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The exhibition “Voice to Vision”: Holocaust
Survivors Share Their Experiences through Art” opens in the Gage
Family Art Gallery at Augsburg College on Friday, January 14 and runs
through Friday, February 18. The Augsburg College Art Galleries are pleased
to be sponsoring this exhibition in conjunction with the 17th Annual
Nobel Peace Prize Forum that is being held at Augsburg February 11–12.
This collaborative project directed by David Feinberg,
professor of art at the University of Minnesota, began over three years
ago when Feinberg,
assisted by Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director of the Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies, undergraduate and graduate art students, and professional
artists in the community, began interviewing two Holocaust survivors
who had never shared their survival stories. Employing a variety of techniques
to elicit memories of the past, the visual research team was able to
capture on video, in photographs, and in mixed-media constructions remarkable
tales of terror, hope, luck, and perseverance. The project soon expanded
to include three more remarkable survivors. This exhibition features
fourteen collaboratively conceived works of art, several photomontages,
and video segments of the discussions and art making sessions.
The opening reception for “Voice to Vision”
is Friday, January 21 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. In addition, a special event
will take place on Saturday, February 12 from 10:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
in the Gage Family Art Galley. The “Saturday Seminar” will
include extended video footage and a discussion with David Feinberg and
Holocaust survivors. The public is encouraged but not required to register
for the Forum to attend this special event.
The Gage Family Art Gallery is located at 22nd Avenue
South and 7th Street on the second floor of Lindell Library on the Augsburg
College campus.
The gallery hours are 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday–Friday and 1–5
p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more gallery information call 612-330-1524.
The Voice to Vision website: www.chgs.umn.edu/voicetovision
The Nobel Peace Prize Forum website: www.peaceprizeforum.org |
