Exhibitions
Jewish Museum Milwaukee and the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies are pleased to present an exhibit of works by Russian Jewish artist Felix Lembersky (b. Lublin, Poland, 1913; d. Leningrad, 1970), whose art takes the viewer on a journey through the Jewish experience in the Soviet Union. His canvases capture a complex world where life, faith, and the creative spirit persevere amid war and state-sponsored terror. Educated under both the Soviet avant-garde and the formative years of Socialist Realism, Lembersky realigned realist and modernist forms to create emotionally charged and thought-provoking imagery that served as a viable alternative to state-mandated art.
This exhibition is organized by the Jewish Museum Milwaukee and the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, curated by Molly Dubin, Jewish Museum Milwaukee and Joel Berkowitz, Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Stahl Center. It is co-sponsored by the Art History and History Departments of UWM, the Women's Club of Wisconsin, the Uniterra Foundation and is part of the Peck School Year of the Arts 2013 celebration, and the Stahl Center's Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project.
Thursday, March 14, 7:00 pm
Presentation on the life and work of artist Felix Lembersky featuring the artist's granddaughter, Yelena Lembersky and Professor Joel Berkowitz, Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dessert Reception.
Cost $8; RSVP needed
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Friday, March 15, 8:30 AM
Soviet Jewish artist Felix lived in Leningrad and traveled extensively throughout the small towns of middle Russia and the Urals where his experiences informed his work. Lembersky's granddaughter, Yelena Lembersky, architect and project director at The Uniterra Foundation, will deliver a talk in Russian about his cultural and contextual influences. Bagels, juice & coffee.
Cost: $5; RSVP needed
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Sunday, March 17, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM; Curators' Talk at 2:00 PM
The community is invited to join co-curators Molly Dubin and Joel Berkowitz to view this unique exhibit and hear about the life and work of Soviet Jewish artist Felix Lembersky as well as the paintings and drawings specially selected for this show, the first at a public museum in the United States.
Cost: Free for members, $5 for non-members; RSVP requested
Thursday, April 11, 7:00 PM
Honoring Marianne Lubar, Jewish Museum Milwaukee founding president, and highlighting Russian musical traditions. The Fine Arts Quartet, "one of the gold-plated names in chamber music" (Washington Post), ranks among the most distinguished ensembles of our time, with an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive recording legacy. Founded in Chicago in 1946, and based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1963, the Quartet is one of the elite few to have recorded and toured internationally for over half a century.
Cost: Free Event; RSVP needed
Thursday, April 25, 11:00 AM
Free Event; bus transportation provided - to arrange transportation, contact Tanya Arbit, tanya.arbit@gmail.com or for additional information, contact the Museum.
Wednesday, May 29, 11:30 AM
Lecture by Christine Evans, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of several Russian topic publications including, "Song of the Year and Soviet Culture in the 1970s." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 12, 3 (2011) and "A Panorama of Time": the Chronotopics of Programma Vremia." Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space, 2 (2010).
Cost: Free for members, $5 non-members; RSVP needed
Monday, June 10, 11:00 AM
The Jewish impact on Russian literature can be traced back close to 1000 years. Explore influential works and authors with Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin Madison. This program is part of an on-going collaborative series with the Mosse Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at UW-Madison.
Cost: Free for members, $5 non-members; RSVP needed .
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