Sentences with phrase «holocaust project»

Judy Chicago (born 1939) was an American artist and activist best known for large - scale collaborative installation artworks — The Dinner Party and The Birth Project — both based on feminist themes and The Holocaust Project — based on the atrocities committed by the Nazi Party during World War II.

Chicago has also published books detailing her more recent works including The Birth Project (1985) and The Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light (1993).

She frequently utilizes weaving, embroidery, appliqué, quilting, beading and other textile practices in her major theme - based projects, including The Dinner Party, Birth Project, PowerPlay, Holocaust Project and Resolutions for the Millennium: A Stitch In Time.

Historic works by American artists include Ballade von der Judenhure Marie Sanders and Document Trouvé by Nancy Spero, both based on a photograph found in a Nazi's possession; and Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman's Double Jeopardy (half - scale) from their Holocaust Project (1992), structured as a journey into the darkness of the Holocaust and then out into the light.

Chicago is best known for the Womanhouse project created with Miriam Schapiro in the 1970s, The Dinner Party, 1974 - 79, Birth Project, 1980 - 85, PowerPlay series, 1982 - 87, Holocaust Project, 1985 - 93 and her most recent work comprised of cast glass hands and heads.

Chicago's career - long focus on making her voice and the voices of others heard continued in the Birth Project, 1980 - 85, the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light, 1985 - 1993, and Resolutions: A Stitch in Time, 1994 - 2000.

But her work remained content driven, with works like «The Dinner Party,» «The Birth Project,» and «The Holocaust Project» demonstrating her persistent exploration of issues surrounding childbirth, female sexuality, and death.

Among the videos are: Vision for the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection at Penn State; «The Dinner Party» Curriculum Project as a Living Curriculum; Judy Chicago's Art Pedagogy; Teaching Conversations — Issues in the Use of Artistic Representations of Historical Events, Judy Chicago's Holocaust Project; An Open Invitation: Teaching Feminism with «The Dinner Party»; Feminism and Diversity Matters in Art Education; and Judy Chicago WebQuests.

One of the pieces in the Holocaust Project, which was part of a series that could be viewed from different angles to different effects, offered commentary on the Apollo Moon landings (see the end of this post for photographs of that piece).

And also when we started on the Holocaust Project, you could go to any - most - major contemporary museums, you'd never even know the Holocaust happened, there was such an absence of imagery.

The inspiring Rainbow Shabbat, a large - stained glass window presenting a hopeful vision of the future, which was the culminating work in the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light, will also be on view.

From 1985 -1993, Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman worked on the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light, a journey into the darkness of the Holocaust which resulted in an exhibition that combined painting and photography to explore the meaning of the Holocaust in a contemporary context.

Among the work on view will be mural - scale oil paintings from the Power Play series (1982 - 86) and a large free - standing stained glass Rainbow Shabbot from The Holocaust Project (1985 - 1993).

Rainbow Shabbat, from the Holocaust Project by Judy Chicago & Donald Woodman, 1992 at the New Mexico Museum of Art

Over the subsequent decades, Chicago has approached a variety of subjects in a range of media, including the Birth Project, PowerPlay; and the Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light.

The size of her monumental works, such as The Dinner Party (1974 — 79) and The Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light (1985 — 93), would require a major museum to step up, but so far, they have not.

Not exact matches

That history, coupled with the generous use of interview narrative from rescuers, the rescued, and non-rescuers throughout the book, more than offsets any fear that the Oliners» project, by focusing on rescue activities, might diminish the horror of the Holocaust.

Honestly, I suspect the practice (though potentially offensive in any context) only really became the subject of a firestorm because the church's baptism «projects» involved already sensitive territory, like the Holocaust.

Like many MPs, I've had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz - Birkenau with students from my constituency as part of the Holocaust Educational Trust's amazing «Lessons from Auschwitz» project.

The 16 mm blowup sequences look more virtuoso than ever before, their influence on stuff like Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust and even The Blair Witch Project brought into finer relief as a result.

Where it does excel is in finding new angles from which to consider the Holocaust without dwelling on it — the very idea of an assembly line inside a prison camp where the skilled labourers are sure they'll be killed as soon as their project is finished will have a terrifying resonance for anyone who works hard for their money (as will the acquisition of a ping - pong table as singularly absurd incentive for a job well done).

Although best known for his big budget blockbusters, Spielberg said his favourite project was his Holocaust documentary for the Shoah Foundation, which collected the testimonies of survivors of the World War Two atrocity.

Films like The Blair Witch Project and Cannibal Holocaust falsely claim to be based on truth but are entirely fictionalized, and sit better with most audiences: they toy with the depiction of real - life crimes without the problem of exploiting people's deaths for ticket sales.

Freeman's next movie project will be BBC Two war drama «The Eichmann Show», which focuses on the trial of holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann.

A passion project for Steven Spielberg, who shot it back - to - back with another masterpiece, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who reportedly saved over 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

To further consider JUPITER»S MOON, in which refugees are being chased and shot down by Hungarian police Holocaust - style, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, where hidden homelessness eats away the American dream for children born in impoverished households, and LOVELESS, a cautionary tale that sheds light on issues of abandonment and toxic selfishness seen in: no wonder everybody just wants to die in HAPPY END?

What started as a small town school's effort to increase diversity awareness turned into a community - wide project to remember and honor those who died during the Holocaust that has generated international attention.

The paper clip project is just one aspect of a larger after - school program that focuses on the Holocaust.

Because everyone involved in the project of The Children's Holocaust Memorial felt from the beginning that it should be a lesson in tolerance.

As we near the time of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 25, you will forgive us a Yiddish expression: Everyone involved in the project tried to be a «good mensch», and they succeeded.

(Read about the early days of the Whitwell paper clip project in Paper Clip Drive Helps Students Learn About Holocaust.)

24 lessons and a homework project on WW1, WW2 and The Holocaust.

Teachers were given the opportunity to implement the project in their own independent way but had to draw from themes, readings, and strategies from Facing History's units, Holocaust and Human Behavior and Race and Membership.

Yves Solis reflects on this increased awareness among students that history is not inevitable, stating that projects such as the mobile Holocaust museum are «creating possibility and allowing other students to consider change.

This grant fosters teacher leadership and enhances student creativity and involvement while developing a school - wide project on the Holocaust and related aspects of Jewish history.

Before they begin this project, they will view a documentary about a Children's Holocaust Memorial built by middle school students in Whitwell, Tennessee.

Thanks to the generous support of Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation's Holocaust Remembrance Project, Facing History presented the winning students, and their teachers and classrooms, with over $ 25,000 in scholarships and prizes.

She works offsite as an expert consultant on Japan - related projects for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

IHRA, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, contributed to projects on remembrance education in Serbia.

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport supported the development of educational projects in the Netherlands, and enabled a representative of the Anne Frank House to take part in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport supports the development of educational projects in the Netherlands and a European Holocaust education project.

The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport supported the development of educational projects in the Netherlands and a European Holocaust education project.

In many countries, the exhibition has led to follow - up activities including teacher training courses, theatre presentations and other educational projects related to the Holocaust, World War Two and its impacts on today's society.

Learn more about Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project, and view a list of related events and community partners at http://coloradoballet.org/light.

The Colorado Ballet will close out the season with Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project March 29 - 31, 2013 at the Newman Center at the University of Denver.

The Clyfford Still Museum is honoring this beautiful essence of emotions by working with the Colorado Ballet and other community partners to promote Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project.

Featuring architectural models, drawings and photos, the show traces Safdie's development through prior projects, including Habitat 67 in Montreal, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

The project, Survivor: My Father's Ghosts, opens at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Los Angeles on May 20th, 2018 at 3 pm, with a film screening at 4 pm.

Plus: Renders of Thomas Heatherwick's Hudson Yards project unveiled Design competition for UK Holocaust Memorial Centre launched Solveig Settemsdal awarded Jerwood Drawing Prize Hamza Walker named director of LAXART and Northern England dominates Victorian Society's «Top Ten Endangered Buildings» list

In this volume, Metzger talks to Obrist about his past and present association with Auto - destructive art, how he has come to fuse his art practice with his political commitment to human rights and ecology, how he escaped the Holocaust at the age of 13 and the many projects he has yet to realize.