The Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, the only Jewish museum of its kind in North Carolina, is a Jewish museum created in collaboration with faculty and students in the Jewish Studies program and College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and the greater Greensboro Jewish public.

Focusing on object as agent of faith or identity, the inaugural exhibition of the GCJM, 36+2, shines a light on everyday objects that facilitate contemporary Jewish identity in its varied forms.  Contributors, Jewish residents of Greensboro, North Carolina, were prompted: “Please share a personal object imbued with significance to you as a Jew.” These household objects, their stories and the stories of their keepers are the content for a living archive that makes up the exhibition.

Explore the GCJM inaugural exhibition, event archives, film and history!

Thank you to all who made the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum and our first exhibition, 36+2, an enormous success. Over 150 UNCG students and faculty and Greensboro community members intersected with the project. It could never have happened without you!

A project by UNCG Jewish Studies Program 2019/2020 inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem in partnership with Director of Jewish Studies, Ellen Haskell

In collaboration with: The University of North Carolina Greensboro Jewish Studies Program, Religious Studies Department, Museum Studies Program, College of Visual and Performing Arts and Greensboro Project Space.

Community collaborators: The greater Greensboro Jewish Community, Scuppernong Books, Elsewhere, B’nai Shalom Jewish Day School, Beth David Synagogue, UNCG University Archives

Graphic Design: John Gibbs Catalogue Photography: Irvin Maldonado Gallery Curators: Adam Carlin and Billy Dee

Generously funded by: The Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professorship in Jewish Studies, the Henry Samuel Levinson Program Endowment for Jewish Studies, the Barbara Colchamiro Endowment, the Judish Rosenstock Hyman Jewish Studies Program Endowment, the Milstein Foundation, and the Greensboro Jewish Federation