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solo exhibitions

2019 Some Piece of the Nature of Things… 
McLean Project for the Arts
Atrium Gallery, McLean, VA

2016 Into a Single Open Darkness
exhibition of drawings & book launch
for poet Annie Kim
Studio IX, Charlottesville, VA

2014 I First Saw the World Through a Mosquito Net…
BBLA Gallery, The Bohemian Hall
New York City, NY

2013 Lost Childhood, an installation of monoprints
for the concert performance of the opera Lost Childhood
to mark the 75th anniversary of
Kristallnacht. (Night of Broken Glass)
The Music Center at Strathmore, MD

2010 Memory of a Time I Did Not Know
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
Washington, DC
Curator, Steven Cushner

2003 Narratives…
Metro Stage, Alexandria, VA

group exhibitions

2024, the American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC

2024 Photography of the Holocaust:
Then and Now
Curator Robert Hirsch
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo New York

2022 Creative Quest: Art from the Holocaust’s Second Generation
The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery
Howard Community College, Columbia, MD 

2022 13th Annual International Contemporary
Drawing Exhibition: Drawing Discourse
Juror Catherine Murphy
University of North Carolina Asheville

2021 Not Strictly Painting
Juror- Foon Sham
McLean Project for the Arts
McLean, VA

2020 SHIFT McLean Project for the Arts
Online Exhibition, Juror- Sarah Tanguy

2020 Art Month
Hickok Cole Architects
Washington Project for the Arts
Washington DC

2019 Small and Smaller
Site:Brooklyn Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

2019 Of Wonder
Jerusalem Biennale, JB2019
Guest Curator, Mindy Weisel

2019 To Bear Witness: The Art of Testimony
Goldman Art Gallery
Rockville, MD

2018 13th National Juried Exhibition
Ceres Gallery, NYC
Juror-Sara Softness, Assistant Curator
The Brooklyn Museum

2018 The One House Project
BlackRock Center for the Arts
Germantown, MD

2018 It’s About that Time: Prints from Lily Press
DC Arts Center (DCAC)
Washington, DC

2017 The One House Project
Touchstone Gallery
Washington, DC

2017 Art Night, Hickok Cole Architects | Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington DC

2017 Post Memory: Photographs of
a Certain Time & Place

Betty Mae Kramer Gallery
Silver Spring, MD

2016 Art Night, Hickok Cole Architects | Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington DC

2015 Art by America: A Review of 2-Dimensional
Contemporary Art

The Art House/Arts on Elston
Chicago, IL

2014 The World is Going to Hell and
I’m Printing Yellow

Galerie Myrtis
Baltimore, MD

2013 Dream Weavings: Interpretations
through Collaborations

Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Minneapolis, MN

2009 32nd small works exhibition 
80 Washington Square East Galleries, NYC
Juror, Daniel Ferris, Stephen Haller Gallery, NYC

2009 Poetic Art
Workhouse Arts Center
Lorton, VA

2008 Recent Work
Canal House Gallery
Washington, DC

2008 Home Plates
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
Washington, DC

2007 30th small works exhibition
80 Washington Square East Galleries, NYC
Juror, Jim Kempner,Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC

2004-2005 Art in Embassy Selected
works displayed in the official residence
of the Ambassador of the United States of
America to Israel as part of Ambassador
and Mrs. Kurtzer’s Art in Embassy collection

fellowships | grants

2021, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2008, 2006, 2005
Fellowships in Painting
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2015 Visual Arts RoundUp Award
Arts & Humanities Council of
Montgomery County

2010 Individual Artist Grant
Arts & Humanities Council
of Montgomery County

2009 Morris & Gwendolyn
Cafritz Foundation Award
in the Visual Arts,
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2001, 2002 Fellowships in Poetry
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

publications | commissions

2020 Image used for Cover Art for the little book of e, a collection of haiku by E. Ethelbert Miller, Hebrew translation by Rafi Ellenson

2019 Poster image for the World Premiere of Janice Hamer’s opera Lost Childhood, an Opera UCLA production in collaboration with the UCLA Department of Theater and the UCLA Philharmonia

2016 Cover image for Into the Cyclorama, collection of poems by Annie Kim, winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize

2013 Cover art for Conductor’s score for the opera Lost Childhood by Janice Hamer

2013 Cover art for Generation After, Inc. brochure

2009 (Spring issue) Images published in Hotel Amerika, Volume 7, Number 2

2007 Commission to create images for score cover and posters for composer Janice Hamer’s opera Lost Childhood

panels, collaborations, other

2021 Editorial Board, Intersecting Circles, an anthology from The Writer’s Group of The Generations After

2019 Artist Talk, some piece of the nature of things… McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

2017 -2018 Member Steering Committee, ART WATCH, a collaborative of concerned artists

2017- 2018 Member Steering Committee, ONE HOUSE PROJECT, a project of ART WATCH

2015 Panel member, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center,Washington, DC, To Remember and Reflect: artistic responses to war-related suffering

2014 Artist Talk, I First Saw the World Through a Mosquito Net, BBLA Gallery, New York City

2014 Artist Talk, The World is Going to Hell and I’m Printing Yellow, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD

2013 Work created specifically for exhibit at Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Minneapolis, as part of a collaborative project that combined the works of visual artists with artists of other disciplines.

2011 Selection Committee member, Moment Magazine Emerging Writer Awards

2010 Panel member, Examining Postmemory and its Transformation into Art in conjunction with her exhibit Memory of a time I did not know… Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, DC

2010 Guest speaker after screening of My Life with Carlos by Germán Berger-Hertz, Washington Jewish Film Festival, Washington, DC

2009 Collaboration with DC poet Sarah Browning to benefit Yellow Ribbon Fund

2009 Panel member, Transforming the Legacy of Loss: Artists and Daughters of Survivors Discuss Creativity and the Holocaust, Washington DC Generation After

2002-2011 Led workshops on the Creative Process, Washington, DC

1990 Co-founded The Washington Jewish Film Festival with Aviva Kempner, Washington, DC

1987-2001 Director of the Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts, DC Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC

selected collections

2021 Library of Congress Acquisition of thirty-nine prints from the Lily Press® Archive included my print Greta I, 2009, monotype on Kozo, 30 x 22″, Ed. 1/1

Private collections in the US, Canada, Israel, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands

 

readings

The Knitting Factory, NYC

The Jewish Museum, NYC

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

The Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL

Politics & Prose, Washington, DC

Cable TV’s The Coffee House , Takoma Park, MD

Invited participant/reader with Czeslaw Milosz, Gerald Stern, Marge Piercy in the day-long poetry program Speech and Silence: Poetry and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

press

November 1, 2019, The Washington Post, Exhibition Review

February 8, 2019, The Washington Post, Exhibition Review

December, 2018, The Montgomery County SentinelInterview

July 1, 2014New York: The Jewish Week, Exhibition Review

June 2014Editor’s Picks Artcards New York Weekly Update
(June 10 – 16)

November, 2010 Washington Diplomat, Feature Story

October 3, 2010 The Jewish Press, Exhibition Review

October 2010 WPFW, Washington, DC, Interview

September 14, 2010 The Arty Semite, Forward Blog, Exhibition Review

September 10, 2010 Baltimore Jewish Times, Feature Story

education

Fundación CIEC, Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea, Betanzos, La Coruña, Spain; New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture; Corcoran College of Art & Design; Women’s Studio Workshop, NY; The George Washington University