January 9 | 5 – 6:30pm
Collecting Forward: New Works By Oregon Jewish Artists showcases works acquired through the Collecting Forward project. The project was established to celebrate and uplift contemporary Jewish artists with connections to Oregon. Join this lively artist panel for a discussion about the art included in the exhibition and the many ways to be a Jewish artist in Oregon. This is the second of two talks highlighting the artists of Collecting Forward. Learn more about the Collecting Forward initiative and fund here.
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- Emily Ginsburg was born in New York, NY. She earned her BA in Art History from Trinity College in 1986, followed by an MFA in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1991. Her conceptually driven work maps the affective impact of everyday communicative transmissions through diverse media, and has been widely exhibited at venues such as Se Cooper Contemporary, COCA Seattle, PICA, The Art Gym, Disjecta, NINE, the Portland Art Museum, and A Gentil Carioca in Rio de Janeiro, among others. Her works are also featured in numerous collections and public art commissions, including projects for Seattle City Light and Portland State University. In addition to her artistic practice, she is a professor and Chair of both the Intermedia and the Video and Sound departments at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University, in Portland, Oregon.
- Portland, Oregon-based photographer Stu Levy creates images that explore and celebrate the natural landscape. He studied with Ansel Adams and served as an assistant instructor at Adams’ workshops in Yosemite and Carmel. Levy co-founded the Portland Photographic Workshops and was a founding member of the Photography Council at the Portland Art Museum, where he served as President from 2003 to 2006. His work is included in many public and private collections, such as The Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman House, the Portland Art Museum, the Portland Visual Chronicle, and the Wilson Centre for Photography.
- Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who works with color, water, language, and place. She creates paintings using pigments made from plants, bones, stones, rainwater, and glacial melt. Her poems and essays are developed alongside these pigments and paintings, with each practice influencing the other to form new ecologies. Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, a PBS Oregon Art Beat profile, an entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia, and a feature in Poetry Daily. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped start and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire. Her artwork has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies.
- Esther Podemski is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited in galleries, film festivals, and academic venues. Her paintings and drawings have appeared at the Jersey City Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Jewish Museum (Portland), and various galleries nationally and internationally. Currently, her work is represented by Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York City. Her two-screen installation Five Days in July, revisiting the 1967 Newark riots, has been featured at The Tisch School of Art, The Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, and won the Director’s Choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival. Podemski’s projects have been supported by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Soros Foundation, and more. She has taught at Parsons School of Design, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Sarah Lawrence College.
- Tad Savinar was born in Portland, Oregon, and earned his BA in Studio Art from The Colorado College in 1973. His work is part of prestigious collections such as The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Smithsonian Institution, The Portland Art Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, Phillip Morris Corp, and the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection. Savinar has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums and institutions across the country, solidifying his presence in the art world. He is a three-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and, in 1998, was honored with the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award. In addition to his visual art career, Savinar’s work in theater has earned him Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominations. He is represented in Portland by PDX Contemporary Gallery.