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SPRING 2024
Student Fine Art Contest 2024
Hillel at UCLA will be having the Student Fine Art show opening in the Spring quarter of 2024. We invite all undergraduate students to participate in the contest and share their beautiful ideas and artistic work with Hillel and the public. We want students to have the liberty to create anything possible with their imagination so submissions can be anything. *No nudity* In previous years, we received paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, even collages, and strange and exotic pieces of work, and many more so we encourage students to get creative and get motivated! We will be giving out prizes to the winning students.
"The Phylliss and Lou Mann Prize for Excellence in the Arts at UCLA Hillel"
1st prize: $1000
2nd prize: $500
Student submissions will be received at the front desk of Hillel, 574 Hilgard Ave, in care of Perla Karney,
March 8, 10 am- 4 pm.
The curator will make final selections. The exhibition opens May 23 and closes June 14, 2024.
Opening reception & Award Ceremony Thursday, May 23, 6-8 pm
The curator and juror will be present.
Curated by Cathy Weiss,
Claudia Sobral, Prize Juror
Contact Perla for additional information:
[email protected] | (310) 208-3081 Ext. 108
Generously funded by Mindy and Robert Mann & the Stratton-Petit Foundation
STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 2024
Requirements:
- 8x10 B&W or Color Image
- Must be printed on photo paper
- Include name, email, phone on the back of each photo
Contact:
Perla Karney, Artistic Director Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts 310-203-3081
ext.108
[email protected]The Photo Contest is Generously Underwritten by The Pamela and Randol Schoenberg Foundation
FALL 2024
FALL ART OPENING & RECEPTION
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The Child is the father of the Man
Photos and paintings by Kathryn Jacobi
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
7:00-9:00 pm
Exhibit runs until Friday, December 13th
Where: Hillel at UCLA
Artist Statement:
In William Wordsworth's poem, My Heart Leaps Up, the line "The Child is the father of the Man" opens a universe of metaphoric visual possibilities.
In his surreal novel Invitation to A Beheading, Vladimir Nabokov writes of a “photo-horoscope”, a device using a process by which a portrait photograph is manipulated into a series of images representing the subject from the cradle to “the final horizontal”.
The theme of memory, transformation, and continuance over the life cycle has been a constant thread of fascination for me over more than 60 years as a working artist. As both a painter and photographer I’ve depicted people in every stage of their lives, singly and in families, and continue to believe that the inner life is reflected in external signs: how we age, how the child becomes the old man or woman, what remains vital throughout a life.
I am especially intrigued seeing parents’ faces and bodies combine to morph into their children’s, the process continuing through generations, leaving intact remnant imprints of the progenitor on grandchildren and beyond. To me, this continuance is invariably life affirming and very, very touching.
This series, The Child is the father of the Man, depicts the older adult in combination with an image from his/her childhood, sometimes singly and sometimes with resembling family members. It takes me aback how little we change: the babies and children so accurately predicting their future visage and posture is almost uncanny. In the same way as I age and see my mother in the mirror looking back at me, I look at her portrait as a child and see her, but see also both my grandmother and my grandchildren. This series of portraits resonate with connection for me, and I compose and layer each final image until that connection--- between mortality and memory--- at least in my eyes and heart---becomes palpable.
Holy Sparks: Celebrating 50 Years of Women in the Rabbinate
Thursday, October 24th, 2024
7:00-9:00 pm
Exhibit runs until Friday, December 13th
Gindi Gallery
----On June 3, 1972, Jewish and American history were made when Rabbi Sally Priesand was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion as the first woman rabbi in North America. She and the others who followed set in motion the first steps toward the empowerment of new cohorts of leaders for the Jewish people over the past 50 years.
Celebrating this historic achievement is the Holy Sparks art exhibition, on view at Hillel at UCLA starting on Thursday, October 24th 2024, which was created by the Heller Museum at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, in partnership with The Braid (formerly Jewish Women's Theater). It illuminates the creativity, commitment, and vision of 24 women who were “firsts” in their time. Their challenges and contributions, struggles and successes represent the achievements of the nearly 1,500 women rabbis of all denominations who have transformed Jewish tradition, worship, spirituality, scholarship, education, and pastoral care.
Evoking these pioneering rabbis’ stories are the works of 24 leading contemporary Jewish women artists, who immersed themselves in their respective rabbi’s recorded interviews, produced by The Braid's Story Archive of Women Rabbis and preserved at the Jewish Women’s Archive.
Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Director of the Heller Museum, states, "From the pulpit to the college campus, from philanthropic foundations to Jewish communal organizations and agencies, from military to healthcare chaplaincy, women rabbis have indelibly redefined Jewish leadership. The art presented exemplifies the role of contemporary women artists in advancing Jewish culture through the visual expression of Jewish history, values, and identity."
Each work is further elaborated with the rabbis' biographies and QR-code links to their video interviews. The portraits are presented chronologically by year of ordination, to reveal each decade’s pioneers as inspiration for the next. A free curator’s audio tour and digital guide to the exhibition are available on the Heller Museum app on Bloomberg Connects.
Read more in the online exhibition catalogue
For questions, please contact Perla Karney at 310-208-3081 x108 or [email protected]