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I Thought I Could Fly is a traveling exhibition organized by the American Jewish Museum (AJM), showcasing work by acclaimed photographer Charlee Brodsky. I Thought I Could Fly pairs Brodsky's photographs with personal narratives by individuals whose lives are affected in some way by mental illness. Brodsky's black and white photos portray metaphorical images based on the narratives to capture the essence of each experience. Throughout the exhibit, photos and text work together to destigmatize mental illness. An added dimension to the exhibition is a 13-minute documentary film produced exclusively for this project. The film includes personal interviews with five people whose narratives are included in the exhibit, bringing to life their individual stories, triumphs and trials surrounding mental health issues.
Inspired by her daughter's diagnosis of bipolar disorder and her desire to connect with people and their everyday experiences, Brodsky uses photographic imagery to bring audiences into the routines of people affected by mental illness. Brodsky is a documentary photographer, author and professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University. Her book, Knowing Stephanie, was recognized as one of the American Association of University Presses' outstanding illustrated books of 2004. Street, Ms. Brodsky's book with poet Jim Daniels, won the 2007 Tillie Olsen Award given by the Working Class Studies Association. Ms. Brodsky's work is exhibited regionally and nationally.
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April 2010 through February 2011
The exhibition is made possible through the Staunton Farm Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to improve the lives of people who live with mental illness and/or substance use disorders. The Foundation works to enhance behavioral health treatment and support by advancing best practices through grant making to non-profit organizations in ten southwestern Pennsylvania counties. Additional support is provided by Western Psychiatry Institute & Clinic.
Images from I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion and Despair reproduced with the generous permission of the Bellevue Literary Press.
The AJM is supported in part by grants from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, BNY Mellon Audience Development Fund and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ-FM.
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Fine, Perlow, and Weis Gallery, Kaufmann Building • 5738 Forbes Avenue • Postcard
To Speak Her Heart is an exhibition of prints, mixed media and lithographs, and culminates 10 years of research conducted by the artists on the development and use of Jewish women's devotional prayers. The exhibition reveals rare existing examples of women's prayers and poems that provide a glimpse into the history of women's lives. A hands-on activities guide supplements the exhibition.
This program has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Major funding for the American Jewish Museum is provided by the Anna L. Caplan & Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund administered by the United Jewish Federation Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District and Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ 90.5 FM.
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Berger Gallery, Robinson Building • 5738 Darlington Road • Postcard
Between Heaven and Earth showcases examples of illustrations from Ilene Winn Lederer's newly released publication, Between Heaven and Earth: An Illuminated Torah Commentary. Lederer interprets each of the Torah's 54 parashiyot in a vibrant and unique style. The exhibit includes a selection of illustrations as well as excerpts, in Hebrew and English, from their respective Torah portions. This will be the first time illustrations from this publication are displayed as an exhibit.
Ilene Winn Lederer was raised in Chicago and lives in Pittsburgh. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. A teacher of illustration and design, Lederer has taught at Carnegie Mellon University and the Ivy School of Professional Art. Her work is included in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. The Twelve Tribes of Israel, a series of banners created by Lederer, is displayed in the JCC Aquatics Center in the Kaufmann Building.
Support for the American Jewish Museum is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District, the Anna L. Caplan & Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ 90.5 FM.
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India: A Light Within Postcard • Fact Sheet
TEDx Leadership Pittsburgh 2009 Video: Charlee Brodsky
Odissi Dance with Sreyashi Dey Workshop • Performance
Opening Reception
Sunday, January 31 • 1-3 pm
Berger Gallery
The reception includes a poetry reading by Zilka Joseph, Odissi performance by Sreyashi Dey and artist talk by Charlee Brodsky.
About
Photographer Charlee Brodsky initiates collaborations with writers so that her pictures and their text share equal ground.
Typifying Bordsky's customary collaborative style, India: A Light Within is an exhibit of Brodsky's photographs with creative nonfiction and poetry by poet Zilka Joseph and writer Neema Bipin Avashia. The exhibit is divided into four thematic sections: Kolkata street scenes; photographs of Sreyashi Dey's hands; a photographic triptych; and digital time-based pieces.
Dey, founder of SPARSH Foundation and Odissi dancer, invited Brodsky to India in 2007 to make photographs for the foundation she created. SPARSH funds heart operations for Indian children and behavioral health care for women. Influenced by the experience, Brodsky created a body of work from the photographs she took. She invited writers Avashia and Joseph to collaborate with her to create works conveying a multi-layered experience of India. For the past year, the creative team has been combining photographic imagery, creative nonfiction and poetry to express the depth and complexity of Indian life.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The exhibition is made possible by The Pittsburgh Foundation.
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Tempted, Misled, Slaughtered.
The Short Life of Hitler Youth Paul B.
November 2-December 31, 2009
Exhibit on display in the Fine Perlow Weis Gallery
Opening Reception
Monday, November 2, 2009, 7 pm
Levinson Hall, JCC Kaufmann Building
Guest Speaker: William Meinecke, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Presented in collaboration with The Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh and The American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, and is part of Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project.
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This exhibit narrates the story of the nazification of the youth of Germany focusing on the life and death of Paul Bayer. It shows how the Nazi state, through its control of the education system and through a propaganda effort, seduced the youth of Germany into active participation in its destructive mission.
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This exhibit supported by: The Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh Exhibition Endowment Fund
American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Federal-State partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Body of Work: Philip Mendlow
October 12-December 18, 2009
Exhibit on display in the Berger Gallery
Click here to watch Body of Work: Philip Mendlow opening exhibit
About
The first comprehensive look at his extensive career that spanned nearly five decades, Body of Work surveys
Pittsburgh artist and teacher Philip Mendlow. Drawn from his personal collection, the work in the exhibit represents
the breadth of Mendlow's creative output. Revealing the connections and differences in his two and three-dimensional
forms the exhibit comprises approximately 50 paintings, works on paper and sculptures.
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Beginning as a painter, his work throughout the 1950s and 60s depicts landscapes, nudes, self portraits, still-lifes, and interior scenes. Deeply influenced as a Carnegie Institute of Technology student by notable Abstract Expressionist painter and professor, Balcomb Greene, Mendlow's style hinted toward a strong affinity for abstraction, although his work remained representational. A deft painter, he captured ordinary, idiosyncratic moments and utilized vibrant colors and gestural brush strokes to evoke a sense of mood among his solitary figures.
Turning to three-dimensional work by the late 1960s, Mendlow spent the greater part of his career creating biomorphic, geometric and figural sculptures. Remembered primarily as a sculptor by colleagues, it is in his wood, clay and welded steel sculptures where he fully engaged his interest in abstract rhythms and where his personal vocabulary matured and intensified.
Working at area universities, art centers, high schools and the Allegheny County Jail, Mendlow's teaching career spanned decades. An educator through 2006, a year before his death, he cultivated and influenced numerous aspiring artists, most notably Keith Haring and Corliss Cavalieri.
About the artist: Philip Mendlow was born in Pittsburgh in 1933. After earning a B.F.A. from (then) Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1954, he served in Paris, France, in the United States Army during the Korean War. Upon his discharge, he stayed in Paris, studying printmaking at the venerable William Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17 and painting and art history at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, exploring the Loire Valley, Barcelona and the Balearic Islands. Returning to Pittsburgh in 1958 he established a career as an arts educator, teaching drawing and painting, and later becoming the academic dean of the Ivy School of Professional Art. After the school's 1980 closure he continued teaching art at La Roche College, Carlow University, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh as well as Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts High School (CAPA).
Mendlow exhibited widely throughout the sixties and seventies throughout Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, and his sculptures are in numerous private and museum collections. Although in his later years he concentrated on teaching and caring for his wife, he continued his artistic pursuits, experimenting with new styles and developing new bodies of work. Mendlow was also involved with area arts organizations, including the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors, and Western Pennsylvania Regional Scholastics, where he served in lay leadership capacities. He died in Pittsburgh, in November 2007.
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Funding for this exhibit is provided by the Anna L. Caplan and Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation. The AJM is supported in part by grants from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ-FM
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Nests launches the third of three exhibitions in a year-long series at the AJM entitled Love/Fences/Nests: Projects by Ally Reeves, Ben Schachter and Anna Divinsky.
AJM's Nests by Anna Divinsky on YouTube
Opening Reception and Artist Talk
Thursday, June 4, 7 pm
Reception sponsored by Ellie Baker Feldman
Presentation
Sunday, April 26th 1 pm
"Reflections on Pittsburgh's Resettled Jews from the Former Soviet Union"
Presentation by Harriet N. Kruman, author of The Huddled Masses: Jewish History in the Former Soviet Union: First-hand Interviews with the Émigrés
About
For her residency, Anna Divinsky uses hand painted and textured fiber to construct a larger-than-life bird nest that she will install in the AJM. Throughout the residency she will add to the nest installation, making it change and grow.
Divinsky utilizes nest imagery as a metaphor to examine the impact immigration plays on people's lives and its influence on one's perception of the past and present. She collaborates with people of different age groups from diverse communities, exploring memories of leaving home and building a new life.
While leading a number of workshops and collaborations, each geared toward exploration of old rituals and new customs, the artist will direct students to express their personal experiences, or understanding of migration through art making and story telling. Each group utilizes images of nests and birds as recurring visual vocabulary conveyed in innovative ways. A significant part of the exhibit will be the artist's collaboration with her mother as they embark on a journey of recollecting familiar traditions and art practices.
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine, Anna Divinsky immigrated to Pittsburgh with her family in 1993. Divinsky is currently a member of the adjunct faculty in the University of Pittsburgh's Studio Arts Department and Penn State's School of Visual Arts. Ms. Divinsky received a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Penn State University, and a Bachelor of Art in Studio Arts and Art History from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a member of Group A., Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh.
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The Jewish Chronicle
image credit: Anna Divinsky, Nests (detail), watercolor on silk, 2009
Nests is curated by Leslie Golomb. Funding for this exhibit is provided by The Heinz Endowments' Small Arts Initiative, Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Busis, the Anna L. Caplan and Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation, and an anonymous donor. The AJM is supported in part by grants from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ-FM.
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Fences
Project by Ben Schachter
January 2 - August 31
Opening Reception
Tuesday, March 3, 7 pm
Lecture by Ben Schachter: Jewish Law and Jewish Art
Reception sponsored by Miriam and Jim Leib
Presentation
Rabbi Yisroel Miller of Congregation Poale Zedeck
Sunday, March 22nd 1 pm
Rabbi Miller leads a discussion surrounding the history, development and significance of eruvim.
About
Fences launches the second of three exhibitions in a year-long series at the AJM entitled Love/Fences/Nests:
Projects by Ally Reeves, Ben Schachter and Anna Divinsky.
For his residency, Schachter explores the concept of eruv, a Hebrew term meaning "to mix or join together." The function of an eruv is to protect Orthodox Jews from transgressing prohibitions against carrying on the Sabbath, which is considered a form of work. An eruv also creates a particular community by conjoining private and public properties into one larger domain, extending the boundary of private space into public space. Using the concept of eruv as a launching point to consider the intermingling of public and private, Schachter invites visitors to explore how community defines their lives and how their experiences are shaped by the community they live in. Together, they experiment with ideas of sacred space in urban areas through various art making exercises.
Schachter is coordinating the fabrication of a large communal eruv that evolves from participants using tape on the museum floor to mark their navigation and daily routes. This encourages people to experience their physical movements through space and to reflect on the proximity of their movements to others. He is also leading a series of workshops culminating in a community eruv installed in the museum. The themes of the workshops are influenced by surveys visitors submit that answer questions prepared by Schachter about definitions and meanings of home, community and neighborhood.
Ben Schachter is currently Chair and Professor of Fine Arts at Saint Vincent College. He received a master of fine arts from Pratt Institute, a master of science in art history and criticism, and bachelor of art from Wesleyan University. He has published numerous scholarly articles on the subject of post-modern sculpture and lectures regularly on contemporary art.
Love/Fences/Nests is curated by Leslie Golomb and is supported in part by a grant from The Heinz Endowments' Small Arts Initiative and the Anna L. Caplan and Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation. The AJM is supported in part by grants from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. . Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ-FM.
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Eruv: Its History and Development
Presentation
by Rabbi Yisroel Miller of Congregation Poale Zedeck
1 pm, March 22, 2009
About
Corresponding with Fences, AJM's current exhibition, Rabbi Miller will discuss the meaning, history, and above all, the spirit symbolized by the eruv as well as that spirit's significance for both Jews and non-Jews. Fittingly, when Rabbi Miller took the pulpit almost 24 years ago, his first public talk was at the dinner inaugurating the Squirrel Hill Eruv.
In addition to being the Rabbi of Congregation Poale Zedeck in Squirrel Hill, Rabbi Miller is a member of the executive committee of the Vaad, the Rabbinical Council of Greater Pittsburgh, and is the author of four books of essays on Jewish thought.
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Falling In
By Ally Reeves
January 5 - August 31, 2009
Exhibit on display in the Alex & Leona Robinson Building
About
Falling In launches the AJM's new season, Love/Fences/Nests: Projects by Ally Reeves, Ben Schachter and Anna Divinsky. The artists will each participate consecutively in a three-month residency presenting multi-media installations that result from collaborations with community members. They will set up studios in the AJM gallery and complete their installations while working in the museum, which will be open to the public.
The informal, experimental ambience of Love/Fences/Nests will intrigue audiences as the artists unsettle notions of how art is customarily displayed in museum spaces, while stretching the boundaries of traditional art. Although each project will be on view independently, the concepts of feeling at home in public and the intersection of public versus private spheres in everyday lives, weave the exhibits together.
Ally Reeves, "Falling In"
Reeves' Falling In is a synergistic happening between her and members of the community. During the first phase of the exhibition, participants share with her their stories about falling in love. Reeves then transforms the narratives into illustrations and a Flash animation, seen here, as the basis for the exhibition. Interpreting participants' personal stories, Reeves explores how cartoons and animation use both representational and abstract visual language and messages to narrate the human condition. Falling In is a synthesis of low-tech social engagement, new media techniques, performance and installation.Reeves' Falling In is a synergistic happening between her and members of the community. During the first phase of the exhibition, participants will share with her their stories about falling in love. Reeves will then transform the narratives into illustrations and Flash animations as the basis for the exhibition. Interpreting participants' personal stories, Reeves will explore how cartoons and animation use both representational and abstract visual language and messages to narrate the human condition. Falling In is a synthesis of low-tech social engagement, new media techniques, performance and installation.
Like Falling In, many of Reeves' projects explore the dissolution of boundaries between art and life. Bringing art to people in an outdoor setting, she bicycled through Pittsburgh's parks with the Look-See Tree, a human-powered mini-theater she constructed and attached to a bicycle that was part of the Robot 250 program offered in conjunction with Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. Combining art with social action, she helped organize The One Mile Meal and The One Mile Garden, projects in collaboration with inner-city and rural communities exploring their relationship with — and understanding of — their local agricultural resources including food production, distribution and sustainability.
Reeves is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Carnegie Mellon University, a CMU fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the founder of the Mobile Museum, a project funded by a Seed Award from the Sprout Fund.
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Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Post-Gazette Review
Love/Fences/Nests is curated by Leslie Golomb. Funding for Falling In is provided by The Heinz Endowments' Small Arts Initiative and the Anna L. Caplan and Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation. The AJM is supported in part by grants from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, and the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts, the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ-FM.
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"A Window to My World" (A project of the Galilead Initiative)
July 27 - October 31, 2008
Opening Reception
Sunday July 27, 7pm - 9pm
Robinson Building
About
A photography exhibit of life in the north of Israel representing the work of 70 Israeli Arab & Jewish photographers.
The GaliLead Initiative is a partnership of United Jewish Communities,
United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
Exhibit Curator: Effy Umiel-fadida
"A Window to My World" is sponsored by The Fine Foundation, in collaboration with the American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh.
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Resonance, Disintegration, Transport and Reintegration
April 28 - August 1, 2008
Paintings and prints by Pittsburgh artist Juliana Morris
Hebrew letterforms provide the inspiration for Resonance, large, Lambda metallic C-prints in mandela-like formations. Disintegration, Transport and Reintegration, acrylic paintings on canvas incorporating Hebrew letters and inspired by a lengthy study of Kabbalah, will be exhibited in the Fine/Perlow Weis Gallery. As a contemporary visual artist, Morris explores the intensity of the mandala in conjunction with the calligraphic qualities of Hebrew letterforms seeking to focus the attention of viewers and establish a meditative experience.
Funding for this exhibit is provided by the Anna L. Caplan and Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation. The AJM is supported in part by grants from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ-FM.
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Making Hope Happen
February 18 - May 16, 2008
Exhibit on display in the Berger Gallery
When introduced into a social environment, visual art can produce effects greater than or equal to other forms of social communication. Left alone, cherished visual artifacts are no different than any other object. Works of art can have poignant and lasting social impact, but generate their meaning only when viewers start communicating with and about them.
The exhibition Making Hope Happen uses the communicative potential of art to transmit a diversity of life issues faced by people throughout the Pittsburgh community. Eight regional artists were chosen for this cooperative project of the American Jewish Museum (AJM) and Jewish Family & Children's Service (JF&CS). The artists include Leslie Ansley, Matt Forrest, Leslie A. Golomb, Adam Grossi, Wendy Osher, Philip Rostek, David Stanger, and Dror Yaron. The artists have created works that interpret stories of individuals served by the JF&CS and the pieces range from site-specific wall drawings and kinetic fabric sculptures to paintings, prints, and photographs.
Funding for Making Hope Happen is provided by grants from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Reed Smith LLP, Anna L. Caplan and Irene V. Caplan Endowment Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation, The Fine Foundation, Staunton Farm Foundation and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
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Body Maps - The Bambanani Women of Capetown, South Africa
February 11 - April 18, 2008
Exhibit on display at both the AJM and the offices of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation
Body Maps are artworks created by a group of women, The Bambanani Womens Group, based in Cape Town, South Africa. The Bambanani Women were invited to tell their stories through a community outreach program initiated by the AIDS and Society Research Unit of the University of Cape Town (ASRU) and M?Šdecins Sans Fronti?¨res. This program began to document the lives of this group of HIV+ women who were given access to drug therapies. With the help of Cape Town-based artist, Jane Soloman, the participants created Body Maps- life size images tracing the contours of their bodies that visualize the virus and articulate each individual history.
Drawn on life-sized panels of butcher paper, "body maps" are made by tracing two bodies: one of the artist and one of a partner. The artist then goes about filling in the traced bodies with images, words, patterns, designs and scars. A type of art therapy, the maps are used in conjunction with group therapy, photography and writing in order to help each woman deal with her HIV-positive status.
Body Maps clearly pull viewers into a direct dialogue with South Africa's epidemic AIDS problem. One is asked to identify with individual women on a highly personal, emotive basis. Ultimately, the images of hope and beauty are used as qualitative research tools as well as instruments for narrative therapy and treatment literacy programs. For the AJM, this exhibit is an extension of its mission and ongoing collaboration with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, by using art to engage crucial universal issues. Art is therapeutic and necessary in our lives, and this exhibit really does exemplify that concept.
Funding for this exhibit is provided by the Anna L. Caplan and Irene V. Caplan Philanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Federation Foundation and the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Falk Foundation. The AJM is supported in part by grants from the Allegheny Regional Asset District, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Media sponsorship is provided by WDUQ-FM.
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Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 - 1945
November 18, 2007 - January 12, 2008
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi leaders waged a ruthless campaign against people deemed "enemies of the state." Hitler's regime, driven by a racist ideology, carried out the mass destruction of six million Jews in the Holocaust and implemented a murderous program of "race hygiene" to cleanse German society of "foreign-blooded" Roma (Gypsies), carriers of hereditary diseases, and "aberrant" social behaviors, including homosexuality. The Nazis did not seek to exterminate all German homosexuals but endeavored to change their "erroneous" sexual behavior through forced "re-education" or, failing that, isolate their "contagion" from society.
View the online exhibition developed by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Of the Painted Image
Miriam Cabessa, Seth Cohen, Peter Rostovsky
August 10 - November 2, 2007
Of the Painted Image was developed with the hope that through the encounter with the exceptional work of leading contemporary painters, viewers can develop a greater and more expansive understanding of what it is to be a contemporary Jewish artist and what we envision when we say Jewish art. This inaugural exhibition included paintings by New York City based artists Miriam Cabessa, Seth Cohen and Peter Rostovsky.
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Seasons | The Fabric Art of Tina Rieger
June 4 • June 29, 2007
Exhibit on displays at the Fine, Perlow, and Weis Gallery
This memorial exhibition will display over 20 works by fabric artist Tina Rieger, including two chuppahs (wedding canopies) made for her children's wedding, a technicolored Joseph's coat and many other beautiful fabric pieces that celebrate a diversity of Jewish themes.
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The Forgotten Photographs: The Work of Paul Goldman 1943-1961
March 12 - May 31, 2007
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The Forgotten Photographs: The Work of Paul Goldman from 1943-1961, from the collection of Spencer M. Partrich, displays over 100 historic images documenting Eretz-Israel during the final years of the British Mandate and Israel's struggle for survival during its first thirteen years. Goldman's privileged access, first as a British Army member and later as a journalist befriended by Israeli leaders, offers a front row perspective of personal moments at a time of sweeping, historic change.
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Pittsburgh City Paper
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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If My Eyes Speak | Photographs by Adam Nadel
December 18 - February 23, 2007
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The exhibition included 30 photographs and accompanying text interviews which provided viewers with poignant portraits of individuals that have been affected by or have perpetrated acts of genocide, specifically engaging the experiences and histories of Bosnia, Darfur, and Rwanda.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh City Paper 01/18/07
Pittsburgh City Paper 03/01/07
Please stay connected with local efforts by visiting the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition's web site.
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Body: In Diaspora | New Work by Maritza Mosquera
September 7 - December 1, 2006
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Body: In Diaspora was a community art project that brought together Somali and Jewish refugees for dialogue on their emigration experiences and their process of assimilation in a new society. The archives of their conversations along with biographies of the participants through video and prints are components for this new installation work by artist Maritza Mosquera. The American Jewish Museum supported this project and exhibition.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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118-60 Metropolitan Avenue | Paintings by Joan Linder
April 24 - July 15, 2006
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The exhibition included over 20 exceptional paintings by acclaimed New York artist Joan Linder, providing viewers with touching depictions of the events and memories held within the walls of her grandparent's apartment at 118-60 Metropolitan Avenue in Queens, New York. 118-60 Metropolitan Avenue | Paintings by Joan Linder was presented in its entirety for the first time at the American Jewish Museum and we are proud to have mounted such a comprehensive exhibition of this important work.
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