Our Mission
The ambition of The Museum of ImaJewnation is to engage people's imagination and encourage their interaction with Jewish culture - its ritual objects and customs, its texts and stories, its history and legends, and its chants and music. The Museum of ImaJewnation encourages people to respond to challenging questions by creating artworks, for display and/or sale, that draw inspiration from an element in Jewish culture. The Museum of ImaJewnation is a place where flights of mind come to rest for a while in the form of artworks in any medium. Without a permanent address, exhibits can arise where and whenever a ...
Featured Artist: Neshama Roash
As hard as it seems to describe something about which I am so passionate, I will attempt to share my feelings for my artistry and work. In doing so, I hope you get to know me a little, as I would love to get to know you a little as well! I am on an amazing journey as a stay-at-home mom of three energetic young children, a wife and partner to the love of my life who also happens to be my hero, and a fine art portrait photographer. For the last eight years, I have grown more than ...
Freedom Imagined, Freedom Lived: An Artistic Review of the Passover Promise
Coming Spring 2013 Freedom Imagined, Freedom Lived: An Artistic review of the Passover Promise The ambition of this project is to engage people in a conversation about meanings of freedom in the Jewish experience. Artists are encouraged to merge old songs, poems and short stories about freedom with new songs, poems and short stories. Beginning with the sounds of Haggadah readings, the goal is to create a performance artwork that presents nuanced understandings of Jewish aspirations for freedom. The setting for such a performance will include an exhibit by visual artists of artworks inspired by ritual objects from ...
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Freedom Imagined, Freedom Lived: An Artistic Review of the Passover Promise
Coming Spring 2013 Freedom Imagined, Freedom Lived: An Artistic review of the Passover Promise The ambition of this project is to engage people in a conversation about meanings of freedom in the Jewish experience. Artists are encouraged to merge old songs, poems and short stories about freedom with new songs, poems and... [Read more]
Sukkah City Annex – Encore
Hello friends, artists, supporters and all who care about our world, This winter, as we experience temperatures of fall, we have the opportunity to once again focus on the challenge of Sukkot at an encore exhibit of selected works of the Sukkah City 2011 Annex. I am very excited to present our artists’ works at our... [Read more]
Sukkah City 2011 Review
It was a bold ambition, imagining the future in the structure of a sukkah. There was a lot to learn in the beginning, like what a sukkah is and what the boundaries are that define it. There was a lot to think about, like how the boundaries that structure our lives are changing and in what kind of world do we want to live.... [Read more]
Defining and Defying Boundaries: An Exhibit of Sukkah Walls
Sukkah City Annex/Defining and Defying Boundaries: An Exhibit of Sukkah Walls How will you build the walls of your sukkah this year? This exhibit is part of a community conversation about our quickly changing and disorienting world, evidenced in the building, tearing down and blurring of the boundaries that structure... [Read more]
Call For Artists: Sukkah City/Defining and Defying Boundaries
Sukkah City STL is open to artists, architects, and designers of all faiths and backgrounds, working in teams or as individuals. Each submission must be e-mailed to SUKKAHCITYSTL@gmail.com by September 14, 2011. Ten finalists will be selected by a panel of celebrated architects, designers, critics, and religious and academic... [Read more]
Call to Artists: Come Build the Sukkah City Annex! Extending The Boundaries Of Sukkah City.
The aim of the project is to address a quickly changing and disorienting world, evidenced in the building, tearing down and blurring of the boundaries that structure our lives. Choose a boundary issue and express it in the creation of a SUKKAH WALL. The sukkah, a temporary dwelling, transported by the Israelites, wandering... [Read more]
Featured Artist: Neshama Roash
As hard as it seems to describe something about which I am so passionate, I will attempt to share my feelings for my artistry and work. In doing so, I hope you get to know me a little, as I would love to get to know you a little as well! I am on an amazing journey as a stay-at-home mom of three energetic young children,... [Read more]
Drama On The Shabbat Table
The exhibit, Drama on the Shabbat Table gave a starring tole to the Challah Cover. Each artist played the role in a different way. Here is one curator’s gratitude for the wisdom each artist discovered and shared with us, and one of many possible readings of the script. In the beginning we read that G-d blessed the... [Read more]
Featured Artist: Micah Roufa
Meet Micah: Micah’s work encompasses sculpture, architecture, and construction. He has taught glass at Washington University in St. Louis, and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. His sculptures have been exhibited and collected across the U.S. and in Israel. He has designed and built custom homes and completed... [Read more]
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Where Do You Give?
The Where Do You Give? National Design Competition is searching for talented designers who can translate tzedakah's meaning into compelling, relevant design. That is why they have created a design competition to invite a new generation of globally conscious designers to celebrate the critical role that tzedakah plays in today’s world.
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