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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 Sentinel, Interview
July 1, 2014, New York: The Jewish Week, Exhibition Review
June 2014, Editor’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