The museum is housed within the restored Etz Chaim Synagogue, a turn-of-the-century house of worship. The museum is a venue for contemporary art exhibits feature established, Jewish-connected, and Maine-connected artists and rotate every eight weeks.
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Our current exhibitions are listed below.
Penelope Jones & Deborah Klotz
August 29 – November 1, 2024
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Penelope Jones and Deborah Klotz create work from slow, labor intensive studio gestures in their respective fields. Penelope embraces architectural structure, surface texture, and color interaction in her collages and paintings. Deborah explores ephemeral states of shifting light and weight through material and technical inquiry, building image/object relationships in sculpture and prints.
Ruth Sylmor
August 29 – November 1, 2024
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Ruth Sylmor’s PIXEL-6 photographs portray 14 youthful faces of Shoah children stenciled on mailboxes in the Paris Marais quarter by French street art portraitist, C215. The faces, chosen in collaboration with activist, Serge Klarsfeld, from his collection of photographs of children deported in 1941-44 by cattle car to Auschwitz death camp, were among the over 500 children in le Marais quarter alone, never to return.
Adam Powers
August 29 – November 1, 2024
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
This project is an expression of the artist’s reverence for Portland through architecturally focused documentary street photography of walls and curbside scenes throughout the peninsula.
Camille and Anya Davidson
August 1 – October 7, 2024
Curated by mother-daughter duo Camille and Anya Davidson, this pop-up exhibition features yellow ribbons lovingly hand-stitched by diverse Maine community members in solidarity with the 116 innocent civilians still held hostage in Gaza. The installation is set up “tunnel-style” to symbolize the underground tunnels where many hostages are held captive. Visitors are encouraged to walk through the tunnel to view the ribbons, along with the names and photos of the hostages each ribbon represents. “Stich Them Home” is, at its essence, a community effort to keep the hostages and their loved ones top of mind, and a visceral plea to do everything in our power to bring them all home now.
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