FREE ENTRY / The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art - Tikkun Olam: An Exhibition on Healing Our World

The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art (PMJA) at Rodeph Shalom has a long tradition of art exhibitions. Last year, with the reopening of our exhibition programming, we began with an open call exhibition, which turned out to be an overwhelming success, bringing a new vision for community, artists and attendance to our vibrant urban gallery. Our intention with this open call is to build on this momentum by inviting artists to reflect upon and give expression to the theme of “Tikkun Olam” – our duty to confront the challenges of repairing our world. We invite artists to submit works that give expression to this concept.

JurorsA PMJA exhibition committee will be jurying the submissions and will select artworks that respond best to the theme and also work in dialogue as an exhibition. We are pleased to announce that our guest juror this year is Ruth Fine.Fine was a National Gallery of Art Curator for four decades. She has organized dozens of exhibitions and written catalogue essays about several printmaking workshops as well as artists including Romare Bearden, Mel Bochner, Wendy Edwards, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Jasper Johns, Norman Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Martin Puryear and, most recently, Frank Stewart’s NEXUS: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960’s through the Present. Fine was awarded the College Art Association Alfred H. Barr Award for Museum Scholarship for the Norman Lewis Catalogue and The Archives of American Art’s Lawrence A. Fleishman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History, amongst other honors. Fine chairs the board of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and serves as a consultant to the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.