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NYU Bronfman Jewish Student Artist FellowshipCongratulations to our 2008-2009 Bronfman Center Jewish Student Artist Fellows on their incredible work! The JSAF is not being offered during the 2009-2010 School Year, but to find out about other opportunities for students and artists, including modest cash grants, access to space and venues, artist mentoring and professional development, etc. please visit www.artsonthemove.org
Tamar A. Ackerman
Zachary Redler is an active composer, pianist, arranger, copyist, musicologist and musical director in and out of New York City. Last summer Zachary wrote the music for the critically acclaimed musical Perez Hilton Saves the Universe, which won Best Musical Fringe Festival 2008 and Best Musical in the Talkin' Broadway 2008 Summer Theatre Festival Citations. Plans are underway for Perez to play regionally in the 2009-10 season. Currently, Zachary is working on two more shows at Tisch's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program titled May Day and Memory Is The Mother Of All Wisdom. To aid him in his studies ASCAP awarded Zachary the Max Dreyfus scholarship.
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Sara Cooper is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. Sara is a student at NYU Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Look out for her new show, "Memory Is The Mother Of All Wisdom" (book & lyrics by Sara Cooper, music by Zach Redler), readings scheduled for this summer! Recent credits include: "The Yehuatl" through The Dramatists Guild; "A Corpse in the Kitchen," at Shandaken Theatrical Society Play Fair 2008 and at Theater for the New City's Lower East Side Festival (writer, director); "EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION!: THE MUSICAL" at Theater for the New City (book/lyrics, director, actor); "We Love You, Johnny Hero" at New York International Fringe Festival (book/lyrics, director); "St. Jenny of the Morgue" in This Woman's Work Theatre Company's Reveal Festival and in the Tisch School of the Arts Festival of New Work (writer); and "Terrorism & You" at the 13th Street Repertory Company, in the Theater for the New City's Lower East Side Festival, and at the Set In Stone Theatre Company (book/lyrics, director). Sara's lyrics have also appeared in various cabarets around New York City and Massachusetts, including Joe's Pub and Barrington Stage Company. 
Israeli/Argentinean/Brazilian Noam Faingold is currently pursuing his Master’s in music composition at NYU on a Jack Kent Cooke graduate fellowship. He received his Bachelor’s in composition from the University of Tulsa after switching from painting to music. He has also studied composition at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. Noam’s principal teachers have included Samuel Adler, Ezequiel Viñao, Justin Dello Joio, Claude Baker, Roger Price and Joseph Rivers. His music has been performed at venues like the Akademie der Künst in Berlin, Tulsa International Mayfest Summer Arts Festival, Congregation B’nai Emunah and Temple Israel High Holiday services, and even at a bat mitzvah in Oslo, Norway. He has received commissions from members of the New York City Opera and Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, among others. Noam was recently named one of the 20 finalists in the BBC’s “Next Big Thing 2007” competition, from over 2,000 entries from 88 countries. Other honors include 1st place at the Bela Rosza composition composition, an award in music criticism from the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, and research grants from the German American Society, The University of Tulsa and A TURC research grant. Noam currently writes for, conducts and performs with his own rock chamber orchestra The Noam Faingold Orchestra, plays the upright bass with the Brooklyn-based One World Symphony and was recently named composer-in-residence at the Midtown school for the Performing Arts in Tulsa, OK. As a Bronfman fellow, Noam is composing a quintet that combines Tango, Jewish music, rock and classical influences. This work will be premiered at a concert featuring young Middle Eastern classical composers from the New York area.
Max Avi Kaplan was born in New York City and will be graduating from NYU this spring. His work combines a focused interest in set and costume design within an art historical context that draws references from early American history. Max works in a variety of media, including textiles, photography and ceramics. He lived in San Francisco while attending high school and traveled to Paris, France to study urban planning and architectural design. Studying history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia he also interned at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. More recently, he worked at the American Folk Art Museum and the MoMA in New York City.
Adam W. McKinney is the Co-Director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to creating projects and dialogue around culture, class, ability and identity. Its mission is to catalyze community-wide healing and action. McKinney is a former company member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, BéjartBallet Lausanne, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, Cedar Lake Ensemble, and Milwaukee Ballet Company. He was a US Embassy Culture Connect Envoy to South Africa and an artist-in-residence at the South African Ballet Theatre. He taught master classes throughout Cape Town and Johannesburg and choreographed for Agulhas Theatre Works, a mixed abilities contemporary dance company. He is a recipient of the 2008 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the Gallatin (NYU) Jewish Arts grant, and the Bronfman Jewish Artist Fellowship to continue in the research of dance as a catalyst toward systemic change with Ethiopian-Israeli communities in Haifa, Israel. Named one of the most influential African-Americans in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA by St. Vincent DePaul of Milwaukee in 2000, McKinney is an advocate for young people’s liberation and is dedicated to peacemaking through art-making, movement, and dance. He taught the course “Movement, Healing, Ritual and Performance” at the University of Ghana through NYU’s Global Program in the Spring of 2006 and conducted master classes throughout Accra, Ghana for the Ghana Dance Ensemble, the Africana Dance Company, the National School for the Deaf, and the State Mental Hospital. Adam is a New York University Gallatin graduate student.
Yair Oelbaum is an impostor artist who relies on experience for advice. He revels in the perils and omnipotence of intent and views genius primarily as a function of coincidence. Though Yair is primarily a writer, he looks upon artistic categorization by medium as futile and misguided: the production of ‘art’ should be a universal method of self actualization rather than a snobbish rebuff of incorporating creative transformation into the daily rituals of one’s everyday life. Yair once feared movie theatres and tuna fish yet he is only human today. 
Jessica Polaniecki thinks that art is a great way for her to have fun and deceive audiences. Jessica Brett treasures miniatures and other small, charmingly benign figures. She thinks people should play with ‘things’ more often and she animates such things, sprinkling motivation upon the lifeless. Her role models include Britney Spears and Eleanor Roosevelt. She is not allergic to pineapple anymore though her lungs are filled with glitter.
Daniela Stepensky 
My name is Raymie Allison Tand. I am a student at New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development studying Art. Upon graduation in 2010, I will have earned a B.F.A as well as a M.A in Art Education. The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU has given me this incredible opportunity to create artwork through a jewishlens. For this particular fellowship, I will be completing around 8 large scale oil paintings of Jewish women. These paintings address social justice issues including stereotypes, identity and virtue. The artwork will discuss these issues through style and the absence of color.