Jewish Studio Project

Jewish Studio Project JSP cultivates creativity as a Jewish practice for spiritual connection and social transformation. This is a crisis of spirit and imagination.
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Cultivating creativity is a core competency for navigating the challenges and harnessing the potential of our time. Creativity is the wellspring of our deepest power and among the best tools we have for exploring, adapting, and bringing forth new ways to thrive in our ever-changing world. Creativity is inherent within all of us, yet we live in a society in which most of us are cut off from this es

sential part of who we are. Jewish Studio Project (JSP) exists to address this profound need. JSP was founded on the belief that each one of us is created creative. Over the past seven years, JSP has become a go-to resource for accessible Jewish learning and spiritual connection across the country. Through ongoing community programs, immersive experiences, creative facilitator training and professional development partnerships, JSP is building a movement to activate the creative power of the Jewish community. Rabbi Adina Allen, Co-Founder and Creative Director, developed JSP’s core methodology — the Jewish Studio Process — after identifying a need for new ways of surfacing and processing personal insights from Jewish texts. The daughter of leading art therapist Pat B. Allen, Adina brought practices she learned growing up in an art studio into the beit midrash, while a rabbinic student at Hebrew College. The Jewish Studio Process has been highly valued by those seeking a renewed connection to creativity and a new way into Jewish tradition.

Enter into this season of revelation and emergence. Download Seeing Sounds: A Creative Prompt for Shavuot. Link here: ht...
05/14/2026

Enter into this season of revelation and emergence.

Download Seeing Sounds: A Creative Prompt for Shavuot.

Link here: https://bit.ly/JSP-Prompts

✨ Educator Studio: Virtual Info Session🎨🗓️ Friday, May 15⏰ 10am–11am PT / 1pm–2pm ETAre you a Jewish educator looking to...
05/07/2026

✨ Educator Studio: Virtual Info Session🎨
🗓️ Friday, May 15
⏰ 10am–11am PT / 1pm–2pm ET

Are you a Jewish educator looking to reignite your passion and reconnect to your purpose?

Join us to learn more about Educator Studio, our 8-month cohort experience designed to support creative leadership, reflection, and growth. This info session will give you everything you need to know to apply.

🔗 Learn more & register at the link in bio or here: https://bit.ly/educator-studio

04/30/2026

In a time of stress, disconnection, and uncertainty, one truth is becoming clear: creativity is not peripheral to health—it’s foundational to it.

Research from the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins, led by Susan Magsamen, continues to show how art and imagination support well-being, resilience, and how we process the world.

At Jewish Studio Project, we’ve been doing this work for over a decade—creating structured spaces for creative practice that support reflection, regulation, and deeper connection.

🎥 Watch this clip of Susan’s keynote from We The Process and explore creativity and health
🔗 Full keynote link in bio or here: https://bit.ly/WeTheProcess-SusanMagsamen

✨🎨✏️ Have You Made Art About It Yet? Shavuot Edition with Rabbi Adina Allen 🗓️ Thursday, May 21, 2026 ⏰ 9:00–10:30 am PT...
04/29/2026

✨🎨✏️ Have You Made Art About It Yet? Shavuot Edition with Rabbi Adina Allen
🗓️ Thursday, May 21, 2026
⏰ 9:00–10:30 am PT / 12:00–1:30 pm ET
💻 Virtual & Free!
Our global community gathering each month invites people from around the world into a shared space of creative practice and reflection.

On Shavuot, as we prepare to welcome new understandings and insights, we ask: what truths have emerged within us and moved through us? How might these discoveries nourish, strengthen, and guide us—in our individual journeys and in our shared life?

Using the Jewish Studio Process—a unique methodology blending art therapy practices with a reimagined approach to Jewish learning and spirituality—we’ll honor the gift of insight and begin to weave this emerging wisdom into the fabric of our everyday existence. 🎨💫

➡️ Link to register in bio or here: https://bit.ly/JSP-Programs
➡️ Swipe to view more upcoming programs! ✨

Torah isn’t flat.It has depths—wild, untamed, alive—like the hidden landscapes within us.Right now, in the days of the O...
04/29/2026

Torah isn’t flat.
It has depths—wild, untamed, alive—like the hidden landscapes within us.

Right now, in the days of the Omer, we’re moving through wilderness.
Not just a place, but a state of being.
A loosening. A release.
A willingness to step beyond what we think we know, beyond the beliefs we hold tightly, and listen for something deeper.

The rabbis teach that Torah is given in the wilderness—because only there can we hear it.

Art-making becomes a doorway into that same terrain.
It brings us back to the body, to instinct, to the animal knowing beneath language.
It helps us wander—without needing to arrive.

What if this season isn’t about getting somewhere,
but about entering more fully into the wild places of your own soul?

04/28/2026

Collage begins with what’s already been told—images of beauty, luxury, and lifestyle—and gently lets those stories fall away. What remains is instinct: what catches, what insists on staying.

In this process, Rabbi Adina Allen reminds us that creation isn’t always about control. It’s about listening. About allowing fragments to find each other. About trusting that something new can emerge when we let go of the original frame.

What begins as pieces becomes a world—unexpected, honest, and entirely its own.

Creativity allows us to tend to the complexities, questions, and emotions that make up our inner landscapes. These are t...
04/27/2026

Creativity allows us to tend to the complexities, questions, and emotions that make up our inner landscapes. These are the materials of our lives, and it’s critical that we give them space to shift and transform.

When making art, have you felt your internal materials shift alongside your external materials?

04/24/2026

“A small daily ritual: one card at a time.
Collage, words, drawing—no plan, no outcome in mind. Just showing up and letting the piece become what it wants to be.

During the counting of the Omer, each day holds a quiet invitation to reflect, create, and notice. This practice isn’t about perfection or even intention—it’s about presence. About trusting the process. About making space for surprise.

Day by day. Layer by layer. Breath by breath.

“And in that small act of looking up, we begin to see what was there all along—that something is always shifting, always...
04/21/2026

“And in that small act of looking up, we begin to see what was there all along—that something is always shifting, always opening, always becoming.” ✨🌿🦋

Read Rabbi Adina Allen’s Counting the Shape of Change, a reflection on the Omer as a quiet practice of noticing how transformation unfolds—not in dramatic shifts, but in subtle, continuous movement 🌱📖
🔗Link: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/counting-the-shape-of-change/

Most of what shapes us happens in the small, almost invisible choices: How we respond, where we place our attention, whe...
04/20/2026

Most of what shapes us happens in the small, almost invisible choices:
How we respond, where we place our attention, whether we stay or turn away.

In the studio, we practice this through a few simple orientations, the JSP Studio Rules:
🤫No comment
✨Follow pleasure.
👀Notice everything.
🌀Keep going.

These Studio Rules guide us in art-making, yes. But over time, they begin to travel with us off the page.

What happens when we practice no comment in our lives—softening the constant evaluation of ourselves and others?

What becomes possible when we follow pleasure—not as indulgence, but as a compass toward aliveness?

When we notice everything—our resistance, our longing, the quiet signals of the body?

When we keep going—even through uncertainty, even when the path isn’t clear?

This practice teaches us that creativity is a way of being in relationship with the world.
Everything we do on the page becomes a practice for how we live.

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