Yael Wishnicki-Levi is a Polish-American-Israeli artist and researcher, currently living in Ithaca. She lived in Poland for 8 years, researching and creating art focused on her family history. While in Poland, Yael discovered a photographic repository of the first Jewish Museum in Berlin, which is now housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. This has become the subject of her MA thesis at the department of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her work is titled: From An Archive To An Artwork: A Contemporary Analysis Of The Photographic Collection Of The First Jewish Museum In Berlin.
Yael will present fragments of her thesis project and the contents of the digitized artifacts. She will share her plans for the next stage of research. A Q & A will follow.
Register for this virtual event HERE. This program is arranged by the Temple Beth El Arts Committee. Questions may be directed to 607-273-5775.
