Six Points Fellowship Announces New Artist Cohort in New York City

The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists recently announced its 2010 New York City cohort. Nine artists were selected, all of whom are working on an original project that explores a thoughtful connection to Jewish ideas and Jewish cultural expression. Their projects range from a rock opera about Bernie Madoff, to a graphic novel exploring the classic advice column from the Yiddish Forward newspaper, to a theatrical thriller dealing with anti-Semitic medieval beliefs about Jewish male menstruation. Spanning the genres of visual art, performing art and music, the nine artists represent an exciting mix of flourishing Jewish culture in New York City.

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History

1999	Avoda Arts launches as a fiscally-sponsored project of the University of Southern California. Co-founders Carol Brennglass Spinner and Tobi Kahn team up with a small band of educators and curriculum professionals, eager to integrate the arts in Jewish learning.
2000	An exhibition of Tobi Kahn’s ceremonial art, entitled AVODA: Objects of the Spirit, begins a six-year tour of over 40 college campuses and gallery spaces in 19 cities across the country. College students engage in a brand-new kind of conversation about art, ritual, and community.
2001	Offering a new take on an old story, Avoda creates an NYU Artist Seder. Artists like Frank London, Pearl Gluck, Basya Schechter, and Judith Sloan join students, artists, and community members, and offer their own creative perspective on the Passover themes of freedom, exodus and renewal.
2003	Avoda Arts is incorporated as an independent 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. Avoda Arts and the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU launches The New York Jewish Student Film Festival, a showcase of emerging Jewish filmmakers from around the world.
2004	Avoda begins a three-year period of fiscal sponsorship to JDub Records, a non-profit record and event production company striving to build community through innovative Jewish music and cross-cultural musical dialogue.
2005	Avoda Arts launches a program partnership with The Jewish Lens, a curriculum exploring values and community through the photography of Zion Ozeri.
2006	Avoda launches its educational film series, Reel Learning. The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists is established as a partnership of Avoda Arts, JDub Records, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and made possible by major funding from UJA-Federation of New York. Co-founder Tobi Kahn is awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
2007	The Foundation for Jewish Camping invites Avoda Arts to teach at its Cornerstone Fellows program, a leadership training and professional development initiative for third-year camp counselors. Avoda's Arts on the Move initiative is launched.