Menashe Gallery Exhibition Celebrates the History of B’nai B’rith Camp September 21, 2022 – January 26, 2023 B’nai B’rith Camp opened in 1921 with campers sleeping on old army cots in tents near Wallula, Washington. Now located on the shores of Devil’s Lake, Oregon and firmly anchored in its second century, Camp continues to forge …
Read MoreJune 2 – September 23, 2022 High res images are available here Turning Inward, JUDY CHICAGO, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, traces Judy Chicago’s development as an artist and Jewish woman across six decades, from her early formal vocabulary of geometric color abstraction and groundbreaking work with pyrotechnics to the powerful …
Read MoreFebruary 9 – May 15, 2022 High res images are available here OJMCHE’s Menashe Gallery exhibition features four large-scale works painted by the artist in response to Portland’s 2020 protests for racial justice The police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 shocked many citizens in Portland – and around the country – into a long-delayed reckoning …
Read MoreThe exhibition is a partnership between OJMCHE and The Immigrant Story, in collaboration with Jim Lommasson and NW Documentary and presents a multimedia exhibition focused on the lives of 14 refugees who rebuilt their lives in Oregon. To Bear Witness – Extraordinary Lives features photographs, profiles, and short films that capture the stories of individuals …
Read MoreLawrence Halprin, Fountains, June 23 – September 26, 2021 High res images available here OJMCHE Summer Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11am to 4pm Public Programming: Lawrence Halprin: Touchstones and Innovation, May 25, Noon, Kenneth Helphand, guest curator. This talk is co-sponsored by the Architectural Heritage Center and the Halprin Landscape Conservancy. Recording of event. Weekly …
Read MoreLawrence Halprin stands as one of the great landscape architects of the twentieth century. In a distinguished career spanning 60 years, he created numerous iconic and trailblazing projects. His signature design methodology and the series of workshops he developed with his wife, choreographer, and dancer Anna Halprin, grew to be landmarks in creative design practice. …
Read MoreMedia Release September 18, 2020 Shelter in Place, Rain or Shine Outdoor Opening, October 1, 4-6pm, brief remarks at 5pm High res images available here Media contact: Rebecca Biggs, Communications Manager, 503-226-3600, bbiggs@ojmche.org Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, 724 NW Davis Street, Portland Installation viewable from the exterior of OJMCHE both during …
Read MoreShelter in Place, which in its entirety is viewable from the sidewalk surrounding the museum, is a film, photography, and dance-based interrogation of the social tenets of Sukkot—departing and dwelling, expressing and atoning, striking and shaking. A Black Jewish response to histories of oppression, McKinney’s Shelter in Place is an inquiry into social isolation and the physical and emotional effects of …
Read MoreArnold and Augusta Newman Foundation Donates $250,000 to Museum Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, OJMCHE, announces the creation of a fund to support on-going photography exhibitions through a gift from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation. The gift of $250,000 will create the Arnold and Augusta Newman Photography Fund and will ensure …
Read MoreOJMCHE is taking advantage of the museum’s ground floor windows to give the community an opportunity to experience art from the sidewalk Mel Katz’s father worked as a tailor in New York City’s garment industry. This seemingly small bit of biography illuminates the shapes in Katz’s current exhibition, Wall Sculptures, on view in OJMCHE’s north windows. …
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