81 Leonard Gallery and Jewish Art Salon are partnering in organizing an art exhibition to provide a stage for artistic responses addressing the current surge of antisemitism.
This project is supported by COJECO Arts Against Antisemitism Fellowship funded by the Mayor’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC) and the Jewish Community Relations Council.
The Jewish Art Salon is supported by CANVAS.
This exhibit will provide a safe space for Jewish artists to reflect and experience catharsis and self-healing, while responding to the stress of antisemitism with new work.
We intend to encourage a dialogue about how we move forward as a community.
Project Outcomes:
- We will raise our Jewish-positive voices in the world to counter anti-Semitic and anti-Israel messages all around us.
- Participating artists will gain a sense of being seen, heard and supported by the creative and Jewish community and the community at large.
Venue: 81 Leonard Gallery, 81 Leonard Street, New York, NY 10013
Curators:
Hannah Rothbard, Judith Joseph, Ronit Levin Delgado and Yona Verwer.
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline May 7th midnight your time.
- Notifications sent May 20th
- Artwork delivered to the gallery first week of June (details will be communicated to selected artists)
- Exhibition opening Sunday June 9th.
- On view until August 30th, 2024.
Programs during the exhibition:
- Opening reception
- Artists-led tours
- Shabbat dinner for women leaders in NY art organizations.
- An evening with another Jewish art organization, featuring music, performances, poetry.
- Closing event with panel discussion and performance.
Artwork info:
All works need to be ready to hang with a hook or a wire in the back (except for works on stretched canvas, wire is not necessary).
Works on paper need to be framed, with plexi, not glass, and a wire in the back. Unframed works not accepted.
No breakable materials.
We can only accept a limited number of video works and sculpture but encourage submissions of work in all media, including site-specific installation.
Size: We can only accept limited amounts of large-scale work, but welcome all submissions.
Theme:
Although you can submit works related specifically to the current war, please know that we are organizing a separate exhibition around that theme (From the Depths We Call You). We want to give exposure to as many JAS members as possible; artists selected for the anti-Semitism exhibit might be excluded from the Oct. 7 exhibition if we receive too many entries.
Artwork delivery:
Works can be hand delivered (dates TBA) or mailed in with UPS or FedEx with a prepaid return address label. Works without that label will not be considered.
APPLICATION:
Prepare your images:
Submit your images as jpegs, saved with last name_title, such as smith_banishment.jpg . Maximum 3 images per artist;
Image size: each jpeg not larger than 500 kb, not smaller than 250 kb. Larger files will be deleted, and your submission will be ineligible.
The form will ask for a short description of the artwork as well.
Submissions that feature image PDFs, jpegs without names or title, or omit a short statement/description will not be viewed.
Artists are responsible for the roundtrip transport of their work to and from the New York City venue. 81 Leonard Gallery and the Jewish Art Salon will not be responsible for damage or theft.
Apply HERE
