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Please join us for a special book event with American feminist and contemporary artist Judy Chicago alongside Russian activist and founding member of Pussy Riot, Nadya Tolokonnikova.
To launch the paperback edition of The Flowering, Through the Flower Art Space will host a discussion between Chicago and Tolokonnikova moderated by Tonya Turner Carroll. The talk will follow a screening of What If Women Ruled the World?; a short film that launched Chicago and Tolokonnikova’s historic participatory project to create change, gender equality and a more equitable world.
2:00pm Documentary From Darkness into Light: Creating the Holocaust Project
This documentary was created as part of the original touring exhibition, Holocaust Project: From Darkness to Light, that premiered in 1993. It takes you into the studios of Chicago and Woodman as they share their journey into the darkness of the Holocaust and out into the light of hope.
2:30pm Talk – Through the Lens of Treblinka: The Changing Relevance of the Holocaust
Presented by Dr. Michael Nutkiewicz
About The Holocaust Project
In 1985, artist Judy Chicago and her husband, photographer Donald Woodman, began a long personal journey to understand the historical ramifications of the annihilation of European Jewy. Though she is the descendent of twenty-three generations of rabbis, Chicago knew little about her Jewish heritage. She and Woodman, also an assimilated Jew, decided to incorporate Jewish ritual into their wedding. Their study with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and their exposure in 1985 to “Shoah,” the classic film by Claude Lanzmann, stimulated a long period of inquiry into the Holocaust and Jewish history that was guided by Holocaust educator Isaiah Kuperstein. They traveled for two and a half months through the “landscape of the Holocaust,” including France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the then Soviet Union. Later visits to Hiroshima and Israel were the culmination of their travels. Their scholarly and visual research, however, continued throughout the project.
Through the Lens of Treblinka: The Changing Relevance of the Holocaust
The question 80 years later is why, in an age of media and technology that brings the world into our homes is it difficult for us to grapple with current genocides, mass murder, and human rights abuses that are not hidden from sight? In this presentation we will discuss the proposition and question: We have the examined past, but do we have a useable past?
About Dr. Nutkiewicz
Michael Nutkiewicz earned his Ph.D. in History from UCLA. He taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of New Mexico. Michael served as Director of The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Senior Historian at the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Executive Director of the Program for Torture Victims in Los Angeles, and manager of the refugee resettlement program at Catholic Charities-New Mexico. He has published in the areas of Jewish and European history, the uses of oral testimony, and social justice education. Michael wrote the teachers’ guide for Judy Chicago’s Holocaust Project. Michael’s annotated translation of an aid worker’s 1921 Yiddish memoir about pogroms in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War was released by Slavica Publishers in October 2022.
Saturday, November 5, 2022, Through The Flower Art Space in Belen, NM will open a timely and thought-provoking exhibition, Lessons for Today: Revisiting The Dinner Party, which will run through the end of March 2023 in celebration of Women’s History Month. The show will be open from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM MST.
The show will consist of illustrated panels about each of the thirty-nine women represented in Judy Chicago’s landmark work The Dinner Party, which is permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, along with several original test plates, drawings, and archival material as well as a virtual tour of The Dinner Party narrated by Chicago.
On Sunday, November 6 at 2PM, Through the Flower will award Tressa Berman with the 2022 Judy Chicago Art Education Award. The ceremony will be open to the public.