Sunday, September 21, 7 pm, $9 (half a chai*) – $36
Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) will come to life through 1,500 years of Jewish art with the virtual presentation, The Art of the High Holidays.
Presented by Jewish Art Education, Joanna Homrighausen, Ph.D will offer a chronological and topical overview of visual art objects and their symbolism related to these two holidays. Powerful art will be included in a slideshow along with an in-depth narration.
Joanna Homrighausen writes and teaches at the intersection of sacred text, lettering arts, and scribal crafts. She earned her PhD in Religion (Hebrew Bible) at Duke University and now teaches Religious Studies at the College of William & Mary, where she has taught the biblical Hebrew sequence, the history of ancient Israel, and first-year writing seminars. Homrighausen is the author of Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: Calligraphy, the Song of Songs, and The Saint John’s Bible (Liturgical Press, 2022). She also co-leads, with poet Fred Levy, a monthly Torah study for Temple Sinai in Newport News, Va.
For more information and to register, go to www.jarted.org.