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In recent decades, a significant body of scholarship has begun to reexamine the interaction and interrelation between Judaism and Christianity in the history of art, from the third century to the twenty-first. For our 2020 CAA session, the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA) invites proposals for papers that further develop this scholarship by exploring moments of significant exchange between Jewish and Christian thought, practice, and/or material culture in the history of art. We welcome proposals from a variety of different approaches and foci, including instances of artists working with Jewish themes or concepts in Christian contexts or using Christian imagery; artists working with Christian themes or concepts in Jewish contexts or using Jewish imagery; instances of collaborative partnerships; instances of generative borrowings and adaptations; or any other instances in which aspects of these traditions mutually influence, inform, challenge, and enrich each other. Proposals can focus on any time period or geographical region, and we encourage proposals focusing on underrepresented artists or underrepresented aspects of familiar artists’ work.