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Join us at the museum for this special symposium related to the featured exhibition, Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940–1970.Judaica (Jewish ceremonial art) and other forms of art depicting or engaging with Jewish history, culture, and identity have typically been the purview of specialized Jewish museums rather than encyclopedic art museums. Today, several art museums in the United States are beginning to integrate Jewish art (broadly defined) into their collections, exhibitions, and research programs in an effort to better weave Jewish experience into the art historical narrative. This symposium is held in conjunction with the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s own Jewish Art Initiative, with which this fall’s exhibition Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940–1970 is aligned.
Symposium speakers will present on recent museum projects and initiatives concerning Jewish art and will discuss the challenges and benefits of displaying Jewish art within an encyclopedic art museum context. We will consider how presenting Jewish art and subject matter alongside works from other cultures can inspire greater understanding of diaspora, exclusion and inclusion, and interfaith and trans-cultural identity and communication.
Featured speakers include:
Sean P. Burrus, Curator of Judaic Art, North Carolina Museum of Art
Juliana Ochs Dweck, Chief Curator, Princeton University Art Museum
Rachel Spiegel Gerstein, Co-Curator, Jewish Art & Culture Research Project at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Jennifer McComas, Curator of European and American Art, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Simona di Nepi, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Schedule:
1:30–3:30 p.m.: Presentations; Martin Commons, second floor
3:30–3:45 p.m.: Coffee Break; Martin Commons, second floor
3:45–4:45 p.m.: Panel Discussion; Martin Commons, second floor
4:45–6 p.m.: Reception with Remembrance and Renewal open for visitors; Museum atrium (1st and 2nd floors; Special Exhibitions Gallery, 1st floor)
The presentations and panel discussion will be livestreamed via Zoom.
Please register here for the Zoom link: https://iu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lSr9VT3rQou9DI_8_-yp0w#/registration
In-person attendees are not required to RSVP or register in advance.
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