Where is Jewish Art Now? Rising, Declining, or Neither?

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By Elke Reva Sudin

With a rapidly declining economy, a second wave emerged in the last few years of content creators and appreciators such as the Jewish Art Salon, Art Kibbutz, or Jewish Eyes on the Arts, who have pushed ahead with their own independent programming despite a lack of community infrastructure or financial support. Some more religious groups which were actually started during the boom of the first wave and lacked institutional support also thrived in this environment, such as Shemspeed and ATARA. I believe we are at the crest of the second wave, where more and more interest in Jewish art has developed through increasing grassroots initiatives, and it is ready to crash, in a good way, to further hydrate the land. [link]

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The most recent discussions of religious art by Jews is one of the helpful examples of how the arts build community, and advance cultural understanding. While such discussions are not new ( not in any community), they do seem to have reached a high point this week within the Jewish world at least within the online world.