The next chapter for Asylum Arts will include a home in Brooklyn, as part of the development of a new Jewish gathering place: The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life, with Asylum Arts Founder and Director Rebecca Guber taking on the Founding Director role.
For Passover 2021, Asylum’s Betsy Medvedovsky collaborated with Katya Apekina to create Exodus 2021, a self-guided audio tour of the Jewish exodus from Egypt set in Highland Park, Los Angeles. The tour follows the Passover story from Moses’ point of view and includes audio works by eight local artists.
In this feature, Betsy and Katya interview each other about walking their dogs, being Russian-Jewish on the Eastside of LA, the Situationists, and how these experiences led them to create Exodus 2021 together.
In this feature, Asylum’s friend and collaborator Juliet Simmons is asking us to think about what we have in common with refugees around the world today and in the past, a process that she undertook … Read more
Based in Berkeley, The Peleh Residency is one of the few fully-supported, specifically family-friendly residencies in the country, and it emerged from the vision of the Peleh Fund to support both the creative process, and a new kind of cultural infrastructure that honors a commitment to family and work…
