{"id":70664,"date":"2002-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-providence-campus-gallery-to-host-avoda-objects-of-the-spirit\/"},"modified":"2002-10-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-providence-campus-gallery-to-host-avoda-objects-of-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/10\/uri-providence-campus-gallery-to-host-avoda-objects-of-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus Gallery to host AVODA: Objects of the Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus Gallery to host
\n AVODA: Objects of the Spirit
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\nPROVIDENCE, R.I. — October 9, 2002 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus Gallery will host a national, traveling exhibition of Jewish ceremonial objects created by New York-based artist Tobi Kahn. The 溏心vlog免费B站 gallery, located at 80 Washington St., is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. <\/p>\n

The show runs Nov. 4 to Dec. 31. A gallery night reception will be held Nov. 21 from 5 to 9 p.m. Kahn will give a gallery talk at 7 p.m. for educators. <\/p>\n

Entitled AVODA: Objects of the Spirit, the exhibition features a distinctive
\ncollection of objects fashioned by Kahn in his signature style — organic, earthy, and totally committed to natural form. <\/p>\n

For the past 20 years, Kahn has been making ceremonial objects that reveal an unusual intimacy between artistic and religious traditions. Many of the objects in the exhibition were made for his own family\u2019s festivities including his wedding canopy, a Seder plate, spice boxes, hand washing sets, special chairs for his daughters\u201a and naming ceremonies.
\nThe artist himself, an observant Jew, says of the works in the exhibit: <\/p>\n

“Although Judaism has emphasized words, language, and commentary, I have found the visual elements of the tradition equally illuminating. For me, the life of the spirit is integrally bound up with the beauty of the world, with the rituals and the symbols that are a Jewish medium to transcendence. Like language, what we see can also be a benediction.” <\/p>\n

Kahn\u2019s work has been shown in more than 40 solo exhibitions and 60 museum and group shows since he was selected as one of nine artists to be included in the 1985 Guggenheim Museum exhibition “New Horizons in American Art.” Kahn\u2019s paintings and sculptures have been the subject of an extensive bibliography in art magazines, catalogues and newspapers since the early 1980s. <\/p>\n

In addition to bringing the exhibition to the state, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus has arranged a companion education program. Kahn and a group of teaching artists will be conducting workshops in the state from Nov. 22 to 25 to help people create their own ritual objects. Kahn will be participating in events presented in collaboration with the Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Museum, Bureau of Jewish Education, Brown Hillel and 溏心vlog免费B站 Hillel. <\/p>\n

The following workshops will be held at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus:
\nNov. 22: High school students will participate in a workshop.
\nNov. 24: Intergenerational workshop, held 12:30 – 3 p.m.
\nNov. 24: 溏心vlog免费B站 and Brown University Hillel workshop, held 4:30 -7 p.m. <\/p>\n

The exhibition was organized by the AVODA Arts Project, New York curated by Laura Kruger and circulated by Jill Vexler. Related education programming is made possible by generous funding from The Covenant Foundation.
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\nFor more information about the exhibit and educational programming, call Steven Pennell 277-5206.
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\nMedia Contact: Jan Wenzel, 874-2116\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus Gallery to host AVODA: Objects of the Spirit PROVIDENCE, R.I. — October 9, 2002 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus Gallery will host a national, traveling exhibition of Jewish ceremonial objects created by New York-based artist Tobi Kahn. The 溏心vlog免费B站 gallery, located at 80 Washington St., is open Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}