Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education explores the legacy of the Jewish experience in Oregon and teaches the universal lessons of the Holocaust. Through exhibitions, programs, educational resources, and opportunities for intercultural conversation, OJMCHE challenges our visitors to resist indifference and discrimination and to envision a just and inclusive world.

Exhibits

Turning Inward, JUDY CHICAGO, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
This exhibition traces Judy Chicago’s development as an artist and Jewish woman across six decades, from her early formal vocabulary of geometric color abstraction and groundbreaking work with pyrotechnics to the powerful explorations of self-identity, the politics of gender, and her personal formative experiences.

Curated by Bruce Guenther, OJMCHE Adjunct Curator for Special Exhibitions, and OJMCHE Director Judy Margles and drawn from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, this exhibition of 35 pieces primarily focuses on works on paper, including preliminary works leading to her monumental work, The Dinner Party, 1979; a stained-glass panel from Chicago’s Holocaust Project, 1985-1993; a cast glass piece, Grand Flaming Fist, 2007; as well as a group of large scale photographic prints of Chicago’s Atmospheres series.

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