art exhibitions
The Minnesota JCCs are the home for many wonderful art exhibitions featuring local, national and international artists. The Tychman Shapiro Gallery at the Sabes Center Minneapolis and the newly renovated Herman J. Birnberg Fine Art Gallery at the Capp Center St. Paul, are premier destinations for Jewish arts and culture.
For questions or more information, please contact Alex Fisher, Chief Program Officer at 651.255.4739 or alexf@minnesotajcc.org.
June – July, 2024
Herman J. Birnberg Art Gallery
Capp Center St. Paul
Owen Brown: Visions of Nothing
Owen Brown was born in Chicago, trained as a classical musician, took his first art class at 23, and much of what he’s wanted to do since then has been paint.
Brown holds degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. He lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where he was represented by Meridian Gallery. He now lives in Minneapolis.
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. The source of my practice is the world with all its beauty and confusion – nature, so alien and alluring, the social, equally baffling but no less wonderful, and the uncomfortable friction between that, and our internal interpretations. Life eludes easy understanding or conclusion: what are we seeing when we really think about it and how did we miss it before?”
June – July, 2024
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Sabes Center Minneapolis
Paint: Triple Artist Showcase
Featuring: Michele Taly, Sarah Routman and Harold Samtur
Join us in celebrating three local Jewish artists as they recontextualize our definitions of what makes a painting a painting. Is it the rectangular frame that defines the experience? The artist’s third eye that brings you into their unique vision? Or is it that perfectly placed brush stroke, traveling across the canvas, paving the way for another and another and another…
This triple artist showcase explores the very concept of “paint on canvas” with spectacularly original approaches to challenge and thrill visitors.
March – May, 2024
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Sabes Center Minneapolis
Visual Prayer
An Exhibit of the Interfaith Artist Circle
The Interfaith Artists Circle of the Twin Cities is a group of visual artists who create art on spiritual themes and pursue art as a spiritual journey. Originally founded in 2005 as the Jewish Women Artists’ Circle, the group became interfaith in 2015.
An important component of the Circle is studying with scholars, who provide a foundation in spiritual learning and inspire the individual art works. The artists in the interfaith group are diverse in traditions, observance, and belief. Exploring prayer through art is a way to find commonality and connectivity among religions and to appreciate and respect similarities and differences.
The Artists
Jeanne Aaron • Hend al-Mansour • Beth Andrews • Sandy M. Baron • Jane Bassuk • Sandra Brick • Gloria Cooper Elizabeth Erickson • Lucy Rose Fischer • Renanah (Rani) Halpern • Angela Heida Hammer • Fawzia Khan • Joyce Lyon • Kirsten Malcolm Berry • Aimee Orkin • Susan Peploe • Paula Leiter Pergament • Regula Russelle • Anita White • Rochelle Woldorsky
Please join us for a Visual Prayer Exhibit Tour on May 16 at 1 PM.
February 1 – February 29, 2024
Tychman Shapiro Gallery
Sabes Center Minneapolis
Caring Connections
Art Exhibition
February is Jewish Disability Awareness Acceptance and Inclusion Month (JDAIM), and to celebrate that, Jewish Family and Children’s Services Caring Connections program will be presenting an art exhibition throughout the month of February at the Minneapolis JCC Sabes Center.
Caring Connections provides opportunities for Jewish adults with disabilities to take part in social and educational events and to engage in Jewish holidays, celebrations and traditions. Caring Connections members recently participated in a three-series art class and these are their passion pieces.
Please join us for an opening reception for the exhibition on Sunday, Jan. 28 at 2 PM; dessert will be served. For questions, please email Stacey Spencer, Disability Services Manager, at sspencer@jfcsmpls.org.
