The Teaching Artist in Residency at Yeshiva University
Museum (YUM) blends community outreach and art education to create a series of
workshops and lectures that capture audience response to current exhibitions
and collections at the museum.
The Teaching Artist works with YUM staff and audiences to
create a project that highlights historical and artistic themes that relate to
contemporary ideas and issues.
Tailored programming is offered to the Yeshiva University
student body, families with children, and the general public.
Confirmed events and groups participating in the 2010 YUM
Teaching Artist in Residence program include:
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
21st CCLC (21st Century Community Learning Centers)
About the Collections
Drawing on Tradition: The Book of Esther
February 21- August
15, 2010
This exhibition depicts the Book of Esther as you've never
seen it before. Featuring the bold and edgy illustrations from JT Waldman's
Megillat Esther, this epic tale of exile and redemption is sure to amaze and
intrigue. The Jewish Museum of Maryland curated this exhibition. Original
drawings courtesy of JT Waldman.
A Journey Through Jewish Worlds:Highlights from the
Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books
A Journey Through Jewish Worlds offers museum visitors a
first-time glimpse at the rare treasures inside a world-class private
collection. This exceptional collection of manuscripts and printed books
provides an overview of seven centuries of Jewish creativity and artistry, and
features beautifully ornamented legal and liturgical manuscripts, decorated
marriage contracts and illustrated scrolls of the Book of Esther, many with
richly crafted cases made from precious metals or carved wood. Exhibition
highlights include a manuscript written in Germany in 1288, an illustrated
Italian marriage contract on parchment with unique cuttings from 1741, and
Esther scrolls from Holland, Italy, Greece and India. View Website
Goals of the 2010 Teaching Artist in Residency
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Explore Jewish heritage through the art and culture of the past and present.
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Uncover persistent threads or themes that permeate Jewish art.
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Articulate a point of view about Jewish visual history using the language of
comix.
About the Artist
JT Waldman is a comic book illustrator and interaction
designer. His first graphic novel, Megillat Esther, drew from archeological,
rabbinic and pop cultural sources to create a bold retelling of the biblical
story of Esther. He later went on to design a web application for JPS called
the Tagged Tanakh; a site that enables people to tag and contribute remarks to
any word or verse in the Bible. JT is currently working on his next graphic
novel with Harvey Pekar.
A graduate of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Arts
and Ideas in the Humanities, Waldman also holds a technical degree in digital
design from the Vancouver Film School. He also studied at the Facultad de
Bellas Artes de Sevilla in Seville, Spain, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts and the Liberal Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. JT lectures and offers
workshops on Jewish art, comix and midrash. He also contributed to two books,
From Krakow to Krypton and The Jewish Graphic Novel, that both detail the
intersection of comic books and Judaism.
To learn more about JT and his work go to www.JTWaldman.com.
