The Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem presents “Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” through Dec. 20 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and the Maribeth Collins Lobby.
Drawn from one of the legendary contemporary print collections in the United States, “Witness” explores issues of race, identity and social justice in contemporary printmaking and photography. The exhibition has been organized by Portland art historian and scholar Elizabeth Bilyeu and explores four thematic sections: Stories and Histories, Pressures of Pop Culture, Challenging Expectations of Place and Unconventional Portraits. The exhibition features 82 prints by 40 nationally and internationally recognized artists, including Enrique Chagoya, Lalla Essaydi, Mildred Howard, Hung Liu, Nicola Lopez, Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooka), Roger Shimomura, Kara Walker and Marie Watt (Seneca).
LeRonn Brooks, an assistant professor of African and African American Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York, will deliver an illustrated lecture on the theme of social justice in modern and contemporary art on September 29 at 5 p.m., Admission to this series of lectures is complementary and they will be held in the Paulus Lecture Hall at the Willamette University College of Law located at 245 Winter St. SE, Salem, Oregon.
Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University
Public contact: 503-370-6855 | museum-art@willamette.edu
Exhibition website: willamette.edu/go/witness
IMAGE: Roger Shimomura (American, b. 1939), “Nisei Trilogy: The Camps,” 2015, ed. 4/50, lithograph, 18 1/2 x 27 inches, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, 2015. 794b. Photo: Strode Photographic LLC
HEAD: Salem museum presents social justice print/photo exhibit
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem presents “Witness: Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” through Dec. 20 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and the Maribeth Collins Lobby.
Monthly Mitzvah Project
Each month, the MJCC and PJA communities collect items for different area organizations in Portland.
In November, we will be collecting holiday gifts for families served by Jewish Family and Child Services. Items may be dropped off in the blue bin in the MJCC Lobby near the Member Services Desk.
Nov. 3 has been named a Solidarity Shabbat to stand together to support and comfort each other and the people of Pittsburgh. Whether you gather in a synagogue, share a Shabbat meal or join in with the community in some other way, we hope we can all come together this Shabbat. Many Oregon congregations plan special programming during or after Shabbat services. Oregon Jewish Life has compiled a list of congregations in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Explore the list here and check with a synagogue near you for Shabbat plans.
POSTPONED: NEW DATE TO COME.
This Sunday Conversation honors the artwork and book, In The Shadow of Death, by OJMCHE Holocaust Speaker’s Bureau member Miriam Greenstein (Oct.21, 1929 – April 2, 2018). Miriam spent time in the Lodz Ghetto before being transported to Auschwitz and OJMCHE’s exhibition The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz is dedicated to her. Her book, In the Shadow of Death: A young girl’s survival in the Holocaust, is available at the museum’s Ron Tonkin Family Museum Shop.
This program is in conjunction with the exhibitions Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross, Portland Art Museum and The Last Journey of the Jews of Lodz, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
Rachel Calof’s Story
Follow a dramatized story of Rachel Calof, a Jewish picture bride, as she emigrates from Russia to Devil’s Lake, North Dakota, in 1894, to marry a man she has never met. For four years, Rachel and her husband lived in a 12-by-14 foot shack with her in-laws, her husband’s brother, wife and children, two dozen chickens and a cow. She gave birth to nine children, all of whom survived. She chronicled the story of those years when she was 55 and living in St. Paul. Her manuscript, handwritten in Yiddish, was discovered by her children after her death and eventually published as Rachel Calof’s Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains.
The play was well-received in Seattle, and organizers hope the story’s local connection will draw added interest here; Rachel is the great-grandmother to Sue Perkel, local community member.
Cost: $18. Youth Cost: $10.
Register: oregonjcc.org/rachelcalof
Held at Congregation Beth Israel.
Presented by the Mittleman Jewish Community Center in partnership with Congregation Beth Israel.
Get Fit Israeli Dance with Dorice Horenstein
Tuesdays, Oct. 9-Dec. 11 (no class Nov. 20)
Weekly beginning and intermediate level Israeli dance class helps you get in shape, learn new moves, and listen to fun, Israeli music.
$90 for 9 weeks or $12/week drop-in. Contact JoAnn at: jbezodis@nevehshalom.org
- 9:15 am: Beginning Level—learn Israeli dance steps for novice dancers, lower impact workout.
- 10:15 am: Intermediate Level—for those familiar with basic Israeli dance and ready for higher impact workout.
Infant Feeding Support Group
Connect with other nursing parents to share the joys and challenges of breastfeeding. Join the group if you are breastfeeding, formula feeding, pumping, bottle feeding or supporting a breastfeeding parent. Get answers from Lara Greenberg, a board certifed lactation consultant (IBCLC). Healthy snacks and activities for older siblings provided. Five people needed to run class.
Tuesdays,
October 30, November 6, 13, 27. NO CLASS: November 20
Cost: $20 Members + Guests.
Drop-in: $6 per class
Registration information: CG106, oregonjcc.org/registration
Mah Jongg for Beginners
Learn to play this ancient game. It will give your mind a workout!
Registration Information: CG101, oregonjcc.org/registration
Cost: $100. Member Cost: $85.
Mah Jongg for Intermediate Players
Take your game to the next level!
Registration Information: CG102, oregonjcc.org/registration
Cost: $100. Member Cost: $85.
This is the second in a three-part series that focuses on the art and craft of storytelling. The workshops can be taken independantly and in this workshop the focus is on Immigration–How My Family Got Here. Cassandra Sagan is an ordained Maggid, a Jewish teacher/preacher/storyteller through the lineage of Reb Zalman Schacter-Shalomi z”l all the way back to the Baal Shem Tov. She has devoted her life to helping others access and express creative brilliance through story, poetry, song, and InterPlay, which she calls “play as a spiritual practice.”
Cassandra is a designated Leitzah Kedushah, Holy Clown, on the faculty of JSE, the Jewish Spiritual Education Maggid-Educator Training Program where she teaches Personal Narrative and InterPlay Torah study. She has hosted, taught, and told stories at local schools, libraries, synagogues, churches, and travels around the country to teach and tell. Cassandra shares, “I’m a student of Kabbalah and a mosaic artist and I love to make beauty out of brokenness. Through Story we enter the timeless realm, we can lift up/redeem joy from the past and transform the present and the future. Breishit b’ra Elohim: in a beginning, God starts creating. When we engage our creativity, we begin to know God, which is the goal of Judaism. When we tell our story, through words or silence or song or art, we make a tikkun, we help to repair this world. What’s not to love?”