November 6 – December 31, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
In 1989, the Jewish artist R.B. Kitaj coined the term Diasporist Art, calling for an art “in which a pariah people, an unpopular, stigmatized people, is taken up, pondered in their dilemmas.” Today, a new generation of Jewish artists is pondering what it means to be displaced or uprooted, sketching out and creating connections across many communities and identities. This exhibition is guest curated by Dr. Aaron Rosen, Executive Director of The Clemente Course in the Humanities; Founder/Director of the Parsonage Gallery; Visiting Professor of Sacred Traditions & the Arts, King’s College London. Artists include Rosalba Breazeale, Matt Jones, Susan Klein, Aaron Margolis, Meirav Ong, and Naomi Safran-Hon.
Exhibition Sponsor:
Leir Foundation, in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir.
November 6 – December 31, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Personality tests show me to be an ambivert – dead center between intro and extro. On the fence. My art requires spending a lot of time there.
November 6 – December 31, 2025
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
Throughout his photographic series in the snowy mountains of the Rocky Mountain West, Jesse Melchiskey explores the dichotomy of the highs of breathtaking vistas and ascents on snow and rock with the lows of numbing classes and the empty feeling when the drugs and adrenaline wear off.
January 8 – February 26, 2026
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
This exhibition features work by six Maine-based artists working in printmaking processes such as photo polymer etching, screen print, mono print and woodcut. Together they explore many types of “scapes:” land, city, mind, memory …
January 8 – February 26, 2026
Maine Jewish Museum
About This Exhibition
For the last 45 years of his life Morrie completed 146 tapestries. Over that time, his work was exhibited and sold, and today, 63 tapestries remain in the care of the Morris David Dorenfeld Foundation. Trained as a painter, the artist considered his tapestries “Paintings in Fiber” and often said of his work, “Color is King.”