During my sophomore year, I was given the opportunity of designing a fine arts museum exhibition for the 2021 Holocaust Remembrance Day Museum located within James Madison University's very own Festival Conference and Student Center.
It was an honor and pleasure to work alongside the museum faculty in order to successfully put all of this together.
It was an honor and pleasure to work alongside the museum faculty in order to successfully put all of this together.
"This exhibition is presented in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), when the world remembers the devastating loss of six million Jewish men, women, and children and vows with one voice: never again. The Holocaust was the systematic state-sponsored killing of Jews as well as Sinti-Roma, Slavs, disabled people, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. This attempted genocide resulted in the murder of roughly two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population between from 1941 to 1945."
"With the support of the Holocaust Remembrance Day Planning Committee, the Lisanby Museum presents the works of Ben Shahn and Marc Chagall, who commemorated and celebrated their Jewish culture through art. We invite you to examine the Hebrew lettering and religious themes in Shahn’s activist artwork, and the bright, colorful abstraction of Hasidic life in Chagall’s paintings."
