The GCJM Book/store

The Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum collaborated with Scuppernong Books, a local, independent bookstore in downtown Greensboro, to bring you The GCJM Bookstore. North Carolina poets Jessica Jacobs and Richard Chess curated a collection of titles by Jewish authors of all genres residing in North Carolina.

Copies of the GCJM catalogue can be purchased on location or see below…

Print Copies & digital download of the GCJM 36+2 Catalogues available HERE

II.  This is a collection of “Jewish” objects.

Over the last few years I have become occupied in my art practice with objects.  More specifically, the question, What makes an object sacred?, has held my curiosity and has been the driving force behind recent research, bodies of work and projects. For while every religious community has sacred objects that are activated for ritual purposes, when, I have wondered, is the moment that an object shifts from being mundane to being sacred? And who has the agency to determine this transference of status? Can an object be deemed sacred just because the appropriate blessings or invocations have been stated? While there is restfulness in relying on an object to be sacred simply because it was made for sacred purposes or with sacred intent in mind, beneath this we understand that only a human’s or a community’s relationship to the object can truly make it sacred. So what rests at the nexus of the relationship between the object and the human that makes it sacred or imbues it with significance? . . .   

from the GCJM Catalogue introduction…