Thursday, September 12, 2024 | 10am–2:30pm
ADMISSION: Free with advance registration
Join fellow professional educators from across the Bay Area for an inspiring day of connection, culture, and creativity at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM), where we’ll explore innovative ways to engage with Jewish traditions and community and explore our latest exhibition, the California Jewish Open.
We'll kick off the workshop with an icebreaker activity and connection prompt led by Jewish LearningWorks—a local agency dedicated to elevating the field of Jewish education by nurturing educators, inspiring innovation, and building Jewish literacy. Then, we will join in an in-gallery discussion with exhibiting California Jewish Open artists Forest Reid and Bonny Nahmias on Whimsy and Transcendence. Following a catered vegetarian lunch, we will connect with one another, renew ourselves, and be engage in a hands-on community building creative workshop led by interdisciplinary artist Bonny Nahmias.
Enjoy a morning coffee and vegetarian lunch while you connect, learn, and grow with your peers.
Reserve your space in this free workshop by registering below.
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The Museum’s first major open call exhibition invited Jewish-identifying artists in California to submit artworks in response to a central question: How are artists looking to the many aspects of Jewish culture, identity, and community to foster, reimagine, hold, or discover connection? The resulting exhibition brings together the work of forty-seven artists reflecting on their connection to Judaism, the world, and their own history. Through a wide range of media, including paintings, sculptures, interactive video games, video works, photographs, and more, the California Jewish Open illustrates some of the myriad ways in which these artists’ Jewish identity informs their connection to the world at large—and offers a window into the universal human need for connection in all its complexity.
Major support for K-12 School and Teacher Programs is generously provided by California Bank & Trust; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Barbara and Ronald Kaufman; The Bernard Osher Foundation; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; and Yerba Buena Community Benefit Fund.