new member welcome packet

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New Member Welcome Packet

Enclosed in this welcome packet:

Introduction to JAI

Past Programs

Current Programming and Upcoming Programs

Outline of Membership Benefits

Introduction to our Website

How to Begin your Artist Profile


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Introduction to JAIThe JAI is an artist organization committed to fostering visual art by Jewishartists and promoting dialogue about Jewish identity and related issues amongmembers of the arts community. JAI was conceived in 2004 by a group of artistsacting as social entrepreneurs with a generous grant from the Jewish

Community Foundation of Los Angeles in partnership with the University ofSouthern California Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role inAmerican Life and the USC Gayle Garner Roski School of Fine Arts.

The goal of the Jewish Artist Initiative has been to establish a forum for artistswhose work is informed by their identity and to create avenues of support fortheir work in relation to the Jewish cultural sphere. The JAI is a community-based organization involving Jewish artists at all stages of their careers with amission to serve both the artists needs and the larger community.

Membership Benefits

Ongoing juried group and solo exhibitions featuring JAI artists

Mentoring opportunities pairing young artists with established artists

Panels, events, and workshops with celebrated artists, art historians, and highprofile members of the LA arts community

JAI Member Lectures: ongoing screenings of members' artwork

Ongoing international cultural exchange opportunities focusing on Israel

JAI invites all artist members to create a personal profile on the JAI website.(The website is a resource often consulted by public and private artsorganizations including curators. Many of our members have receivedopportunities as a result of their inclusion on our website.)


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Past Programming

In the first four years of this initiative, JAI has generated exhibitions, programsand lectures that reached thousands of Los Angeles community members. Thepanels and lectures organized by JAI have featured prestigious national figures

including Max Kozloff, Matthew Baigell, James E. Young, Nancy Berman, andConnie Wolf. The JAI was invited to mount ambitious theme-based exhibitions insix venues from Los Angeles to New York City all of which included additionalprogrammatic elements such as panels and roundtables.

Current Programming:The JAI program was recently awarded A Cutting Edge Grantfrom the Jewish CommunityFoundation. These funds were in support of an ambitious JAI project entitled, The Quest forTransformational Jewish Art. The goal of this project is to increase artistic connections toIsrael by nurturing exchanges between regional and international artists, encouraging

Top left and rightinvitations from two past

JAI exhibitions

To the left is a picture froa 2009 JAI event Doikayt:Community Wide Arts andYiddish Seder


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connections between Los Angeles artists and scholars and their counterparts in Israel forresearch and study of mutually beneficial topics that will encourage the creation of newwork by artists from both communities.

We are currently creating an Artists Beit Midrash. This would be a group whose primarygoal is to meet and study the connection between observance and the arts. Threeexhibitions are scheduled for our membership during fall 2009 at Hebrew Union College-JIR,

USC Hillel, and the American Jewish University (AJU) all in Los Angeles.

Upcoming Events Spring2010

SAVE THE DATE | JAI Artist Beit Midrash Meeting | Westside JCC |

Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 9:30 11:00 am Guest Speaker Rabbi Denise Eger, Senior Rabbi Kol Ami

SAVE THE DATE | JAI All Member Meeting| Thursday, March 25 |Home of JAI member Gilah Hirsch| 7:00-9:00 pm

The Jewish Artists Initiative Southern California in partnership with the JewishCommunity Foundation of Los Angeles, the Israeli Consulate, the Jewish


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Federations TA/LA Partnership, and the George Billis Gallery-LA present:

Orit Hofshi: Between the linesGeorge Billis Gallery-LA | March 22 - April 10, 2010

A Series of Conversations and Interactionswith Noted Israeli Printmaker

Exhibition details regarding Orit Hofshi:Between the lines

Where: George Billis Gallery LA | 2716 S. La Ciengea Blvd

| LA, CA 90034Dates: March 22- April 10, 2010Hours: Tuesday- Saturday 10 am 6pm

Details regarding Orit Hofshi: Interactions and Conversations

Wednesday, March 24, 7:00 pm 9:00 pmOpening Reception | Orit Hofshi: Between the lines

Where: George Billis

Gallery-LA

7:30 Artist Talk

Thursday, April 1, 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

Artist Salon | A Night of Persian CultureThursday April 1, 2010 |7 PM

Come celebrate the Persian-Jewish Legacy with USCHillel and JAI at Shula Nazarian's historic mid-centuryA.Quincy Jones home. The Salon will feature David Abir,Shahram Farshadfar, Krista Nassi, Mitra Forouzan,Soraya Nazarian and Jessica Shokrian. JAI Artist inresidence Orit Hofshi will also be part of this evening.

Directions sent via email after RSVP is received


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Friday, April 2, 4:00- 6:00 pm

Los Angeles Printmaking Society Reception HonoringOrit Hofshi

Where: George Billis Gallery-LA

4:30 Gallery Walk-Through and Artist Talk

RSVP for all events to: [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Introduction to our Website

June 19, 2009

Dear JAI Members,I'm pleased to announce the launch of the redesigned JAI website -- sameaddress as before: http://www.jaisocal.org/The site looks much the same, but is powered by new programming.Making Calendar entries now, for example, should be a breeze. RegisteredArtists, when logged-in, will notice new step-by-step instructions added to

input pages -- such as "JAI Members: Submit a Calendar Listing" andothers. If you have questions, there's always the "contact our webmaster"link at the top of these pages. Registered Artists can now, also, display upto nine photos of artworks and four videos on their personal page.We've tried to be careful and make everything perfect, but little thingscan get overlooked. As you check out the new site, please make note ofanything not functioning as you'd expect and let me know. Call me at(760) 238-8618 or email: [email protected] From this pointforward, we have three weeks free technical support from ourprogrammers.If you've forgotten your user name or password, I can retrieve them -- justlet me know.

New members are invited to upload your info and portfolio samples. For instructions onhowto create your artist profile click on the link: http://www.jaisocal.org/registration/artist

Thanks, and enjoy the new site,Chris GarlandWebmaster, [email protected]


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Beginning your JAI Artist Profile

1. Go to the link:http://www.jaisocal.org/registration/artist

2. You will see the following screens:

3. Be sure to mark on number 3 all appropriate mediums inwhich you work. Website users are able to search our website byspecific media as well as artist names.
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4. You can upload up to nine images to your profile. You canchange these images at any time. Be sure the each image is in .jpgformat and that the largest dimension is not more than 600px(pixels)

How to Find the Pixel Ratio of an Image

In order to determine the pixel size of the photograph you want toupload you can open the image in Photoshop. Then click on word


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Image on the top menu. Then click Image Size on the drop downmenu.

You will then see a window that gives the image size or pixel dimension ofyour image.


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You want to make sure that both the width and the height do not exceed600 pixels.

This image is too larg

upload since both thewidth and the height

exceed 600 pixels.

This image is perfect tupload. The height is 6

pixels and the width is

under 600 pixels.


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5. Once you have checked the sizes of your images the nextstep is to upload your images to your artist profile page.

6. Next you can also upload videos. Follow the steps in number8.

7. Submit your profile and Mazel Tov on creating your JAIArtist Profile Page!

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