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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Elements of  The Jewish/German Dialogue Project have been shown in the following places:

ArtSpace at the Athenaeum, Indianapolis
​2022 
Arthur M.Glick Jewish Community Center, Indianapolis
2014

Art Museum, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
2014
John A. Day Gallery, University of S.Dakota, Vermillion
2013
Proximity Gallery, Cleveland
2012
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York
2012
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
2010
Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis
2009
Soho20 Chelsey Gallery, New York
2009
Center for Book Arts, New York
2008   
Centrum Judaicum, with artist group Meshulash, Berlin, Germany
2008
Centrum Judaicum, with artist group Meshulash, Berlin, Germany
2007    
Indianapolis Art Center
2007
Herron School of Art & Design
2007
Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
2007
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York
2006
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York
2005
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany
2004
Indianapolis Art Center
2003
Arthur M.Glick Jewish Community Center, Indianapolis, IN
2003



SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
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Public reading "wit(h)ness" at reception Proximity Gallery, Cleveland, 2012
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"wit(h)drawing: a triptych" at Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, NY, 2012
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Fall 2022:

ArtSpace at the Athenaeum, Indianapolis
"Shared History Project: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-Speaking Lands" with the "Jewish/German Dialogue Project"
November 4-27, 2022
Reception and brief introduction, November 4, 6-9pm

Sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, New York and the Athenaeum Foundation, Indianapolis
​By invitation of the German Honorary Consul, Indianapolis, Sven Schumacher and the German Consul General, Wolfgang Moessinger
More about the Shared History Project: sharedhistoryproject.org.

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Fall 2014: 10th anniversary of the Project 


"The Jewish/German Dialogue Project"
Arthur M. Glick Gallery, Jewish Community Center, Indianapolis

October 28 - December 31,2014
Reception and talk by the artists: October 28, 5-8pm
Sponsored by:
The German Consulate, Max Kade Institute, Jewish
Community Relations Council, The Circle: Jews, Germans and Hoosiers in Conversation, Indiana Humanities


Dialogue Through The Arts A Jewish/German Exploration
an exhibit in conjunction with the Cardin Lecture
JULIO FINE ARTS GALLERY, LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY
Baltimore, MD
February 29 – April 4, 2012


Dialogue Through The Arts A Jewish/German Exploration
an exhibit in conjunction with the Cardin Lecture
JULIO FINE ARTS GALLERY, LOYOLA  UNIVERSITY
Baltimore, MD
February 29 – April 4, 2012

Opening Reception/Artist Talk: 
February 29, 5-7pm

WORKSHOP 
Difficult Dialogues: Healing Social Wounds through the Arts
in conjunction with the Cardin Lecture
Saturday, March 24, 2 - 6pm
Sunday, March 25, 9am - 2pm
Location:  Andrew White Student Center

A two day interactive workshop that explores how the arts can contribute to healing pressing social concerns. Through creative movement, visual arts and interactive exercises we seek to create an environment conducive to acknowledge identity “differences” that are so often at the root of conflicts.

Workshop co-facilitators: Karen Baldner (Visual Arts), Lisa Green-Cudeck (Creative Movement) and Björn Krondorfer (Religious Studies)


CARDIN  LECTURE
The Art of Dialogue: Jewish-Christian Relations in a Post-Shoah World
presented by Björn Krondorfer
Sunday, March 25, 4:30pm
McManus Theater, Andrew White Student Center

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CARDIN WORKSHOP
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CARDIN WORKSHOP





reMembering
Basile Gallery
Herron School of Art & Design, IUPUI
Indianapolis, IN
February 17 - March 10, 2010
Closing Reception: March 10, 10, 6:30pm

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pushmepullyou : A Jewish/German Dialogue DisclosedMathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
symposium (in conjunction with the exhibition)
September 3 – December 18, 2008
wit(h)ness : 
Art, Memory and the Holocaust

MATHERS MUSEUM OF WORLD CULTURES
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, IN 

Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 1:00 - 7:00 p.m.

1:00 – 1:10 p.m.            Welcome and Introduction

1:10 – 2:00 p.m.            Keynote  Lisa Saltzman, 
                                      Art Historian/Critic, 
           
                                      Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 

                                      Q & A

2:00 – 2:15 p.m.            Break

2:15 – 3:45 p.m.            pushmepullyou : Art Across the Abyss 
                                      Karen Baldner and Björn Krondorfer


                                      Q & A

3:45 – 4:15 p.m.            Coffee Break

4:15 – 5:45 p.m.            Interdisciplinary Panel

                                      Prof. Susan Gubar, English 

                                      Prof. Edward Linenthal, History 

                                      Prof. David Thelen, History 

                                      Prof. Lisa Saltzman, respondent  

                                      Moderator Alvin Rosenfeld

5:45 – 6:00 p.m.            Break

6:00 – 7:00 p.m.            Reception   



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​Co-authered Articles

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"Different Horrors, Same Hell", Myrna Goldenberg/Amy Shapiro, University of Washington Press, 2013
article contribution with Björn Krondorfer

"Witnessing and Re-imagining Through the Arts: Meditations on a Dialogical Project", Cross Currents, Vol. 60, No. 4, BORDER CROSSINGS (December 2010),, pp pp. 495-514 (20 pages), University of North Carolina Press,  article contribution with Björn Krondorfer


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