Melissa Shiff's JAMS will be exhibited in group show with Aya Ben Ron (Israel), Mircea Cantor (France/Romania), Vandana Jain (USA), Gary James Joynes/Clinker (Canada), Jennifer Zackin (USA)

September 22 to December 4, 2011

Visit the event page on kofflerarts.org


Melissa Shiff has been appointed to a three year term in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. Her title is Assistant Professor. During her tenure, her research will be focused on the SSHRC Insight Development Grant "Mapping Ararat."


has awarded Melissa Shiff a major grant for the research and creation of her collaborative project: Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project.

This project will utilize the cutting edge technology of augmented reality to imagine an alternative history for Grand Island New York creating an on site walking tour for this Jewish homeland originally proposed by Major Mordecai Noah in 1825.

Shiff's collaborators are new media artist, Professor John Craig Freeman of Emerson College in Boston and photography and new media historian, Professor Louis Kaplan of University of Toronto.

Stay tuned as the project progresses...


Digital Demonstration of Mapping Ararat (work in progress)

November 9, 2011


Lecture for 31st Annual Holocaust Education Week

Sponsored by Oraynu Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Toronto
and Don Heights Unitarian Congregation.

Thursday November 3rd 2011
7:00 pm
Don Heights Unitarian Congregation 18 Wynford Dr., Ste 102, Toronto