News and Updates for October 2026

Jewish Art Education

October 2026

News & Updates

September 10, 2026

Greetings!

As we begin the Hebrew Year 5787, let Jewish Art Education provide meaningful and memorable edutainment to broaden your audience's perspective on Jewish art. Our featured programs during October include:

Jewish Americans and Art: From 1918

The Art of Pissarro: People

Creating Jewish-American Culture: 18th Century to Early 20th Century

Mark Your Calendar!

Our next Virtual Public Program is Sunday, October 25. Registration for Jewish Women Artists opens Friday, September 18 at 8:00 AM. In partnership with Melton+, a companion session will be held on Thursday, October 29 with Rabbi Debra Eisenman. More details are below.

Jewish Art Education is offering subsidized programs for organizations that cannot afford our regular program fees. Funds are limited and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. See below for more information.

About Us:

At Jewish Art Education, we are dedicated to bringing the best in the Jewish visual arts to the widest possible audience. Our mission is to educate the wider world on the contributions of the visual arts to Jewish civilization.

Please let us know if there are additional individuals at your organization to whom this newsletter should be sent, and feel free to forward it to others who might be interested in our programs. We look forward to presenting to your audience.

Featured Programs

October 2026

National Arts & Humanities Month

Shemini Atzeret (10/2 – 10/3)

Simchat Torah (10/3 – 10/4)

World Architecture Day (10/5)

Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples Day (10/12)

National Art Day (10/25)

Statue of Liberty

Liberty Island, New York Harbor

Jewish Americans and Art: From 1918

Self-Portrait

Camille Pissarro, 1903

The Art of Pissarro: People

Mary Silverstein, C. 1910

The Teck Family Collection

Creating Jewish-American Culture: 18th Century to Early 20th Century

Jewish Americans and Art is a six-part overview of the arrival, presence, efforts, accomplishments and thriving of the Jews in America. It covers their entrance in the mid-17th c. through their role in 18th c. Colonial America. It also includes the arrival of German Jews in the mid-19th c. followed by the largest influx of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th c.

Jewish Americans excel in a wide range of fields, from medicine, law, education, entertainment, music, politics, literature, business, sports, and the visual arts. Their success occurred because they were given freedom and the opportunity to succeed. Only in America!

Part 3 of a 6-part series

Each part of the series may also be enjoyed as a single presentation.

The Art of Pissarro surveys the long and productive life and paintings of Jacob Camille Pissarro. He was called the “Father of Impressionism” for his knowledge and support of those artists. In his paintings, he explored many subjects and a variety of aesthetic approaches. He always glorified the landscapes and the people in his works and said that he saw “Beauty in spots where others see nothing.”

Part 2 of a 4-part series

Each part of the series may also be enjoyed as a single presentation.

Creating Jewish-American Culture begins with the richness of the Jewish community in Spain before they were expelled in 1492. The program continues with the arrival of the first Jews in America in the mid-17^th c. and the establishment of the first synagogue. A survey of artists of the 18^th through 21st c., including silversmiths, sculptors, painters, photographers, and architects, follows. Creating Jewish-American Cultureintroduces artists in the New World whose artworks are specific to time, place, and personal experience.

Part 1 of a 2-part series

Each part of the series may also be enjoyed as a single presentation.

Audience Observations

Here is what our audience members are saying about recent presentations.

Follow #AudienceObersavations on our social media channels for more!

JAE News

REMEMBER ME

Barbara Kruger, 1980

Virtual Public Program

LIVE ON ZOOM

Sunday, October 25

7 PM EDT

Jewish Women Artists

with Margaret Green

Registration opens on

Friday, September 18 at 8:00 AM

LEARN MORE

The presentation will be recorded, and all registrants will receive a link to the video. The video will be available for 14 days.

Continue the discussion on Thursday, October 29th with Rabbi Debra Eisenman, a Melton Master Instructor and the Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, where she also serves as Director of the local Melton school. More details will be available when registration opens.

Funds raised from these public programs will assist organizations that could not otherwise afford our regular program fees.

See below to learn more about Subsidized Programs.

Celebrate America:250 with Jewish Art Education

Jewish Art Education is celebrating the United States Semiquincentennial with a special offer on programs that focus on Jewish American Artists!

New Clients - Schedule A Program and Get One Free in 2026

Jewish Art Education (JAE) is pleased to offer 1 (one) free program to any new client who schedules a program at our regular fee through December 31, 2026

Shop at JAE's Online Store for Unique Gifts

STREAMING VIDEOS

Streaming versions of select JAE programs are available for $100.00 each

The Art of Hanukkah

Art Through The Prism of A Culture

DVDs

The following titles are available for $18.00 each

Art of The High Holidays

The Art of Hanukkah

The Art of Purim

The Art of Passover

JAE Holiday DVD Package ($54.00)

4 Jewish Holiday DVDs at a discount!

Curriculum / DVD Package ($36.00)

Jewish Art in Jewish Classrooms Curriculum + DVD

Upcoming Programs

(as of 9/10/2026 - subject to change)

October 2026

Brightview Woodburn

The Art of Pissarro: People

Kindley Assisted Living at

Asbury Methodist Village

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Brightview West End

The Art of Pissarro: People

Discovery Village Chevy Chase

The Art of Pissarro: People

Highlands/KPSL

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Tikvat Israel Women’s Network

Jewish Women Artists

Congregation Beth Emeth

Art Through the Prism of A Culture

Revitz House

Jewish Americans and Art: From 1918

Brightview West End/Wellspring Village

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Woodlands/KPSL

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Chevy Chase House

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

HarborChase of Olney

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Ring House

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Brighton Gardens of Friendship Heights

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Virtual Public Program

Jewish Women Artists

(Registration opens on

Friday, September 18 at 8 AM)

Modena Reserve at Bethesda

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

18th Century to Early 20th Century

Sunrise at Fox Hill

The Art of Marc Chagall:

The Early Years

Cogir of West End, Alexandria

The Art of Pissarro: People

Brightview Alexandria

The Art of Pissarro:

Harvests and Markets

November 2026

Brightview Woodburn

The Art of Pissarro: Harvests and Markets

Kindley Assisted Living / Asbury Methodist Village

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

Revitz House

Jewish Americans and Art: From 1941

Brightview West End

The Art of Pissarro: Harvests and Markets

Discovery Village Chevy Chase

The Art of Pissarro: Harvests and Markets

Highlands/KPSL

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

Jewish Residents of Leisure World

Art Through The Prism of A Culture

Woodlands/KPSL

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

Chevy Chase House

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

HarborChase of Olney

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

Ring House

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

Brightview West End/Wellspring Village

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

Sunrise at Fox Hill

Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows:

East Wall & South Wall

Cogir of West End, Alexandria

The Art of Pissarro: Harvests and Markets

Brighton Gardens of Friendship Heights

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

Modena Reserve at Bethesda

Creating Jewish-American Culture:

After World War II

JAE Calendar

Monthly Featured Programs

Our featured programs each month are only suggestions. If you are new to JAE, consider our overview program, Art Through the Prism of a Culture which serves as an introduction to the scope of Jewish art from the ancient world to the modern one.

In addition, we offer a variety of programs that have multiple parts and can be scheduled as short, in-depth "courses".

Please contact us for more information.

November 2026

Kristallnacht (11/9-10)

Veterans Day (11/11)

Thanksgiving (11/26)

Jewish Americans and Art: From 1941

The Art of Pissarro:

Harvests and Markets

Creating Jewish-American Culture: After World War II

December 2026

Hanukkah (12/4-12/12)

New Year’s Eve (12/31)

The Art of Hanukkah

Jewish Americans and Art: From 1958

The Art of Pissarro:

Family and Friends

Information on our 2027 Monthly Featured Programs will be available soon.

If you are interested in scheduling programs for 2027, please contact us.

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About Our Programs

Jewish Art Education offers enrichment programs for Senior Living Communities, Houses of Worship, Community Centers, and other organizations that serve lifelong learners.

Live Presentations

JAE speakers are available for in-person programs in these locations:

Washington, DC metropolitan area (including the Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs)
Coastal Virginia (including Norfolk, Newport News, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Suffolk)
Chicago metro area
Philadelphia metro area
Los Angeles County

Live Streamed Presentations

If you are outside the geographic region where JAE speakers are available for in-person presentations, consider scheduling an online program.

Please contact us if you would like to explore this program delivery option.

Program Fees

Single Programs - The fee for a one-hour

JAE presentation is $200.00.

Multi-Part Programs - Receive a

discount of $25 per program when

booking the entire series of a

program with 3 or more parts. To

receive the discount the series must

be scheduled over the course of

sequential weeks or months.

Our intellectually stimulating programs are a visual feast, interactive, lively, entertaining as well as educational. These one-hour presentations are shown via PowerPoint either in person or via streaming.

Mornings and afternoons are available for presentations. For the first choice of dates, please contact us if you are interested in scheduling as they will fill up quickly.

Subsidized Programs

If you represent a senior village, residential community for low-income seniors, or an organization that works with underserved populations, please contact us to see how you might benefit from a subsidized program.