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Photograph taken outside of Jewish Museum of Maryland. The background of the photo is brightly lit, brick walls, and a tree with yellow leaves. The subject of the photo is a wooden, triangle shaped altar with a grid of yellow plexiglass panels.

Daniel Toretsky, We Would Come Home But You’ve Locked The Door, Mixed-media installation, 2021

Daniel Toretsky is an artist and architectural designer based in Brooklyn. His sculptures, built environments, and urban interventions use participatory design to explore Jewish identity, diaspora, inequality, and climate change. Raised in the Yiddish revival scene, Toretsky’s work is often informed by probing Ashkenazi Jewish rituals, heritage, and history with humor and a spatial focus. Many of his projects embrace Jewish cultural and religious rituals, while interrogating structures of power within the Jewish diaspora. Daniel is a Maryland native, proudly raised in Silver Spring. He grew up in the Adat Shalom Reconstructionist community, which influences the underlying philosophy of his work. 

Daniel Toretsky is a graduate of the architecture department at Cornell University where he has also taught design. He currently designs museum exhibits at Studio Joseph, an architecture firm in NYC. Daniel also rowdily plays trombone in the Hungry March Band, a legendary NYC street band, and Mrs. Toretsky’s Nightmare, a family klezmer band.

 
A black and white print with natural and figural imagery of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

Judith Joseph, Vision Of Spinoza, Hand-pulled woodblock print, 2018

Judith Joseph is a visual artist who works across media: printmaking, painting, calligraphy, installation. She exhibits her work internationally and has work in hundreds of public and private collections. She has participated in fellowships from Spertus Institute and the Amen Institute Visual Arts Project, and is a two-time Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Awardee.

Still from Dangerous Opinions video, featuring footage from the film Dangerous Liaisons. A room with towering balconies full of people who are mid sentence and are dressed ornately. The film was a period romantic drama film.

Danielle Durchslag, Still from Dangerous Opinions, Video collage, 2019 (Original footage from Dangerous Liaisons, 1988)

Danielle Durchslag is an artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions at Denny Dimin Gallery and Yale University. Her work has shown at venues around the world, including The Jewish Museum, the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival, the Invisible Dog Art Center, The Queens Museum, The UK Jewish Film Festival, Winkleman Gallery, The Bronx Museum, Foley Gallery, The Ackland Art Museum, The Moscow Jewish Film Festival, Davidson Gallery, The New York Jewish Film Festival, the Wassaic Project, and the Cannes Short Film Festival. Danielle’s work has been discussed in Photograph Magazine, Clarion Content, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Independent, and The New York Observer, among others. Her short film, Eleanor of Illinois, received a grant from the inaugural cycle of the NYFA Made In NY Women's Film, TV, and Theatre fund. Danielle is a selected fellow of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship. She studied at Wellesley, The Museum School of Fine Arts Boston, and New York University.

Website: www.danielledurchslag.com

Instagram: @ddurch