Team – Jewish Art Salon

Team

Directors

Yona Verwer

Chair / Founding Director

Richard McBee

Treasurer / Founding Member

Goldie Gross

Secretary / Director, Young Membership

Joel Silverstein

Director of Exhibitions / Founding Member

Ronit Levin Delgado

Special Events

Advisory Board

Richard Borah

Evergreen Grant Writing.

Susan Chevlowe

Chief Curator and Museum Director of Derfner Judaica Museum

Tom Freudenheim

Freudenheim Consulting

Matthew Baigell

Art Historian, Author

Samantha Baskind, Ph.D.

Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University

Siona Benjamin

Artist. President, Blue Like Me

Tobi Kahn

Artist; Avodah Arts; Skirball Center.

Robert Kirschbaum

Artist, Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College.

Aaron Rosen

Director, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion, Washington, DC. Arts Editor: Image Journal.

Cynthia Beth Rubin

Artist; Cultural Heritage Artists Project.

Ben Schachter

Artist; Professor, Saint Vincent College

Susan Schwalb

Artist

Ori Z. Soltes

Professorial Lecturer, Author, Georgetown University.

2023 Online Programs Committee

JUDITH JOSEPH Curator Open Studios

DORIT JORDAN DOTAN Curator Open Studios

CHESELYN AMATO Video Recording Editor

CHANA WIESENTHAL ELIAS

YONA VERWER Program Founder / Advisor

2023 Guest Curators

Professor STEVEN FINE
Curator
Samaritans: A Biblical People
2022 NYC,
2023 Washington DC;

Bishop PAUL-GORDON CHANDLER
Advisor
Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity
2023 NYC

CLAIRE PEARMAN
Curator
Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity
2023 NYC

ABIGAIL MEYER
Curator
Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity
2023 NYC

SUSAN MAISHLISH
Curator
Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity
2023 NYC

HANNAH ROTHBARD
Curator, PAUSE: Jewish Heritage Month
2022 NYC

JESSE ABELMAN
Curator, Samaritans:
A Biblical People
2022 NYC,
2023 Washington DC

DAVID SELIS
Assistant Curator, Samaritans:
A Biblical People
2022 NYC,
2023 Washington DC

ILANA BENSON
Education Consultant Samaritans: A Biblical People
2022 NYC,
2023 Washington DC;

EMERGING ARTISTS & STUDENTS CHAIR

GOLDIE GROSS

YEHUDIS BARMATZ

BLUMA GROSS

2022-23 EXHIBITIONS COMMITTEE

Richard McBee
Curator, Genesis
Curator, Contemporary Jewish Artists Encounter Samaritans

Joel Silverstein
Curator, Genesis
Curator, Contemporary Jewish Artists Encounter Samaritans

Yona Verwer
Curator, Contemporary Jewish Artists Encounter Samaritans
Advisor, Genesis

Siona Benjamin
Advisor, Genesis

Goldie Gross
Curator, Genesis

Orli Swergold

Hannah Rothbard
Co-curator, Jerusalem Biennale JAS Exhibit

David Wander
Curator, Together Again