JMOF-FIU Leadership
JMOF-FIU Board & Staff planning for another successful year at our annual retreat.
Graphic Details
Happenings
(L-R) Honorary Council members Shirlee Segall Schiller and Sonny Greenfield with Advisory Board Vice Chair Kenneth Bloom celebrating the festive members opening of Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women.
(L-R) Graphic Details curator Michael Kaminer and artists Miriam Katin, Diane Noomin, Ariel Schrage and Vanessa Davis participating in a “Meet the Artist” reception at JMOF-FIU, followed by a panel on Graphic Novels at the Miami Book Fair International, moderated by FIU’s Laurie Shrage, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies.
Looted Art Programming “Stealing Klimt,” stealing the show, with a soldout audience for this film on Maria Altmann’s struggle to recover five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in 1938. Co-sponsored by the Miami Jewish Film Festival, this film was shown in conjunction with our U.S. premiere exhibit of posters from the collection of Dr. Hans Sachs, also looted by the Nazis in 1938.
JMOF-FIU Advisory Board and Honorary Council installation at the Annual Meeting.
FIU Programs FIU Honors College students enjoying a tour of the museum as part of the HEARTS (Honors Education in the Arts) program’s first “FIU Cultural Crawl of South Beach,” visiting JMOF-FIU, Wolfsonian and Miami Beach Urban Studios. The tour was organized by Regina Bailey, Wolfsonian Assistant Director Academic Initiatives, Senior Fellow FIU’s Honors College. Membership & Volunteer Vice Chair Isabel Anderson receiving an award for 15 years of volunteer service.
Recognizing and thanking Museum Volunteers for their time and talents.
(L-R) Dr. Nathan Katz presenting Dr. Mehnaz Mona Afridi, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College for a fascinating lecture on “Shoah Through Muslim Eyes.” Photo courtesy of Ellen Goldberg.
Examining “Islam and Judaism,” with a presentation by Professor David Wasserstein of Vanderbilt University, followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Professor Tudor Parfitt, FIU, with Iqbal Akthtar, FIU; Amanullah de Sondy and Dr. Henry Green, University of Miami; and Mohammed Shakir, COSMOS.
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