The Handwerker Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Jay Waronker: India’s Synagogues." An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 1, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., and the work will remain on display until April 7. An illustrated catalog with an essay by Barbara Johnson, associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of Jewish studies, will accompany the exhibition.
Waronker is an architect, artist, and professor at Southern Polytechnic State University in Atlanta, and his watercolors document the Jewish synagogues in India, which are underused or even abandoned with the decline of the local Jewish population.
Waronker will deliver an artist's talk at 12:15 p.m. on March 6, as well as participate in the discussion "The Chennamangalam Synagogue of Kerala as a site of Cultural Encounter," with Zipporah Lane and Barbara Johnson at 6:30 p.m. on March 6.
These events are co-sponsored by the Jewish studies program and the School of Humanities and Sciences.
All Handwerker Gallery events are free and open to the public. For more information please see www.ithaca.edu/handwerker or contact Cheryl Kramer, Handwerker Gallery director, at 274-3548.
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