PUBLICATIONS + PRESS
Joel Silverstein, Richard McBee, Goldie Gross, Abigail Myer, Curators, Genesis - The Beginning of Creativity, Catalog, NYC, 2023
Phyllis Freedman, Curator, One Nation, Catalog, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, 2023
Nancy Heller, Curator, Tzedek Boxes - Justice Shall You Pursue, Catalog, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, 2023
Steven Fine, The Samaritans: A Biblical people, Catalog, Pages: 217–226, 2022
Jean Rosensaft & Ronda Spinak, Curators, Holy Sparks: Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate, Catalog, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, 2022
Matthew Baigell, Jewish Identity in American Art: A Golden Age since the 1970s, April 2020
Ori Z. Soltes, Spinoza- Marrano of Reason, Catalog, Amsterdam, 2019
Ori Z. Soltes, Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture, Canal St Press, 2016.
David Sperber & Dvora Liss, New York / New Work, Catalog, September 2015
Ram Ozeri, The Jerusalem Biennale, Catalog, September 2015, Jerusalem, Israel
Samuel Gruber, Ruth Gruber, Aaron Rosen & Others, Cultural Heritage Artists Project II, Catalogue, March 2012, Detroit MI.
Marilyn Fox, Curator, We Remember: 9-11 10th Anniversary, Catalogue, September 2011, Penn State.
Joel Silverstein & Richard McBee, Curators, The Dura Europos Project, Catalogue, December 2010, New York.
Joel Silverstein & Richard McBee, Curators, Seduced by the Sacred, Catalogue, October 2010, New York.
Hasia Diner, Walter Cahn, Hana Iverson, Karen Shiff, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Cultural Heritage Artists Project I, December 2009
Joel Silverstein & Richard McBee, Curators, Tzelem, Exhibition Catalog, November 2009, New York
Laura Kruger, Curator HUC Museum, Words Within, Exhibition Catalog, February 2007, New York
Karen Harris, Director of Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, course entitled "An Issue of Identity: Reconstructing the Self, Images by Women Artists, 1970-the Present," 1994.
Fred Adelson, Con-struc-tures, Catalog, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, 1993
Gail Levin, Curator, Imagination, Catalog, Peconic Gallery, Riverhead NY, 1993
Laura Hoptman, Curator, The Artist in the Marketplace X, Catalogue, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1990, New York
PRESS
Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Biennale stays on the map, Heddy Abramowitz, March 2024
Jewish Standard, Jerusalem Biennale comes to NYC, Julia Gergely, Nov. 2023
Lilith Magazine, Behold Feminine Power! Jean Bloch Rosensaft, Nov. 2023
NY Jewish Week, With the Jerusalem Biennale postponed due to war, participating artists mount 3 exhibits in New York, Julia Gergely, Nov. 2023
The Forward, What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about ‘Genesis’?Simi Horwitz, July 2023
The Forward, How a new Jewish holiday is inspiring a new Jewish ritual, Laura Hodes, April 21, 2023
Images, A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Jewish Artists Encounter The Samaritans, Steven Fine and Richard McBee, Brill Press, Fall 2022
CANVAS Compendium, Jewish Art Salon: An International Network of Artists and Scholars, Gordon Haber, August 11, 2022
Hadassah Magazine, Holy Sparks: Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate, Rachel Musleah, 2022
Perspectives Magazine, Association of Jewish Studies, The Jewish Art Salon, Yona Verwer, 2022
Modern Jewish Art, Ori Z Soltes, Brill Press 2018
Omnes Magazine, "Als een pilgrim langs Amsterdam's Kruis Staties", Arnoud Boerwinkel, 2021
Jewish Standard, Art as food for the soul - Two Jewish artists from very different backgrounds collaborate in Montclair and the Jewish Art Salon, Joanne Palmer, Oct. 22, 2020
Mosaic, There's Plenty of Significant Contemporary Jewish Art Hiding in Plain Sight, Richard McBee, May 24, 2019
Art & Theology, Walking the Via Dolorosa through Amsterdam, Victoria Emily Jones, April 9, 2019
Het Parool, Om bij stil te zijn: lijden van deze tijd, Edo Dijksterhuis, March 6, 2019
The Independent, Hope Challenges Hate Speech, Joan Baum, January 22, 2019
NY Jewish Week, Art At The Heart Of Stanton St. Revival, Shira Hanau, January 16, 2019
NY Jewish Week, ‘Echoes’ Of Dutch Anti-Semitism, Then And Now, Sandee Brawarsky, December 26, 2018
NJ Jewish Standard, How to be a vegan Jewish artist, Abigail Klein-Leichman, October 4, 2018,
NY Jewish Week, Leah Finkelshteyn, New Art Exhibit Highlights Increasing Invisibility of Women in Jewish Media, July 11, 2018
NY Jewish Week, Aaron Herman, Jewish Comic Con Comes To Brooklyn, April 27, 2018
NJ Jewish Standard, Joanne Palmer, From Jerusalem to Riverdale, February 2018.
Sh’ma Now, cover, Susan Berrin, Editor, Mezuzot | מזוּזֹת| Reminders, February 2018.
Contact Magazine, Steinhardt Foundation, The Book of Yona - The Art of Yona Verwer, Fall 2017.
Times of Israel, Jessica Steinberg, A ‘watershed’ moment for artists at the Jerusalem Biennale, Oct. 7, 2017.
NJ Jewish Standard, Joanne Palmer, Jewish Art Salon Rockets To Teaneck, June 22, 2017.
NY Jewish Week, Joel Silverstein, Layering History And Spontaneous Expression, September 2016.
Jewish in Seattle, Anca L. Szilagyi, Art After Auschwitz, April / May 2016
Bedford + Bowery, Lindsey Smith, LES Artists ‘Still Looking Quirky and Funky’ at This New Exhibit.February 13, 2015
Huffington Post, S. Brent Plate, Religion Is Alive and Well In Contemporary Art, August 18, 2014
Zeek, Artist Q, Artist A: Yona Verwer Talks to Mirta Kupferminc, May 31, 2014
Sh’ma Journal, The Self and Creativity, Basya Schechter, S. Bear Bergman & Yona Verwer May 2014
Zeek, Artist Q, Artist A: Yona Verwer Talks to Ken Goldman, April 24, 2014
The Jewish Channel TV, Meredith Ganzman, Faith & Form (Week in review), February 21, 2014
NY Jewish Week, Gloria Kestenbaum, Anne Frank and her Disciples, January 16, 2014
Hadassah Magazine, Aaron Rosen, Ph.D., United (Jewish) Artists, December 2013
The NY Jewish Week, Caroline Lagnado, Two Artists Address Difficult Issues in Tribeca Exhibit, October 2013
Tachles, Julian Voloj, Successful Artists Network, June 2013
Lilith Magazine, Our Violent Children, features “Protection Amulet Pewter”, Spring 2013
Skirball Center Catalog features “Orach Chaim Blue” on its cover and “Stanton Shul Amulet”, Spring 2013
Shma Journal Online Gallery, A Jewish Lens on Taxation, featured “In God We Trust”, March 2013
The NY Jewish Week, Gloria Kestenbaum “The Eruv: Staying Within Bounds”, February 26, 2013
The Commentator, Yael Roberts, “A Model for Change: The Eruv as Art”, February 14, 2013
Jewish Press, Richard McBee, It’s a Thin Line - The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and beyond, January 11, 2013
Reform Jewish Quarterly, Ori Z. Soltes, Text and Commentary: Contemporary Jewish Art, Winter 2013
Ars Judaica, Matthew Baigell, Social Concern and Tikkun Olam in Jewish American Art, May 2012
Alpha & Omega Arts, Ernest Disney-Britton, Counting the Omer, with Yona Verwer and Tobi Kahn, May 7
Jewish Exponent, Deborah Hirsch, Hillel Displays Slavery / Holocaust Art, March 19, 2012
Jewish Press, Richard McBee, Terror: Artists Respond, September 2, 2011
Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies, Editors Natalie Davidson & Camelia Serghie, Spring 2011: Orchard Hamsa Amulets and Urim & Tumim: Divine Text Messages.
Zeek, Ori Z. Soltes, February 2010: Slavery and the Holocaust.
Art Criticism, Matthew Baigell, Volume 24, Number 2, ’09: Contemporary Jewish Art: A Short Review.
Zeek, Yona Verwer, December 2009: Temple Talismans.
Jewish Press, Richard McBee, December 31, 2009 The Prayer of the Orchard St Shul.
Sh’ma Magazine, Yona Verwer, November, 2009, The Kabbalah of Bling.
2Life Magazine, Julian Voloj, November 25, 2009, Yona Verwer at C.H.A.P
The Jewish Week, June 5, 2009, Text / Context: Photo: Stanton St Shul Amulet.
Jewish Press, Menachem Wecker, May 30, 2009, The Amulet, the Temple, the Disfigured Book, and the Butterflies.
Pajamasmedia, Phyllis Chesler, May 15, 2009, Consolation in a Time of Madness.
Jewess, Rebecca Honig Friedman, April 27, 2009, Jewessy Arts Events.
Iconia, Menachem Wecker, May 10, 2007, Yona Verwer.
Jewess, Rebecca Honig Friedman, May 8, 2007, Jewess Bling Artist Yona Verwer.
NY Daily News, Clem Richardson, April 16, 2007, Charms of New York in her Art.
Jewish Press, Menachem Wecker, March 23, 2007, Jewish Women Talk about their Work.
The Jewish Week, Carolyn Slutsky, January 12, 2007, Art on the Rise.
The Forward, Sarah Kricheff, July 15, 2005, Modern Amulets.
The New Yorker, Boris Fishman, July 29, 2002, Goings on about Town – Yona Verwer.
The Jewish Week, Julia Goldman, June 18, 2002, The Buzz - Yona Verwer.
The Forward, Zack Berger, Yona Verwer and her paintings of the Urim & Tumim.
Jewish Press, Richard McBee, July 5, 2002, Yona Verwer.
The NY Times, William Zimmer, May ’90, Sculpture Dominates in Annual Show of Emerging Artists.
NRC Handelsblad, Reineke Hollander, July 1990, The Real and the Faux Work of Yona Verwer.