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Jewish Art Education presents "Jewish Women Artists"

One registration. Two programs. Two ways to encounter the remarkable creativity of Jewish women artists. This special collaboration between Jewish Art Education and Melton begins with art and continues with conversation. With a single registration, you’ll receive access to two separate live Zoom programs: first, Jewish Women Artists, an illustrated presentation produced by Jewish Art Education, followed several days later by a Melton class designed to take the learning further.

  • Jewish Women Artists
    Sunday, October 25, 7:00 - 8:30 PM EDT
    Join Nancy Kotz of Jewish Art Education for a visual exploration of 21 Jewish women artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. Through the work of painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers, we’ll encounter women whose art reflects remarkably different lives, times, places, and artistic movements. Along the way, we’ll consider how their experiences as women and Jews shaped their creative lives, how they responded to the cultures around them, and how questions of identity, recognition, and social equality emerge through their work.
  • Jewish, Woman, Artist
    Thursday, October 29, 7:00 - 8:00 PM EDT
    After Sunday’s visual journey, Rabbi Deborah Eisemann will bring selected works from the presentation into conversation with Jewish texts. Beginning with women in the Tanakh, we’ll move through rabbinic and Kabbalistic traditions and into Israeli and American Jewish life, exploring how the artists help us see familiar texts and ideas in new ways. We’ll conclude with the work of Nancy Spero and the idea of shalshelet shel kabbalah, the chain of tradition. Where have women stood within that chain across Jewish history, and where do we see ourselves in it today? Through art, text, and conversation, we’ll move from looking at the work of Jewish women artists to asking what their work can reveal about the tradition we have inherited and our own place within it.
These two programs are designed to work in concert: first we look, then we dig deeper. Whether you already learn with Melton or are joining us through Jewish Art Education, you’re invited to be part of the conversation. With a single registration, you’ll receive access to both Zoom programs and the opportunity to move from discovering the artists to exploring the larger questions their lives and creativity leave us to consider.

Join Jewish Art Education and Melton for two distinctive programs, one shared learning experience, and a chance to discover just how much there is to see when we look beyond the artwork.

We strive to ensure access and meaningful participation by all. As such, these programs will have closed captioning.

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Nancy Kotz holds a BA in Art History and Business from Skidmore College (1984). She earned a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University in 2011. Professionally, Nancy began her career in arts and public policy (Congressional Arts Caucus) before moving into the museum world (Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art), where she worked in museum education and retail. Nancy is also the Founder and Content Curator for VisualArtsDC, a social media-based community with over 1.8K followers focused on the visual arts in the metropolitan Washington, DC region.

Since 2015, she has been presenting programs in person and virtually to audiences across Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia for Jewish Art Education (JAE). As JAE’s Executive Director, she manages the organization’s administrative and marketing efforts as well as JAE’s Speakers Bureau. She has expanded JAE’s reach via Zoom to clients throughout the US and Canada. JAE’s clients include senior living communities, houses of worship, community centers, and other organizations that provide programs for lifelong learners. In 2025, JAE began offering Virtual Public Programs for audiences worldwide.

Faculty photoRabbi Debra Eisenman represents the seventeenth generation of rabbis in her family, carrying forward a remarkable legacy of Jewish learning and leadership. A graduate of the Joint Program of Columbia University and List College at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, she earned both a master’s degree and rabbinic ordination from JTS. In 2021, JTS honored her with a Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa. Rabbi Eisenman currently serves as Director of the Florence Melton School at Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. A dedicated Melton educator for more than a decade, she has been recognized with the title of Master Instructor for her outstanding teaching and commitment to text-based, interactive Jewish learning.


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