Legacy 2025 L’ Dor V’Dor – From Generation to Generation
Opening: December 6, 6:30 pm Sandler Family Campus
Talk: Sunday, November 16, 4 pm Jewish Museum and Cultural Center
Legacy 2025: Hampton Roads Jewish Artists of the Past arrives at the Simon Family Jewish Community Center next month. The event is sponsored by the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center of Portsmouth, United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, and the Chrysler Museum.
Legacy 2025 will feature art of more than 20 Hampton Roads Jewish artists who are no longer living. Three pieces by each artist will be on display. Family members or someone familiar with each artist will speak on each artist’s behalf.
Many in the community may have grown up knowing some of these artists, as they may have been the parents of friends or relatives. Plus, some area synagogues house their art.
This exhibit also affords the rare opportunity to become acquainted with local Jewish artists of the past. In addition, this is a first of its kind exhibition which will hopefully inspire other Jewish communities within Virginia and throughout the United States to emulate.
Mia Laufer, PhD, the Irene Leach curator of European Art for the Chrysler Museum will speak at the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center on Sunday, Nov. 16. Her lecture will be a segway into the December 6 Legacy gala, A Sneak Peek at Legacy 2025: Hampton Roads Jewish Artists of the Past. A reception will follow the lecture.
Tickets are $18. For more information and to purchase tickets for all Legacy 2025 events go to www.jewishmuseumportsmouth.org or call 757-391-9266.
