• Contextual Understanding: To deepen participants' knowledge of Jewish and Israeli visual culture—its histories, tensions, and contemporary expressions
  
  

• Professional Enrichment: To offer access to leading Israeli curators, scholars, artists, and institutions through private tours and critical dialogue
  
  

• Restorative Experience: To create space for participants to process experiences of marginalization, and to re-ground themselves in the beauty and joy of the creative strengths inherent in Jewish culture
  
  

• Allyship in Practice: To provide a framework for non-Jewish colleagues to engage meaningfully with Jewish culture in an environment free of the antisemitism pervasive in today’s art world
  
  

• Network Building: To foster a lasting, international cohort of art world friends committed to cultural dialogue, ethical leadership, and nuanced storytelling

• Guided visits to major institutions, contemporary galleries, artists’ studios, and heritage sites across Israel

• Architectural walking tours highlighting design, collective memory, and urban development in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Jerusalem

• Curated culinary experiences exploring food as a cultural narrative—such as a street-food tour, shopping at the market, and cooking together

• Discussions with Israeli curators, art historians, and cultural thinkers

• Facilitated conversations about antisemitism, Jewish visibility, and curatorial responsibility

• Exploration of Jewish ritual, place, and cultural memory through an art-historical lens

• Visits to Jerusalem’s historic and sacred sites as well as the modern architecture that makes up the Old City

• A richer understanding of Jewish and Israeli contemporary art

• New frameworks for addressing cultural identity and antisemitism in our work and personal life

• A three-dimensional understanding of Israel —as a land, a people, and a culture— beyond headlines and polarization

• Worthwhile relationships with peers and Israeli arts professionals

• A renewed sense of clarity and purpose in dealing with the cultural responsibilities of our roles

For Jewish participants, Reframe means shifting the lens through which we experience the art world—creating a safe, generative space to engage with contemporary and historical art without the weight of trauma or cultural exclusion. It’s about reconnecting with the joy and purpose of creative work grounded in Jewish identity that has led to some of the most beautiful artworks in human history.

For our non-Jewish friends, Reframe is an invitation to move beyond headlines, soundbites, and media noise. It means engaging with Israel as a real, complex, and creative place made special by the people who live and work there. It’s an opportunity to gain new perspectives and seek broader horizons.

We chose the words reframe, restore, and reclaim because they speak to different parts of the same process:

• To reframe is to shift perspective

• To restore is to heal what has been fractured

• To reclaim is to take back agency and authorship
  

Fellowship we chose because this isn’t just a program, it’s a journey. And like all great journeys, it’s better when you don’t go alone. In the most traditional sense, a fellowship is a group of people brought together by a shared purpose. And yes, if you’re thinking Lord of the Rings, you’re not wrong. Like that Fellowship, we come from different backgrounds, bring different strengths, and walk side by side into unfamiliar terrain. For Reframe, that purpose is to rediscover art, identity, and connection in a complicated world. We travel, we listen, we learn, and we reflect - together.

Absolutely yes!!

Reframe is for Jews in the visual arts—collectors, curators, writers, artists, gallerists—who are looking for space to reconnect, reflect, and let go of the weight of cultural exclusion or antisemitism.

It’s also very much for non-Jewish friends who want to deepen their understanding of Jewish identity, and to engage with Israel beyond the headlines through art, conversation, and shared experience. We’re so glad you’re here!

If you’re curious, open, and ready to travel with care and purpose, Reframe is for you.

Get in touch for details, dates, and to join the waitlist!