Part of Getty’s Regional Initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles | October 17th, 2024 - March 2nd, 2025
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg harness the beauty and power of trees. ~
BIG THANK YOU
Jenny Traig, was our main researcher/editor, on all the timelines. She is an Author, editor, and lecturer at University of Michigan; PhD in Literature, Brandeis
Designer Nicole Lanzotti, and Pyrographer pyrographer Aakansha Tuteja, who burned alongside Shlain
Advisors who have reviewed the text and given feedback for
DendroJudaeology: A Timeline of the Jewish People:
Deena Aranoff, director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and senior lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies
Melissa Blaustein, founder and CEO of Allied for Startups; associate director of Communications, Acumen; former mayor of Sausalito
Aaron Davidman, playwright, Wrestling Jerusalem
Nathaniel Deutsch, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies; director of the Center for Jewish Studies and director of the Humanities Institute
Steven Dinkelspiel, board co-president, The J
Marc Engel, author
Ann Goldberg, retired teacher and Jewish mother to Ken
Odessa Goldberg, Yale University senior, Cognitive Science
Dr. Erik Greenberg, public historian and museum professional
Tye Gregory, CEO, Jewish Community Relations Council
Rachel Havrelock, professor of English, University of Illinois Chicago
Joshua Holo, vice president of Academic Resources; associate professor of Jewish History. Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion
Selma Holo, curator
Deb Kass, artist
Ethan Katz, associate professor of History and Jewish Studies; director, Center for Jewish Studies; Chair, Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Jewish Life & Campus Climate, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Krasny, professor of English Literature, San Francisco State University; host, Gray Matter
Elissa Strauss, author and artistic director of LABA
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Levi, Lab/Shul
Libby Lenkinski, vice president for public engagement at the New Israel Fund
Robert Mickey, professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Rabbi Sydney Mintz, Congregation Emanu-el
Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Executive Director of UC Berkeley Hillel
Rabbi Kendell Pinkney, rabbinic educator for Reboot and founding executive artistic director of The Workshop
Paula Pretlow, chair and trustee, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Howard Rheingold, author
Douglas Rushkoff, author and research fellow of the Institute for the Future, founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics, CUNY/Queens
Wendy Sachs, filmmaker
Lauren Schiller, author and producer
Rabbi Beau Shapiro, Skirball
Tina Sharkey, Lecturer, Business of Innovations, University of Southern California
Carolina Simon, executive director, Zachor Shoah Inc.
Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel Fund
Krista Tippett, host, On Being
Jenny Wolfe, JCRC Bay Area Immediate Past President