A Note from JACC

Weʼre delighted to share news of our newest exhibition, The Space Between, premiering this November 2025 in the Chicago area and preparing to travel nationally through 2026–27.

Curated by Beth Shadur, this exhibition brings together the 10 members of Jewish Artists Collective Chicago (JACC) with creative partners from a range of disciplines—artists, poets, musicians, writers, performers, and philosophers. Each pair spent eighteen months exploring what happens in “the space between” — between two people, between image and word, between art and spirit.

“This space is a liminal, creative realm — a place for dialogue, uncertainty, and ultimately, transformation.”

— Beth Shadur, Curator

This theme can be understood in many ways: as the distance that connects or divides, the dialogue between disciplines, or the transformative “in-between” where creativity takes shape. Through trust, imagination, and open exchange, each pair explored how collaboration itself can become a process of discovery, vulnerability, and renewal.

The JACC artists have partnered with poets, writers, musicians, and performers, each bringing a unique voice to the shared exploration of art and connection.

The creative pairings are as follows:

Beth Herman Adler & Dina Elenbogen

Let the Trees Hold Rain Long After

Cyanotype with powdered pigment, ink, and acrylic on paper.

Adler and Elenbogen explore the meeting point of image and word. Dinaʼs poem about memory, rain, and renewal encircles Bethʼs circular cyanotype of swirling dogwood leaves — a lyrical meditation on life, transformation, and the sacred connection between art and nature.