LABA East Bay, an incubator and study program for Jewish artists run by the JCC East Bay, is in search of its second cohort of Bay Area artists. LABA fellows spend a year creating new work, in any art medium, in response to selected Jewish texts and themes. Absent a pandemic, they present or perform…
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S.F. firm wins bid to remove historic Zakheim murals at UCSF
UCSF announced Oct. 20 that it has awarded a $1.8 million contract for the removal of historic murals by renowned Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim from a…
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Hundreds of Holocaust-era paintings need a new home
Plans are underway to find a home for a huge trove of works by a nearly forgotten Jewish artist that was uncovered 78 years after her death in a Nazi…
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After long, eclectic career, her creative drive is a ‘volcano’
“I didn’t know what was wrong with me when I was growing up,” says Carol Roseman, 71, of San Francisco. “It turned out that I was an artist.” Roseman…
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North Bay artists built a sanctuary, then fire wiped it out
Caryn Fried’s home wasn’t just a home. “We taught classes there, we had a gallery there where we sold our work, we had studios there,” she said,…
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Jewish artists contribute to East Bay in-person art show
Several Bay Area Jewish artists are part of a juried group show at the Abrams Claghorn Gallery in Albany through Sept. 30. The show, which can be seen in…
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Hope for Jewish artist’s historic work at UCSF
A clock that’s been ticking down on historic murals at UCSF Medical Center by the Jewish painter Bernard Zakheim has been paused temporarily, as widening…
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Tawonga staffer's coloring book encourages you to color 'Outside the Lines'
Sometime during this unprecedented year, Bay Area illustrator Meg Adler decided that what the world needed most was a coloring book. Not just any coloring…
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Now online: Magnes exhibits of works by Vishniac and Szyk
Two large exhibits that had just opened at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley when the coronavirus pandemic began can now be…