FRIDAY, APRIL 19 – Mizel Museum curator Georgina Kolber will offer a slideshow presentation and discussion of the Mizel Museum’s hugely successful and enriching art and culture trip to Israel in October 2012. The art and culture trip to Israel was characterized by generosity–of time, energy and soul. All of the artists we met with [...]
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Going On: A Lone Survivor’s Story
SUNDAY, APRIL 21 – Born in Pabianice, Poland in 1929, Jack Adler and his family were swept into the terror of the Holocaust. His parents and four siblings all perished at the hands of the Nazis. In his powerful and inspiring firsthand account, Y: A Holocaust Narrative, Jack (Yacob) tells his story and describes his [...]
The Rare and Magnificent Moss Haggadah
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 – This exceptional work of art by David Moss must be seen to be believed. Moss, one of today’s finest living Judaic artists, revived the marriage ketubah as a major work of art, then turned to illumination and illustration of Jewish texts. In 1983 he was commissioned to create an individual hand-made haggadah [...]
Paper-Batik Painting Workshop
SUNDAY, MARCH 17 – Explore the ancient and exciting process of batik painting—a wax-resist dyeing technique from Japan and Indonesia—with Dr. Martha Heppard. You’ll learn how to apply this ancient technique to watercolor on rice paper. and create a rewarding piece of art to take home. Bring a simple sketch (up to 11” x 18”) [...]
