Baltimore
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Tal Beery
A Binding
March 25 —April 5
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Boston
Vilna Shul
Julie Weitz
Golem v. Golem
March 26 — April 4
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Charlotte
Street Art
Mike Wirth
“Havtacha” The Promise
Opening March 25th
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Detroit
Museum of Contemporary Art
Olivia Guterson
At Our Table
March 26 — April 5
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New York City
JCC Harlem
Repair the World Workshop Brooklyn
Hillel Smith
[Exhibit Title]
Opening March 25th
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14th Street Y
Maya Ciarrochi
THIS PLACE HAS A BODY (WORKING TITLE)
Opening March 25th
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Toronto
Street Art
Bereket Kezwer
BOTH&
Opening March 25th
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Dwelling in a Time of Plagues: Sukkot
“There is a certain pleasure — rare in our socially distanced moment — of experiencing stories in public, communally, albeit at a distance from other onlookers…” — Hyperallergic
“Dwelling in a Times of Plagues: Sukkot” launched in October 2020 with installations by artists Mirta Kupferminc, Adam W. McKinney, and Tiffany Woolf at the Jewish History Museum and Holocaust Center in Tucson, Ariz.; Oregon Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland; Holocaust Museum Los Angeles; and the 14th Street Y in New York City.
Each artist was asked to develop an artwork that took into account the themes of Sukkot, while considering safety realities per the pandemic, the outside spaces available, special opportunities at each museum, and themes of justice.
This constellation of exhibits drew thousands of in-person and virtual viewers, and was featured widely in the media. Below are some highlights:
Drawing on Jewish Tradition, a Filmmaker Gives Voice to Elders
(Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic)
Amidst Continued Protests in Portland, Adam McKinney’s New Show Explores His Black and Jewish Identities
(Chava Lansky, Dance Magazine)
Sukkot, the Pandemic and a Lynching Come Together in a Multiracial Jewish Dancer’s New Art Installation
(Josefin Dolsten, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Artistic Sukkot-Inspired Exhibition: ‘Ushpizin of the Silver Screen’
(Esther Kustanowitz, Los Angeles Jewish Journal)
Reimagining Sukkahs in a Time of Plague
(P.J. Grisar, The Forward)
Jewish Arts Institutions Respond to Racial Injustice—and Covid-19(Robert Goldblum, Hadassah Magazine)
Clamor in the Desert: A Shelter for Anyone Who Feels Forlorn
(Mirta Kupferminc, Lilith)
baltimore
boston
charlotte
detroit
new york city
toronto
Dwelling
in a Time of Plagues
A Jewish creative response to real-world plagues of our time
Passover 2021
Dwelling in a Time of Plagues is a Jewish creative response to real-world plagues of our time. Collectively, the commissions in this constellation of art projects around North America grapple with contemporary crises: the global pandemic, institutional racism, xenophobia, ageism, forced isolation, and the climate crisis.
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Plagues & Liberation
Coinciding with the holiday of Passover, during which we remember the 10 Plagues visited upon the Egyptians, the works for “Dwelling in a Time of Plagues” reinterpret the themes of Passover in response to our times and our unique partners. New works generated by Jewish artists and creatives include outdoor sculptures, murals, essays, audio pieces, videos, and digital art experiences online. Each piece responds to its medium and host community specifically, and to our collective plight as Jews and as human beings.
We invite you to dwell with us in these physical and virtual pieces for our times.
Darkness
Boston
Artist: Julie Weitz
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
HOUSING INSECURITY
Charlotte
Artist: MIKE WIRTH
Ageism
Los Angeles
Artist: TIFFANY WOOLF
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Grief & Loss
“A Binding” began with a month-long effort to collect testimonials, over Zoom, of Baltimore residents of all ages and backgrounds who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 and who have had to say goodbye or memorialize their loved ones over Zoom. Audio excerpts of these recordings will play on loop from speakers hidden at the base of two large 17-foot decorative arches on the facade of the Jewish Museum of Maryland. The arches themselves will frame large prints of Zoom background images gathered from the recordings. Thus the arches, and the museum’s facade overall, will become a portal into empty homes, portraits of neighbors who are grieving a terrible loss.
This plague has forced us to rethink notions of intimacy and distance. So much of our most intimate moments, including birth and death, are now mediated through screens, which have become our windows or doorways into the worlds of others. As we approach Passover, it is worthwhile to remember that doors are a central symbol of the holiday. Each year we open our doors to Elijah the Prophet as we do for the hungry and needy. But can we truly open our doors this year? Can we embrace those of us in our communities who are in need? “A Binding” transforms the Jewish Museum of Maryland’s public-facing facade into a site for collective mourning.

Tal Beery
Tal Beery is an artist, educator, and arts administrator. His work considers the links between aesthetics, institutional design, and political imaginations. A serial institution-maker, Beery is co-founder of Eco Practicum, an artist-run school for ecological justice; founding faculty at School of Apocalypse, examining the connections between creative practice and notions of survival; and founding member of Educational Ecologies Collective, a consulting firm generating tools for institutions of higher education to promote climate justice. He is also a core member of Occupy Museums, an artist collective whose projects have exposed corrupt links between high art and high finance. His written work and interviews have appeared in numerous publications, and his personal and collaborative works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe, including the 2012 Berlin Biennale, Brooklyn Museum, and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. His current curatorial project, “Owning Earth,” considers the relationship between art and epochal change.
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Darkness
“Golem v. Golem” is an eight-part episodic video series that explores the multiple dimensions of contemporary artist Julie Weitz’s “My Golem” project, an iterative performance and video work that centers on Weitz’s portrayal and embodiment of a futuristic, folkloric humanoid. Beginning in 2017 as a series of Instagram videos produced in response to rising white supremacy and antisemitism, “My Golem” has since evolved through a number of commissioned works in partnership with curators, activists, rabbis, and Jewish scholars. Within the framework of the Passover story, “Golem v. Golem” examines how the struggle between tyranny and freedom exists within all of us. Each episode draws out Weitz’s personal relationship to her character and the contradictory ways in which “My Golem” has been received and (mis)-interpreted by different audiences in various contexts. The series is intended to inspire a critical dialogue about privilege, whiteness, Jewishness, resistance, reparations, and freedom in America during this unprecedented moment of political upheaval and social change.

Julie Weitz
Julie Weitz is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work spans several media including video, film, performance, and installation. Her practice is grounded in Jewish folklore, mysticism, humor, and ritual. Weitz is currently a 2020-21 Cultural Trailblazer of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and a Helix Fellow at Yiddishkayt. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, BOMB, LA Confidential, Photograph Magazine, Hyperallergic, and KCRW. Weitz has received grants from the California Center for Cultural Innovation, Banff Centre for Arts, Asylum Arts, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is a contributing writer at Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) and an activist with Never Again Action, a progressive, Jewish-led organization that takes direct actions to defend immigrant justice. Weitz founded the Instagram account @Jews4BlackLives in May 2020, which serves as an educational hub for the Jewish activist community in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
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Written Response
What We Talk About When We Talk to the Golem
Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Julie Weitz’s Golem is a fictional character with a mythical pedigree; in responding to and conversing with this iteration of the Golem, Moriel Rothman-Zecher will create three characters of his own, each speaking from, if not for, a different part of American Jewishness in 2021. The central response from each will be in writing, including an earnest/nervous transcript of an interview with the Golem, a poetic essay on the Golem, and a conspiracy theory-laden report about the Golem. Additionally, each character will have a possible video component. These characters will, to varying degrees, be golem-esque themselves, in that they are each exaggerated in their attributes, and all three have a bit of childlikeness to them. Together with the Golem, they will give voice to a variation on the Four Children.
Moriel Rothman-Zecher is a Jerusalem-born novelist and poet. His first novel, “Sadness Is a White Bird,” received the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Honor, won the Ohioana Book Award, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. His work has been published in The Common Magazine, Haaretz, the Jewish Book Council’s Paper Brigade, the New York Times, the Paris Review’s Daily, Runner’s World, the Tel Aviv Review of Books, ZYZZYVA Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature, and Yiddishkayt’s Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship for Yiddish Cultural Studies. Moriel’s second novel is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2022. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his family.
housing insecurity/homelessness
Visual Response
Mike Wirth
“Havtacha” The Promise
STREET ART (Details coming soon!)
Jewish Street Art / Queens University of Charlotte
Opening March 25th

Mike Wirth
Mike Wirth is a street artist, graphic designer, and an associate professor of art based in Charlotte, N.C. His work reflects his blended Jewish upbringing and his experience of adulthood in the American South through pop art-inspired Jewish iconography and typography. Over the past 20 years, Mike’s mural projects, information graphics, illustrations, and museum exhibits have had a notable presence in U.S. cities like Charlotte, Miami, and New York City, and internationally in Croatia, Poland, and Germany. Currently, Mike is a commissioned mural artist, illustrator, and tenured associate professor of graphic design at Queens University of Charlotte. He holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design in Design and Technology and a BFA from Long Island University in Digital Art and Design.
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Single-Use Plastic
Visual Response
Olivia Guterson
At Our Table
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT
Reboot
Opening March 26th
“At Our Table” is a reimagining of a Passover table constructed from locally sourced, discarded single-use plastics, illuminating the concept of convenience, throwaway culture, and environmental responsibility during a holiday centered on the joy and the sacrifices necessary in finding our own personal liberation.

Olivia Guterson
Olivia Guterson is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Gallup, New Mexico, based in Detroit. She is deeply influenced by the textures, landscapes, and patterns of her upbringing in the Southwest, as well as her Jewish and African heritage. She works predominantly in black and white for its stability, intensity, and honesty while incorporating ancestral patterns and narratives. Olivia studied at the Evergreen State College, Washington State. In 2020, she curated her first exhibition, “The Space Between” at the Ann Arbor Art Center. She presently is a resident at Sibyls Shrine and AS220’s Practice//Practice. Private and public collections where her works can be found include: Detroit Art Collection, Library Street Collective, Shinola Hotel, and ROI in Jerusalem. Her work has been shown at the Arab American National Museum, Art Week Miami, JADA Art Fair, Norwest Gallery, Detroit Artist Market, Ann Arbor Art Center, and more.
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Food insecurity
Visual Response
Hillel Smith
[Exhibit Title]
STREET ART (details coming soon!)
Repair the World/Jewish Street Art (New York City)
Opening March 25th

Hillel Smith
Hillel Smith is an artist and designer focused on re-imagining the potential of Judaica by utilizing contemporary media to create new manifestations of traditional forms. He has painted dynamic Jewish murals in Southern California, Atlanta, Virginia, Minnesota, Jerusalem, and at the Fendi headquarters in Rome. He revitalizes ancient rituals with online projects, including the Best Omer Ever: GIF the Omer counter and Parsha Posters, encouraging creative reconsideration of religious practice. Seeing Hebrew as the visual glue that binds Jews together across time and space, he also teaches Jewish typographic history, using print as a lens for Jewish life and culture. Making fun and engaging content is similarly the crux of his work as a designer for clients including HIAS, PJ Library, and Patton Oswalt.
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Global Warming
Visual Response
Maya Ciarrocchi
This Place Has a Body (working title)
STREET ART (More details coming soon!)
14th Street Y (New York City)
Opening March 25th

Maya Ciarrocchi
Maya Ciarrocchi is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working across media in drawing, printmaking, performance, video, installation, and social practice. Through personal narrative, storytelling, and embodied mapmaking her projects excavate disappeared histories as in “Site: Yizkor,” where architectural renderings of destroyed buildings, maps of vanished places, historical Yizkor (Jewish memorial) books, and audience-contributed writings become sources for exploring the physical and emotional documentation of loss.
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BINARY THINKING
Visual Response
Bareket Kezwer
BOTH&
STREET ART (More details coming soon!)
Jewish Street Art (Toronto)
Opening March 25th

Bareket Kezwer
Bareket Kezwer is a Toronto-based muralist, community art facilitator, curator, producer, and eternal optimist. Her work is motivated by a desire to spread joy, cultivate gratitude, and foster new social interactions. Using aerosol and acrylic paint as well as digital design, she works with bright colors and bold patterns to captivate people’s attention and fill them with delight. She is passionate about creating art that both aesthetically and psychologically brightens the streets.
Her belief that public art is a powerful tool for building community drives her practice. She is the founder and creative director of Women Paint, an annual street art event that has produced 80 murals celebrating the strength and diversity of women and non-binary artists and community members.
Over the last seven years, she has created custom large-scale artworks for clients including The New Yorker, Tourism Canada, the City of Toronto, the City of Mississauga, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto, Facebook, and Airbnb.
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Ageism
Visual Response
Tiffany Woolf
THE USPHIZIN OF THE SILVER SCREEN: HONORING THE VISIONS & VOICES OF THE PAST
Holocaust Museum LA (Fall 2020)
Reboot
This year, we are all living apart…forced to quarantine…many alone, sheltering in place, often with no outlet for deep connection and community. For our elders, there is a loss of voice and in these times, a disappearance. This outdoor installation focused on the Sukkot tradition of the ushpizin: symbolic guests invited into the sukkah…ancestors…friends. The tradition manifests by calling them into the temporary space of the sukkah to honor stories of the past. Traditionally, the ushpizin are called in through photos and drawings displayed in the sukkah—remembered together by its nightly visitors.
In keeping with Los Angeles culture, this sukkah was designed as an old-time Hollywood movie house, with the voices and stories of the ushpizin watched and heard from the outside. While the sukkah remained Covid-empty, it was filled by the once voiceless, with their diverse and cherished Jewish stories and remembrances of the past.

Tiffany Woolf
Tiffany Woolf is a filmmaker with 25 years of experience in visual arts, film and entertainment. Her work is centered around moving images as a catalyst for remembrance and legacy. Since 2017, Tiffany’s major artistic focus has been her project Silver Screen Studios, a series of documentary shorts and digital platform to celebrate the wit, wisdom and candor of seniors, both in and out of the public eye. She has traveled the country to capture the stories of older role models along with the legends we love and launched three series: “The Last Act,” “Coming of Age” and “Dispatches from Quarantine.”
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Racism
Visual Response
ADAM W. MCKINNEY
Shelter in place
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (Fall 2020)
Asylum Arts

Adam W. McKinney
Adam W. McKinney is a Gay, Black, Native, Jewish artist whose work investigates the impact of history as the persistent pursuit of social justice activism. A former member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Milwaukee Ballet Company, he was named one of the most influential African-Americans in Milwaukee, Wis., by St. Vincent DePaul. More at www.dnaworks.org.
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Xenophobia
Visual Response
Mirta Kupferminc
CLAMOR IN THE DESERT
JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM AND HOLOCAUST CENTER in TUCSON (fall 2020)
LABA
Kol Kore Bamidbar, are the Hebrew words to say, “That voice that cries out for protection.” The work transforms fence materials into a shelter that welcomes everyone. The same material that is used to build limitation and separation are used in this habitable installation to build a celebration, a shelter that receives humanity as a whole. Humanity is represented on the walls of the sukkah, as they are filled with printed images of eyes through participatory collective action. Visitors will be invited to hang prints on the installation. Mirrors hanging from the structure will reflect the eyes of visitors, as witnesses.
In the time of our current plague, although our mouths are covered with protective masks; our voices in our eyes continue to claim justice together.
CLAMOR EN EL DESIERTO/Kol Kore Bamidbar
La suka es una construccion inestable y provisoria, que representa la fragilidad de la vida humana. Pero es tambien el refugio para todo aquel que se siente desprotegido. Kol Kore Bamidbar, son las palabras hebreas para decir “esa voz que pide proteccion.”
Toda suka tiene sus paredes abiertas invitando a todo individuo que desee entrar, y ese es el motivo para celebrar. Es por eso, que en la tradicion judia es obligacion dejar afuera de la suka toda afliccion.
Los colores utilizados en esta obra representan los coleres de los atributos de sukkot, sumado el color del desierto de Arizona. El mismo material que sirve para construir cercos que limitan y separan, fueron utilizados en esta obra para construir un refugio de celebracion que albergue a la humanidad.
En epocas de Covid19, y aunque nuestras bocas esten cubiertas con las mascaras protectoras; nuestras voces en nuestras miradas siguen clamando por justicia para la humanidad toda.

Mirta Kupferminc
Mirta Kupferminc is a multidisciplinary Argentine artist, curator, lecturer, mentor, and teacher of other artists who lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Exhibiting since 1977, she has had more than 100 solo and group shows in Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Uruguay, China Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong , Germany, Israel, Poland, France, Hungary, England, United States. Her works can be found in international collections and museums. She has received local and international printmaking awards, including: Great Honor Prize (2012) in Argentina, First Prize Sivori Museum, Argentina (2018), Silver Medal Taiwan Biennale (2006), Honor Mention Taipei Biennale (1999), Third Prize at 7th Koichi Biennale (2008). She was curator of the Argentinean presentation at the Contemporary Jewish Art Jerusalem Biennale 2019.
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