Call for artists

The call for artists for the 10th Radical Jewish Calendar is here! Organized by Jewish month, layering Jewish & Gregorian dates. Living in Jewish time, learning Jewish and radical movement history.

We are looking for 13 people or teams (no more than 3 people per team) to design the art for each month and the cover. Please note: this year we have a theme. You are invited to submit art, collage, visually compelling text, that explores lineages of resistance as they relate to Jewishness and this moment. 

This can include:

• Historical or liturgical figures who inspire and nourish us

• The more-than-human world and how it resists the interference of humans

• Mystical teachings that inform our resistance and our liberation

• Festivals and holidays of the month

If you are interested in including text in your artwork, we ask that you imagine the text up on a wall and adjust the size accordingly.

How to submit art

Fill out this Google form and upload a high resolution jpeg (300 ppi) that:

• Is horizontal

• Size 8.5” x 11”

• 0.25” border around each side

• Scanned on a flatbed scanner

Submissions due by 28 of Adar 5785 / March 28, 2025

We will let artists know by May if your art has been selected. Artists receive one free calendar and get paid! The exact amount depends upon sales, expenses, and the number of contributing artists. Last year, artists were paid $500, including each artist that submitted on a team. Artists will be paid once the printing and shipping process is complete in the fall. We look forward to creating this with you! Please share this call, and reach out to radjcal@gmail.com if you have any questions.

ORGANIZING TEAM

Jessica rosenberg

Content Editor, Jessica Rosenberg (she/her), makes meeting agendas, tuna noodle casseroles, and, now, calendars. She enjoys getting up with the sun, organizing for the just redistribution of resources, and propagating wandering Jews of all kinds.

Ayeola Omolara Kaplan

Calendar Artist/Layout Editor, Ayeola Omolara Kaplan (She/Her) was the quiet emo girl at the back of the classroom drawing her anime crushes. Today she can still be found swooning over fictional characters and drawing more than she talks. She's fascinated by Jewish magick, abolitionist politics, and psychology.

elissa martel

Art Editor, Elissa Martel (she/her) has been a weird art kid since childhood, and peaked in 4th grade when she sang with Celine Dion. Most recent peak has been working on this amazing calendar with a team of babes, obvi.

Ariana katz

Layout Editor, Ariana Katz (she/her) learned how to do layout from being a nerdy high schooler hiding in the newspaper office and making zines. She likes ritual, intergenerational revolutionary learning, remembering birthdays, and parshat hashavuah.

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The Radical Jewish Calendar is organized by Jewish month, layering Jewish and Gregorian dates, astrological happenings, holidays, and political history. Twelve months of political art, culture, and history made by dreamers, artists, and organizers who want to know what time it is. In 5785, our ninth calendar features art of the Palestine solidarity movement, celebrating anti-Zionist history, exploring themes of doykeit/hereness/diasporism.

As always, we are celebrating Jewish culture that is intersectional, queer, feminist, anti-racist, and that challenges and builds a Judaism and Jewishness beyond Zionism.

This year we will give 18% of calendar sales to Palestinian-led organizations and movement work.

In The News

Jewschool

Jessica about living in Jewish time as a means of resistance, in the Fall of 5778.

Anti-Zionist Embodiment, Breath, and Belonging

What becomes possible when anti-Zionist Jews are more than “included” in a Jewish healing space, but are actually held as the beating heart of the collective?

Treyf podcast

Jessica and Ariana on Treyf Podcast in the Fall of 5778.

Reconstructing Judaism

Reconstructing Judaism commissioned black Jewish artist, Ayeola Omomara Kaplan, to respond to the Movement Wide Day of Learning on Reparations through a piece of visual art.

Days of Awe

Radical Jewish Calendar in the academy! Cited in Atalia Omer’s 2019 book.