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This residency provides artists the opportunity to be in residence at Brandeis University while working on a significant artistic project in the field of Jewish women’s and gender studies, and to produce an exhibit for the Kniznick Gallery at the Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis University. The residency will be 3 — 4 weeks in length, and will take place in March. The exhibit will immediately follow and be on view for a minimum of 6 weeks.
Check back in Summer 2012 for details on the 2013 residency.
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Date: Thursday, March 29th - Friday, May 18th, 2012
Time: Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Location: Kniznick Gallery, WSRC, Epstein Building, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (click here for map)
The HBI welcomes the fourth annual Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) Artist in Residence, Sarah Zell Young. Her exhibition for the WSRC/HBI, Occupy Sanhedrin, will examine roles—both religious and secular—for Jewish women from the Second Temple to the present and will explore how bodies can become hazarded in the pursuit of justice. In addition to photographs, the exhibition will feature a large, site-specific installation—an interactive and participatory rendition of a Sanhedrin (rabbinic supreme court). By granting access to an historical space of justice—making it physical—Young invites viewers to engage with traditional ideas and received wisdom of judicatory in a new way and to achieve personal agency over their own relationship to history. Sarah Young received her BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and is studying toward her MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College, New York.
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Past Artists:
2011: Jess Riva Cooper
http://jessrivacooper.com/
Jessica Riva Cooper’s original, site-specific drawing and ceramics installation reinterpreted the folkloric stories of the Golem, a creature created to do a person’s bidding without question, and the Dybbuk, a mischievous spirit, through a feminist lens.
2010: Andi Arnovitz
http://www.andiarnovitz.com/
Acclaimed Israeli artist Andi Arnovitz created a site-specific installation exhibition titled “Tear/Repair (kriah/ichooi).” As the Second Annual Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Artist-in-Residence, Arnovitz created sketches for a new body of work–a series of paper coats for Jewish women who have impacted history and changed the world. These coats are an extension of Arnovitz's "Garments of Faith" series, which were also on view. Each of these garments, fabricated from torn or intact papers, scrolls, and book pages, represented injustices for Jewish women. The works addressed challenges throughout history–from halachic and spiritual issues, to those of co-existence, and above all, issues related to gender.
2008: Lynne Avadenka
http://www.lynneavadenka.com/
Words and images meld, the conceptual becomes tangible, and history met modernity in Lynne Avadenka’s site-specific installation. In Spring 2008 at the Kniznick Gallery, the Hadassah Brandeis Institute hosted its first artist-in-residence in an exhibition celebrating eloquence, bravery, and wit. Lynne Avadenka’s A Thousand and One Inventions boldly transformed the gallery’s unique architecture into a work of art. Painting, drawing, and assemblage created an environment that opens up and reveals layers visually, as a book does conceptually. Unprecedented in the artist’s oeuvre in scope and scale, A Thousand and One Inventions expanded on the themes in Avadenka’s limited edition artist’s book, By A Thread. Created in 2004 with a grant from the HBI, the book imagines a conversation between Queen Esther, the heroine of Purim, and Scheherazade, the teller of a thousand and one tales. Both women spoke up when they could have remained silent and saved many lives through their fortitude.
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Inquiries
Inquiries on the Artist-in-Residence Program: dolins@brandeis.edu
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