Photography Exhibit – Photographic Portraits: The Holocaust Survivors of Baltimore
A photography exhibit, along with an interactive display and audio recordings, is opening next week at the Norman and Sara Brown Art Gallery at the Park Heights JCC. The photographs are done by Mount Washington area artist Lisa Shifren. For more information about the exhibit, the opening and the artist, see the information below provided by the JCC.
Norman and Sara Brown Art Gallery
Weinberg PH JCC
Grace. Dignity. Humility. Compassion.
Photographic Portraits: The Holocaust Survivors of
Baltimore by Lisa Shifren
April 12-May 28
Opening Reception: Meet the Artist and the Survivors.
Sunday, April 18; 4:00-6:00pm
This unique show will exhibit 35 photographs of Holocaust survivors as well as biographies and personal photos of them when they were young. This interactive display will include audio recordings of the local Baltimore Holocaust Survivor community.
Lisa Shifren, an artist who lives between Mount Washington and Pikesville, has been taking photographs for over 20 years. She majored in Imaging and Digital Art at the University of Maryland, and has also studied photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to being a photographer and digital artist, Lisa works as a Jewish communal professional at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore with seniors and Holocaust survivors, who are the subjects of her recent body of work titled Grace. Dignity. Humility. Compassion. Photographic Portraits: The Holocaust Survivors of Baltimore.
Lisa has been invited to exhibit her work at The Baltimore City Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Commemoration, The Social Security Administration, The Maryland Institute College of Art, The Norman and Sara Brown Art Gallery, Amalie Rothschild Gallery, Creative Alliance Main Gallery, Load of Fun Studios, Herring Run Artists’ Network, School 33′s Open Studio Tour, and The Center for Art and Visual Culture in Baltimore, MD. Lisa’s work has been featured in Jewish Women International Magazine, the Baltimore Jewish Times, and on WYPR’s Maryland Morning.
For more information on the artist, visit her website.
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