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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”