Fresh Voices of Contemporary Jewish Artists at HUC-JIR/LA

Fresh Voices of Contemporary Jewish Artists, an exhibition coordinated by The Jewish Artists Initiative, features the works of ten Los Angeles-based, mid-career artists, whose subject matter and media offer a fresh and contemporary approach to re-imagining Judaism in the new millennium. Fresh Voices includes work by Stas Orlovski, Karen Liebowitz, Carol Es, Josh Abarbanel, Gary Brown, Adrienne Adar, Marcie Kaufman, Eileen Levinson, Maital Guttman and Kate McKinney. The exhibit dialogue created by these artists represents a fresh voice from a generation of artists whose careers have unfolded in the secular art world but who are exploring in new ways their Jewish identity.

Exhibition on view through December 2009.

Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation’s oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR’s scholarly resources comprise the renowned Klau Library, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. In partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, HUC-JIR sustains the Reform Movement’s congregations and professional and lay leaders. HUC-JIR’s campuses invite the community to cultural and educational programs illuminating Jewish history, identity, art, and archaeology, and fostering interfaith and multiethnic understanding.