Preliminary Visual Arts Landscape Study

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Preliminary Visual Arts Landscape Study

• What the NFJC has done
• Recommendations from the Artist retreat
• Preliminary Field Survey

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NFJC -- Visual ArtsCurrent and Previous Programs

• Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards 1986-2004
• Visions of Jewish Meaning 2001 Artists
  Retreat
• Ronnie Heyman Prize for an Emerging Jewish
  Artist
• 2003, 2004
• Various Fiscal Sponsorships
• Ad Hoc Public Programs

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What is the Landscape?

• In beginning to layout the landscape, preliminary
  contact with emerging artist population through
  Heyman prize
• Future interviews with galleries, curators,
  established artists, museum directors, educators,
  scholars and patrons

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Core Visual Arts Advisors

• Archie Rand painter, JCAA Arts winner 1999
• Professor of Visual Arts, Columbia University
• Norman Kleeblatt- Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of
  Fine Arts at the Jewish Museum of New York
• Robin Cembalest Executive Editor of ARTnews
• Ruth Weisberg- artist, Dean of Fine Arts at USC
• Tobi Kahn- artist, JCAA Arts winner 2004

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Archie Rand- JCAA 1999painter, acrylic, Biblical
texts and themes, cartoon
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Tobi Kahn- JCAA 2004painter, sculptor,
installation/ sanctuary for the soul
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Ruth Weisbergillustrator, painter, installation,
Biblical themes
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Norman Kleeblatt co-curated, The Jewish Museum
An Expressionist in Paris The Paintings of
Chaim Soutine (1893- 1943)Too Jewish? 1997
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JCAA Criteria

• A significant body of work or consistent
  achievement
• Excellence on the highest standards of the
  discipline
• Significant contributions to Jewish life and
  culture in America
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JCAA Awards in Visual Arts 1986-2004

• 15 awards
• Range of media sculpture, painting, cartoon,
  installation, public art/performance
• Gender 10 men / 3 women
• 2 institutions The San Diego Museum of Art and
  The Jewish Museum of New York

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JCAA Awards in Visual Arts past winners

• San Diego Museum of Art (1986)
• George Segal (1990)
• Larry Rivers (1991)
• R.B. Kitaj (1992)
• The Jewish Museum (1993)
• Leonard Baskin (1994)
• Leon Golub (1995)

• Art Spiegelman (1996)
• Maurice Sendak (1998)
• Archie Rand (1999)
• Nancy Spero (2000)
• Jack Levine (2001)
• Helene Aylon (2002)
• Mierle Ukeles (2003
• Tobi Kahn (2004)

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Visions of Jewish Meaning 2001 Artists Retreat

• Planned by core artistic advisors
• Funded by Nathan Cummings Foundation
• 32 participants including scholars, artists,
  critics, exhibitors, patrons
• Selection criteria range of work, style,
  content, age, gender, emerging-prominent

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Sample of Participants

• Rhonda Leiberman, artist and contributing writer
  for Artforum
• Laurie Gross, textile and synagogue artist
• Ken Aptekar, painter read between the lines
• Connie Wolf, curator at Contemporary Jewish
  Museum, San Francisco
• Allan Wexler, sculpture/architecture
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles, conceptual artist
• Margaret Olin, writer and professor

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Visions of Jewish Meaning Agenda

• Individual Artist Presentations
• How does the Jewish community interface with the
  Jewish Visual Arts?
• Jewish Art in a Time of Crisis
• The Spiritual, the Religious and the Artistic
• The Artist in the Jewish Community
• Text Study Lech Lcha

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Towards a Jewish Visual Arts AgendaRecommendation
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• Supporting new creative work by artists
• Linking artists and scholars for research or
  study
• Commissioning Jewish public art, linking artists
  and institutions
• Serving as a broker for funding
• Encouraging more press and journal coverage
• Fostering opportunities for international artists
  exchanges

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NFJC Responses

• Ronnie Heyman Prize for an Emerging Jewish Artist
• Fiscal sponsorships Wings of Witness
• Consulting with communities Tobi Kahn
  commission in San Diego
• Expanding visual arts network galleries,
  curators, artists
• Strategic planning for visual arts

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The Ronnie Heyman Prize for Emerging Jewish
Visual Artistcriteria

• Established 2002
• Body of work reflecting the Jewish experience or
  addressing issues in the Jewish community. 
• Media painting, illustration, sculpture,
  photography, and multi-media.
• Body of work already exhibited (very specific)

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The Ronnie Heyman Prize for Emerging Jewish
Visual ArtistProcess

• Panel selection process
• 2002 8 submissions
• 2003 43 submissions
• Advertised in ArtNews, artnet.org, CAJM mailing
  list, JCC mailing list
• Award winner published in ArtNews, JCN

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Joan Linder, Ronnie Heyman winner 2003118-60
Metropolitan Ave. series /oil paintings
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Joan Linder- Themes

• Family dynamics/Psychology
• Aging/Loss
• Analytical/Emotional
• Jewish ritual/food

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JL Influences Jack Levine, b. 1915 JCAA
winner 2001Social realist, American
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JL Influence Charlotte Solomangouache
painter/theater, 26 years old
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Hanan Harchol Heyman winner 2004
animation/drawing/acrylic
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Hanan Harchol Themes

• Family relationships
• Israeli/Eastern European heritage
• Psychological/Emotional/humorous
• Autobiography, mythology
• Samson and Delilah/ Abraham and Isaac
• Empowerment/disempowerment

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HH Influence Ida Applebroog b.1929NYC painter,
angst, family, intimate relationships (maiden
name, Applebaum and Horowitz)
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HH Influence William Kentridge b. 1955 South
African, animation/charcoal drawingsApartheid
and Colonialism
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Survey of Emerging Artists

• What brings them to Jewish themes complex
  family relationships, therapy generation,
  personal identity, desire to investigate
  stereotypes and discrimination, religious ritual
• These artists are not afraid to identify as
  Jewish Artists
• Consistent problems Lack of funding for young
  artists
• Lack of Forums and panels to express and share
  ideas about being a Jewish artist panels,
  discussions, fostering community
• Lack of exposure exhibits, printed materials

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Survey of Emerging Artists

• Many of the emerging Jewish artists look to our
  JCAA winners or prominent Jewish artists for
  inspiration in their work
• Leon Golub Shoshana Dentz
• Helene Aylon Shari Rothfarb
• Marc Chagall- Heeb Magazine

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Leon Golub b. 1922JCAA Winner 1995American,
realist, pessimist protest artist
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Shoshana Dentz, emerging, New York
basedpainting, abstraction, political
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Helene Aylon JCAA winner 2002eco-feminist,
installation
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Shari Rothfarb, emerging New York
basedfilm/video/installation/paintingfeminist/ex
perimental
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Mark Chagall/ Heeb Magazine Apocalypse/The
PassionChagall as transgressive and radical, not
kitsch
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Next Steps

• Conduct a complete survey, including galleries,
  curators, established artists, museum directors,
  educators, scholars and patrons
• Recast priorities from the Artists Retreat
• Supporting new creative work by artists
• Linking artists and scholars for research or
  study
• Commissioning Jewish public art, linking artists
  and institutions
• Serving as a broker for funding
• Encouraging more press and journal coverage
• Fostering opportunities for international artists
  exchanges

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