Positively Jewish!
Tonight! Jewish Studies Lecture: Dr. Sarah Shrank: “Social Equality and the Artful Kabbalah”
Dr. Sarah Schrank from the CSULB History Department will be speaking next Tuesday night at the Alpert JCC. Her topic is “Social Equality and the Artful Kabbalah: Jewish Artists in Los Angeles, 1937-1957,” and her talk will focus on the artwork and politics of two significant LA artists, Myer Schaffer and Wallace Berman, who were involved in WPA murals and later Beat-era art. Both produced urban artwork that brought together themes of social justice, community, and spirituality.
April 14th 7:15pm
FREE
On Wallace Berman: “. . .all his images have about them a texture of tough bodily concentrated realism mixed with demonic funk-sense of the forlorn and violent eros of wanderers in the lush Los Angeles night of the ’60s. . .”
– Jack Hirschman
As always, there will be coffee (and hopefully tea) available at 7:15 and the talk will start at 7:30pm
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