about reframe
Welcome to Reframe! My name is Taiga Bentley. I own a contemporary art gallery in Toronto, founded by my Jewish immigrant grandmother in 1973. I was raised to treat artists like family, with the belief that my home is their home, and that we are all united in support for one another.In May 2025, I traveled to Israel seeking clarity, connection, and perspective. I spent my time visiting galleries, meeting artists, and walking through spaces layered with history. But what surprised me most was the joy! The colour! The conversations! The way contemporary life unfolds right alongside centuries of memory and infinite complexity. I returned home feeling recharged, and realized this was an experience meant to be shared.The Reframe Arts Fellowship is a curated, immersive arts and culture pilgrimage to Israel for Jewish professionals in the arts and our non-Jewish friends. Its purpose is to create space for learning, reflection, and restoration. By submerging ourselves in the art, architecture, history, and heritage of Israel — and by engaging directly with the people shaping its culture — we have the opportunity to reconnect with purpose, identity, and each other through our mutual passion for art.Reframe is a first-of-its-kind cultural and community initiative. Through shared meals, museum visits, studio tours, and honest conversation, Reframe creates opportunities for learning, healing, and transformation. Participants return home not only inspired, but better equipped to challenge misinformation and foster meaningful connections across communities. We dream ambitiously of pairing these trips with robust, year-round programming at home in Toronto, to one day include exhibitions, artist talks, screenings, and our Reframe Shabbat Dinner Series. Reframe was founded in response to an urgent need: Jewish voices in the arts are increasingly isolated — facing cultural exclusion and deep disconnection from traditional spaces of Jewish life. At the same time, many non-Jewish friends are eager to understand Jewish identity and complexity more deeply, especially in a global climate marked by polarization and misinformation. A StandWithUs Canada program, Reframe strives to champion firsthand experience over headlines, curiosity over ideology, and the belief that storytelling, art, and presence have the power to reframe the narrative.Your support helps reframe the arts as a space of resilience, solidarity, and hope.What People Are Saying
“I’m a lifelong atheist with a strong affinity for Jewish culture; so many of the artists that I have been most influenced by come from a Jewish background. I love the way the culture nurtures the value of a questioning outlook and in this way accepts complexity and celebrates intellectualism, irony and humour.
The veneration of these attributes has been in alarming decline in recent years, and the Reframe Arts Fellowship provided the opportunity to experience history, architecture, culture, horror, joy and art in such abundance and through interaction with so many different people that we met there that I’m still reeling from it a week later. I am enormously grateful to have been a participant, and wish it were magically possible for everyone to do so.”
- Tyler Bright Hilton, artist
“As a Canadian Jewish artist with deep ties to Israel and her people, participating in the Reframe Arts Fellowship has been one of the biggest blessings I could ever receive. There has been a steady decline into isolation, loneliness, and rejection over the last few years, and I have been longing for something hopeful. This opportunity to travel with people I respect and admire, to share learning and experiences both challenging and beautiful, and to immerse myself into the successes and struggles of both the arts community and the people of Israel, will nourish and stay with me always, and inspire me in my way forward. I am forever grateful to Reframe for this incredible, unique, and immeasurably meaningful opportunity, and would encourage anyone - Jewish, non-Jewish, those who have travelled to Israel before and otherwise - to consider applying for an upcoming cohort.”
— Noah Gano, curator
“THE AMOUNT OF HOPE I’M GETTING FROM THIS PROJECT IS INSANE. GENUINELY HAVE BEEN SO UNSURE ABOUT MY PLACE ENTERING THE ARTS INDUSTRY AS A JEWISH PERSON RIGHT NOW, AND THIS IS GIVING ME SO MUCH FAITH THAT IT CAN WORK OUT.”
— McGill Grad
“This was the most amazing, scary, whirlwind, cry-face and inspiring trip I’ve ever been on. I felt sleepy before visiting Israel, complacent. I was watching events unfold in a part of the world I had never been to from a safe and righteous distance. As a result of this experience, I feel more accountable and connected to what is happening in Israel and how it impacts my Jewish friends and colleagues.”
— Artist Ally
“The mark of a mature artist is when the interpretation of their work can sustain multiple and even contradictory readings at the same time. The situation in Israel requires this kind of approach and away from the binary thinking taking over the world.
I am so excited by having been there at this time. I'm excited to share my excitement and see where that goes. Before I went, I didn't know how to speak about Israel. Now, I do. It is so scary for people to talk about Israel right now, and I'm no longer afraid to broach the subject.”
— Shelley Adler, artist
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