January 9 – February 28, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
This exhibition captures the artist’s emotions and reflections since moving to Maine in August 2022. “Upon arrival, my artistic style has evolved, as I’ve experienced a newfound calmness in my work,” says Graff. “These paintings were created in a bright, sunny corner of our condo in Munjoy Hill, where limited space did not limit their expansive, spatial quality.”
January 9 – February 28, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
This body of work was made to highlight the beautiful script of the Hebrew language in a modern presentation using a combination of handmade paper, collage and printmaking.
January 9 – February 28, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
This exhibition is presented in cooperation with the Haifa Museums in Israel.
On Friday, January 19, 2024, “Japanese sushi girls” gathered to prepare sushi for the soldiers at the front in Israel.
“While they prepared the sushi, there was a harmony and order among them that charmed me. Six women, six life stories full of decisions, fears and hopes. Among the decisions is the decision to live in Israel … They decide to tie their fate to the fate of my people and show solidarity at this difficult and complex time. Their actions draw together a thread of grace, kindness, and magic.”
Japanese Sushi Girls is presented in partnership with the Haifa Museum/Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art.
January 9 – February 28, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
“In 1993, the year of the infamous “Blackhawk Down” in Mogadishu, Somalia, I was the official photographer for the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM). I traveled via armed vehicle convoys, helicopters, military transport planes and armored personnel carriers. I photographed meetings of dignitaries, grip-and-grin handshakes, Somali warlords and war ladies, multinational peacekeepers and ordinary Somali citizens.”
Audrey Gottlieb, documentary photographer, is best known for her work on American immigration in the borough of Queens, New York. A graduate of Temple University, Gottlieb has worked as a photographer, educator and researcher. She joined the United Nations in 1973, serving in public information, photography, editing and translation positions in New York, Geneva, Nicosia, Nairobi and Mogadishu. She resides in York, Maine.
March 6 – May 2, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Masha Ryskin is a Jewish immigrant from the former Soviet Union. The two artists have been collaborating since 2011 and developing themes that deal with memory, displacement, and passage of time.
March 6 – May 2, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
“Masks had been a central theme in my work for more than a decade when the events of 2020 rattled our country. Maybe it was the sense of instability, but my total lack of creative response was quite puzzling. Patiently, I waited and, with time and perspective, ideas began bubbling to the surface, resulting in his body of work… This work is about our current state of vulnerability, the subconscious, and the corners of ourselves, individually and collectively, that exist in darkness.”
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