Live and Learn with Ellen Davis

05 Dec @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

December – Jewish Artists with Ellen Davis

December 5 – Jewish Women Artists
This program examines the various art forms created by female painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers. Their art reflects their unique life experiences and displays concern for aesthetic issues and social equality. They reacted to the culture and the times in which they lived. It surveys the 19th and 20th centuries of Jewish female creativity in the visual arts.

December 12 – Jewish-American Photographers
This program presents photographers who are unique in their response to the mainstream culture. It focuses on the origins and development of photography by Jewish men and women practitioners from the 19 th century forward. Their photographs reflect the conditions of their lives and that of the worldwide Jewish community.

December 19 – Jewish Roots of Modern American Star-chitects
This presentation highlights the background and Work of nine (9) Jewish architects who have designed well-known buildings within the United States and around the world. (Richard Neutra, Victor Gruen, Louis Kahn, Max Abramovitz, Eero Saarinen, Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Moshe Safdie, and Daniel Libeskind).