The Holocaust Project Exhibit

	The Exhibit THE HOLOCAUST PROJECT From Darkness into Light Sponsored by the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies, the Art Galleries, and the College of Arts & Sciences at Lehigh University
The Project The Exhibit Group Tours Lehigh Events Community Events The Conference Calendar More Information BCJS Homepage	"The Fall" by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman From the Holocaust Project © Judy Chicago 1989 "The Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light," an imaginative and controversial art exhibit by internationally known artist Judy Chicago, with photography by Donald Woodman, will be shown at Lehigh University's Zoellner Arts Center February 9 through June 11, 2000. Eight years in the making, "The Holocaust Project" takes visitors on a journey into one of the darkest periods of modern history through a series of works including a tapestry, stained-glass pieces, and large-scale tableaus that combine painting and photography. "The final result," says art historian Edward Lucie-Smith, "transcends the boundaries of documentary realism, and as such proposes a new kind of moral and idealistic art." The artists use the Holocaust as a prism to view other victim experiences and to explore the human condition in the modern world. While researching the project, Judy Chicago began to perceive that "the unique experience of the Holocaust could be window into an aspect of the unarticulated but universal human experience of victimization. The problem was how to express that while honoring the particularity of the Holocaust as a historical event." The exhibit has appeared at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, the Austin Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Boston, and the Tampa Bay Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Lehigh showing is the first time this monumental multimedia work has visited the mid-Atlantic area. Admission is free. However, group tours must be scheduled in advance with the LU Art Galleries (610 758-6881). Children's guided tours of the exhibit will be offered February 26, April 2, and April 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Children must be ages 12 and up and accompanied by an adult. Call 610 758-3615 to register. Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM; Sunday 1 to 5 PM. Lehigh University, the Lehigh University Art Galleries, and the Berman Center for Jewish Studies thank those alumni and friends who have made the "Holocaust Project" exhibition at Lehigh possible: Philip and Muriel Berman, The Helene and Allen Apter Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Apter '61; Richard D. Globus '70 and Stephen E. Globus '69; Helaine and Fredric Gould '57; H. F. Lenfest; The Snider Foundation; Shelley and Max Stettner '46; Cohen & Feeley, Attorneys at Law; Geraldine and Irving Schaffer '31; the Maxwell Strawbridge Charitable Trust; Lorraine and Lewis Baer '72; David Bernstein '68; Daniel E. Cohen; Michael J. Cohen '58; Bruce Waldman; Craig A. Dally; Charles Fletcher; Irving E. Gennet '31; and Barry Glassman.

The Exhibit
THE HOLOCAUST PROJECT
From Darkness into Light
Sponsored by the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies,
the Art Galleries, and the College of Arts & Sciences at Lehigh University

The Project

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"The Fall" by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman
From the Holocaust Project © Judy Chicago 1989

"The Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light," an imaginative and controversial art exhibit by internationally known artist Judy Chicago, with photography by Donald Woodman, will be shown at Lehigh University's Zoellner Arts Center February 9 through June 11, 2000.

Eight years in the making, "The Holocaust Project" takes visitors on a journey into one of the darkest periods of modern history through a series of works including a tapestry, stained-glass pieces, and large-scale tableaus that combine painting and photography. "The final result," says art historian Edward Lucie-Smith, "transcends the boundaries of documentary realism, and as such proposes a new kind of moral and idealistic art."

The artists use the Holocaust as a prism to view other victim experiences and to explore the human condition in the modern world. While researching the project, Judy Chicago began to perceive that "the unique experience of the Holocaust could be window into an aspect of the unarticulated but universal human experience of victimization. The problem was how to express that while honoring the particularity of the Holocaust as a historical event."

The exhibit has appeared at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, the Austin Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Boston, and the Tampa Bay Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Lehigh showing is the first time this monumental multimedia work has visited the mid-Atlantic area.

Admission is free. However, group tours must be scheduled in advance with the LU Art Galleries (610 758-6881).

Children's guided tours of the exhibit will be offered February 26, April 2, and April 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Children must be ages 12 and up and accompanied by an adult. Call 610 758-3615 to register.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM; Sunday 1 to 5 PM.

Lehigh University, the Lehigh University Art Galleries, and the Berman Center for Jewish Studies thank those alumni and friends who have made the "Holocaust Project" exhibition at Lehigh possible: Philip and Muriel Berman, The Helene and Allen Apter Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Apter '61; Richard D. Globus '70 and Stephen E. Globus '69; Helaine and Fredric Gould '57; H. F. Lenfest; The Snider Foundation; Shelley and Max Stettner '46; Cohen & Feeley, Attorneys at Law; Geraldine and Irving Schaffer '31; the Maxwell Strawbridge Charitable Trust; Lorraine and Lewis Baer '72; David Bernstein '68; Daniel E. Cohen; Michael J. Cohen '58; Bruce Waldman; Craig A. Dally; Charles Fletcher; Irving E. Gennet '31; and Barry Glassman.