Steph Kudisch

thank you to everyone who came and supported our solidarity & art action for Palestine last night!! big thanks to @rubberneckr via @hyperallergic for your words ❣️ profound thanks to all speakers for your powerful voices & dedication @champchampchampoy @b.a.a.a.g @karidahlgren @sfmomaworkers4palestine @micahbazant @jvpbayarea @depreci8bb @ashhayart 🍉 to gorgeous musicians @brassliberationorchestra @oliviaglowstick & Skylar 📯 to deeply wonderful printmakers @in_the_field_of_rye @qrwhzgub @susscakes @butwhole.press @jacoblirosenberg we love you!! 💞 to all of fellow artist organizers with CJAFP. to everyone on the JVP bay area art team for so much support & care, as well as all comrades who helped make this happen 💫 we are so verklempt. keep applying pressure to all arts and cultural institutions to disclose & divest!!!! PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!

🙌 Yesterday over 200 people gathered outside the SF Contemporary Jewish Museum with California Jewish Artists for Palestine and @jvpbayarea to demand they call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and support the Palestinian Campaign for Cultural Boycott of Israel. The theme of the exhibition is ‘Connection’ — but how can we connect to our Jewish values and our humanity without doing everything we can to stop a genocide? Many of the artist-organizers of last night’s protest were accepted into the show but withdrew their work in solidarity with Palestine. Inside the museum, exhibiting artist Vanessa Thill @depreci8bb broke off a piece of her sculpture and said Mourner’s Kaddish with a a small group, in remembrance of Palestinian and Jewish lives lost. Outside, she addressed the crowd: “With this crack, may we crack open empire” California Jewish Artists for Palestine released this statement: “As anti-zionist Jewish artists with long-term commitments to both Palestinian Liberation and Jewish community, we call on the Contemporary Jewish Museum and ALL Arts & Cultural institutions to end complicity with Israeli war crimes and racist, white supremacist zionist political ideology NOW! We can and must use our public platforms for nothing less as Jewish Arts & Cultural Workers” — Read full statement and SIGN ON at tinyurl.com/cjafp-letter [link in @jvpbayarea bio] 🙌 We call on the Contemporary Jewish Museum to: - Call for a permanent ceasefire - Disclose funding & boards of trustees - Divest from institutional partners who participate in Zionist genocide - Sign on to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel - Center Palestinian voices & Decenter white Ashkenazi Jewish voices - Stop normalizing & reinforcing zionism - Oppose Israel’s apartheid, occupation and genocide against Palestinians

TODAY!! JUNE 6 5:30-7:30 Live screenprinting! Music & performance! Speakers from our friends @b.a.a.a.g @sfmomaworkers4palestine Bring art prints & posters to swap! Please wear a mask and your keffiyeh. A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE ACTION WITH CALIFORNIA JEWISH ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE! 📍OUTSIDE OF THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM (DURING THE CALIFORNIA JEWISH OPEN), 736 MISSION ST. IN SF. (Closest BART is Montgomery St.) “As anti-zionist Jewish artists with long-term commitments to both Palestinian Liberation and Jewish community, we call on the Contemporary Jewish Museum and ALL Arts & Cultural institutions to end complicity with israeli war crimes and racist, white supremacist zionist political ideology NOW! We can and must use our public platforms for nothing less as Jewish Arts & Cultural Workers. We want Palestinian life to continue! We are for liberation! Our group represents a diversity of experiences and relationships to Jewishness: we are multiracial, queer and trans, Mizrahi, Sephardic and Ashkenazi, observant and secular. Many of us have been indoctrinated into zionism and have been unlearning it for many years. Our Jewish tradition teaches us that we are made in the divine image with the unique capacity to create. As artists, we choose to CREATE, not destroy! We are approaching this as Jews, with radical love-- which means honesty, openness and true recognition of "Connection," the theme of the exhibition at Contemporary Jewish Museum that we refuse to participate in.” See you there, CJAFP

support @hospitalityhousesf THHE AUCTION ❣️ excited to share that my ceramic piece, transverse wave vessel 2, is a part of the silent auction, bidding ongoing! you can view it in person at the Community Arts Program, 1009 Market St, SF. 🌊

Join us Thursday June 6 for a family-friendly creative action with California Jewish Artists for Palestine! Outside of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St. in SF. 🍉We demand the museum disclose their funding sources, divest from Israeli apartheid, and focus on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Live screenprinting! Music & performance! Bring art prints & posters to swap! ⏰When: Thursday June 6th, 5:30-7:30pm 📍Where: 736 Mission St. San Francisco, Outside the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Closest BART is Montgomery St. 🎨What to wear: Please wear a mask and your keffiyeh. Learn more about California Jewish Artists for Palestine & sign on to support at tinyurl.com/cjafp-letter (Link in JVPBA bio!) [Image description: much of the above text written in black in block print style, with a white background featuring a red poppy spray painted with a stencil, red flowers and green stems and leaves.]

NO BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING A GENOCIDE. ‘It feels like there’s an attempt to make it look like we’re the ones refusing to engage in dialogue, artist @steph_kudisch said. “But this is not the time for dialogue. We want a complete and permanent cease-fire and an end to the genocide.” Thanks @maxblueofficial Thanks to CJAFP community — we keep growing! Thanks to our cross solidarity movement friends: @b.a.a.a.g @sfmomaworkers4palestine @pass_for_a_free_palestine @jewishmuseumchicago @jvpbayarea @aroc_bayarea @thebadfund A FREE PALESTINE IN OUR LIFETIME.

We reassert our refusal as an act of love and solidarity: WE REFUSE TO NORMALIZE! WE REFUSE TO BE CO-OPTED! FREE PALESTINE. San Francisco, CA. (April 5, 2024) -California Jewish Artists for Palestine (CJAFP) refuses to participate in Art World “business as usual” as the genocide of Palestinians continues. Since we pulled out of the California Jewish Open at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, there has been a sea change and the Liberation of Palestine seems closer than ever before! The student movement for Palestine has been a guiding light of hope and public pressure has been working! Still, as israel continues assaults on Rafah, millions of Palestinians, mostly children, are forced to “evacuate” with no safe destination. Now, more than ever, is the time to declare with unambiguous and unequivocal clarity that Palestinians have the right to live in freedom, and that US-funded genocide is abhorrent and needs to end immediately. As anti-zionist Jewish artists with long-term commitments to both Palestinian Liberation and Jewish community, we call on the Contemporary Jewish Museum and ALL Arts & Cultural institutions to end complicity with Israeli war crimes and racist, white supremacist zionist political ideology NOW! We can and must use our public platforms for nothing less as Jewish Arts & Cultural Workers. We want Palestinian life to continue! We are for liberation! Our group represents a diversity of experiences and relationships to Jewishness: we are multiracial, queer and trans, Mizrahi, Sephardic and Ashkenazi, observant and secular. Many of us have been indoctrinated into zionism and have been unlearning it for many years. Our Jewish tradition teaches us that we are made in the divine image with the unique capacity to create. As artists, we choose to CREATE, not destroy! We are approaching this as Jews, with radical love— which means honesty, openness and true recognition of “Connection,” the theme of the exhibition at CJM that we refuse to participate in. END THE GENOCIDE NOW! FREE PALESTINE! Good Shabbes. cajewishartists4palestine@proton.me Big thanks @bigbigbigthings @steph_kudisch @arielletonkin @shopysobs

¡VIVA PALESTINA! image description: black and white collagraph print that Steph made while co-facilitating a printmaking table at the @jvpbayarea Passover fundraiser on sunday with their friend Is. the print says “viva Palestina!” in big all caps letters with a Palestinian poppy flower centered below the text, all printed from cut paper. on either side of the poppy are two corners of the piece of paper it was cut out from, showing the cut out shapes of the poppy’s leaves. in the top two corners there are printed pieces of cut ribbon folded, curving around the word “viva”.

NOT IN OUR NAME. ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸 Gratitude to @nananastia @kqedarts PALESTINIAN LIBERATION IS COLLECTIVE LIBERATION. There is power in refusal. There is power in rescinding. In the words of @shopysobs : “[We’re] putting our energy toward creating something new, visible-izing our perspectives toward drawing that attention to Israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and, obviously, Palestinian resistance and resilience.” “I wish for some ethical clarity and backbone and courage.” 💛 If you are antizionist Jewish arts worker and want to be involved: we are looking to make space with you.

Thank you @officialstromberg & @hyperallergic for uplifting our creative resistance ✊🏼🍉🇵🇸 Image 1: Ava Sayaka Rosen @beesandthingsnflowers , Arielle Tonkin @arielletonkin , and collaborators, “Morocco to the Bay: A diasporic Prayerformance” (2023) (photo by M. Fields, all images courtesy the artists) Image 2: Krivoy Kolektiv @krivoykolektiv (Aravah Berman-Mirkin @zhyd0vka , Sophia Sobko @shopysobs , Irina Zadov @irinazadov ), “The Four Mitzvot of the Queer Soviet Jewish Diaspora” (2021), digital photographs of hand-embroidered Ukrainian headscarves Image 3: Steph Kudisch @steph_kudisch , “nisht keyn tsedek, nisht keyn sholem” (2023), linocut on muslin, 9 x 10 inches Image 4: Kate Laster @howlingmoondog , “Solidarity is Essential” (2023), collagraph on paper, 11 x 17 inches We’re honored to be in this (growing!) minyan of artists resisting Zionist institutions: @bigbigbigthings @howlingmoondog @arielletonkin @beesandthingsnflowers @steph_kudisch @shopysobs @micahbazant @jules.co @rebekaherevstudio @whatliat and more …

proud to be a part of Creative Growth United ❣️ come to our rally, today at noon!! cross-movement solidarity and care is everything. there will be speakers from @creativegrowthunited @pass_for_a_free_palestine @omca.wu & @b.a.a.a.g as well as bubbles, prints & other treats 🫧🗯️📣💭🫧 it will take place outside of sfmoma, on the sidewalk with some seating provided, amplified sound, and ASL interpretation. we are affiliated with @cwuafscme @afscmecouncil57 @afscme 🫧🗯️

we refuse to be a part of the artwashing of genocide. San Francisco, Calif. (April 5, 2024) - Today, a group of Jewish anti-zionist artists, California Jewish Artists for Palestine, have announced the withdrawal of their artwork submissions from the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s California Jewish Open exhibition. Artists initially chose to make a statement to the @jewseum by submitting to the Open Call in a coordinated effort to bring visibility to anti-zionist Jewish artists in California, with anticipation that their works would be rejected by museum curators. While several of the pieces were accepted, the museum’s responses and inability to meet artists’ demands, including transparency around funding and a commitment to BDS, reaffirmed for artists the importance of adhering to and demanding PACBI (The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) in the Arts. The artists call on all cultural workers worldwide to join the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement to abstain from collaborating with institutions that continue to normalize genocide and Israeli Apartheid. The Contemporary Jewish Museum has been a target of the BDS Movement for having received funding directly from the State of Israel as well as private zionist philanthropists. Past boycotts of the CJM have shed light on previously listed museum donor The Helen Diller Family Foundation, which has directly supported Israeli settler organizations while also funding the repression and doxxing of anti-zionist activism through the website, Canary Mission. (continued in comments)