News Release
Art exhibit addresses the Holocaust
October 29, 2009
Ardyn Halter
A unique and powerful art exhibit addressing the Holocaust by acclaimed Israeli artist Ardyn Halter will be on public display in the Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room of Penn State Harrisburg’s library November 15 through April 15.
Entitled The Family I Never Knew, the prints and paintings “depict the Shoah (Holocaust) from the point of view of the second generation and also those were born after (it),” Halter explains.
The free exhibit is open to the public during the library’s normal hours of operation -- Monday through Thursday, 7:45 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.; Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ; and Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. For information, phone 717-948-6703.
The San Diego Jewish World, in profiling The Family I Never Knew, wrote, “No violence is shown in these works, only images formed from fragments of photographs placed within the context of the anti-Semitic slogans employed by the Nazis.”
A world-class artist with a well-established reputation in both Judaic and fine works, Halter’s paintings and illuminated Judaica have become popular in Israel, Europe, and North America, highly sought by museums and private collectors.
Halter’s exhibit is one of a series of events on campus hosted by the college’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies, working to bring people from the midstate and the University together in a common interest of remembering and teaching the Holocaust and Jewish studies.