a deep belief in the power of culture and creativity to heal, transform, and uplift the world we share and build together.

Havurah is a collective of young Jewish artists, painters, writers, poets, musicians, filmmakers, photographers, and creative souls of all kinds in New York City, ushering in a new generation of artistry. Havurah is reclaiming a Jewish tradition tracing back to Bezalel that sees art as a mechanism for engaging with the divine and, consequently, as crucial to spiritual practice.

Founded in 2014, JArts celebrates the richness of Jewish culture through innovative public programming in collaboration with civic and religious organizations. As a cornerstone of Boston’s cultural landscape, JArts reaches thousands of people each year through public art exhibits, holiday celebrations, and events at renowned secular cultural institutions.

The Jewish Film Institute (JFI) is the premier curatorial voice for Jewish film and media around the world. Founded in 1980 as the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF), the world’s first and most revered event for independent, Jewish-themed storytelling, JFI’s programs illuminate the full diversity of Jewish experiences.