This twelve-minute film looks at how young people’s religious identities can be linked to their practice of the visual arts, and how this can change over time. When Sonia Narang made this film for Practical Matters, an Indian Jewish visual artist worked with high school students at the SAR Academy, a Modern Orthodox day school in New York City. The film shows how the two groups work together.
Siona Benjamin, who is an artist-in-residence at the school, is making a beautiful Torah Ark for it. They should make their art based on the vision of the prophet Ezekiel, which comes from Chapter 1 of Ezekiel, in the Hebrew Bible, she says.
In this lesson, the students make their paintings and drawings, help Benjamin build her Torah Ark, and think about their Jewish identities and personal goals. They also think about why they think it’s important to go to a Jewish school.
Source: http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/2009/10/01/visions-of-ezekiel/
