Karen Frostig: The Holocaust in Personal and Public Memory

Karen Frostig: The Holocaust in Personal and Public Memory

January 23- April 14, Freedman Gallery at Albright College

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 9am-5pm, Sunday 1pm-4pm

Karen Frostig, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary, conceptual and experimental artist, public memory artist, painter, cultural historian, writer, teacher, social activist and community organizer. She is a professor at Lesley University in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, and a Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Dr. Frostig’s artwork and public installations focus on the collective public memory of the Holocaust, often using specific and personal imagery as an inflection and entry point into a larger conversation and study of a specific concept. Collectively and individually, these artworks evoke memory, trauma, and the power of healing, and illustrate the importance of shared memory. Dr. Frostig joins us on Albright’s campus as this years’ honored speaker for the 18th Annual Richard J. Yashek Memorial Lecture.