BRAIDED MEMORIES:

An Exhibition of Poetry, Image, and Sound

Presented by Case Western Reserve University, CWRU’s Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, and the Maltz Museum

March 20 – April 27, 2023

Art Gallery, Kelvin Smith Library

11055 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland

Chilean Jewish poet, author, and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín, and Chilean Jewish photographer, Samuel Shats bear witness as artists to the striking realities of refugees both past and present, real and imagined. They capture a universal truth of human struggles to find a home in arresting depictions of just a few who have faced such challenges.

Agosín’s poems hover between Austria and Chile, shifting from the past of the Holocaust to the present in dizzying transitions forming narrative braids. Shats’s photography forms a dialogue with these migratory poems and expands the aesthetic experience of the audience, providing both relevant visual information and more subtle, complementary metaphors to Agosín’s poetic work.

BRAIDED MEMORIES:

Exhibition Opening Reception with Marjorie Agosín & Samuel Shats

Thursday, March 23 @ 4 pm

Art Gallery, Kelvin Smith Library

11055 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland

ANDY WARHOL’S JEWISH ICONS: 10 PORTRAITS

Presented by The Temple Museum of Jewish Art, Religion and Culture of The Temple-Tifereth Israel

Portraits on display through June 30, 2023

The Temple-Tifereth Israel

26000 Shaker Boulevard, Beachwood

Created by the artist himself in New York City in 1980, the 10 individual silkscreen portraits on paper feature Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, and Gertrude Stein. Often considered to be the most influential contemporary artist of the twentieth century, the prints showcase Warhol’s iconic style with bright colors and bold imagery. Executed at a mature moment in Andy Warhol’s career, the portraits showcase the artist’s ongoing exploration of famed subjects as well as religious identity.

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Explore the Lives of Warhol’s Jewish Icons with Noted Speakers

SIGMUND FREUD: The Human Subconscious, Science & Religion with Rabbi Jonathan Cohen & Vera Camden of KSU and Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center

Sunday, March 12 @ 3 pm

The Divine Sarah: An Intimate Visit with Legendary Actress SARAH BERNHARDT

A one-act play written and performed by Anne McEvoy directed by Jacqui Lowy

Sunday, March 26 @ 3 pm

GOLDA MEIR: The Only “Woman in the Room” with Rabbi Yael Dadoun

Sunday, April 23 @ 3 pm

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Scientific Genius, World War II & Jewish Existence with Rabbi Jonathan Cohen

Sunday, April 30 @ 3 pm

GERTRUDE STEIN: Salon for Pride with Jane Rothstein, Librarian & Archivist

Sunday, June 11 @ 3 pm

Braided Memories

with Marjorie Agosín

The Journey of Helena Broder

During the Holocaust

Wednesday, March 22 @ 4 pm

Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

Clark Hall, 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland www.case.edu/artsci/bakernord/events

Diaspora, Memorialization, and Identity

Wednesday, March 22 @ 7 pm

Maltz Museum

2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood www.maltzmuseum.org/events/braided-memories

What does it mean to seek refuge? How does it feel to be welcomed or denied entry into a new country? What does it mean to leave your home to seek safety far away?

Dr. Marjorie Agosín explores these questions through the story of her great grandmother, Helena Broder, who fled her home in Vienna for safety in Chile in the wake of Kristallnacht.

On The Threshold Of Oblivion

with Samuel Shats

Portraits of Holocaust Survivors in Chile

Friday, March 24 @ 12 pm

Landmark Centre Building

25700 Science Park Drive, Beachwood www.case.edu/lifelonglearning

Portraits of Holocaust Survivors in Chile

Friday, March 24 @ 4 pm

Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

Clark Hall, 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland www.case.edu/artsci/bakernord/events

Seeking refuge from the horrors of the Holocaust, some survivors rebuilt their lives in Chile; today, only a few hundred remain and are now between 75 and 105 years old. Samuel Shats’s photography preserves the personal histories of 31 of these survivors and reveals the capacity of human beings to live meaningful lives after the most traumatic experiences.