This April in commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Concentration Camps, PuffinFoundation West has awarded the Friends of Jewish Art at the Columbus Museum of Art a Sponsorship Grant to help bring to Columbus a most important exhibition that has traveled the globe entitled FABRIC OF SURVIVAL: the Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz. The following is from ©2013 Art and Remembrance | 5614 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. #131 | Washington, D.C. 20015-2604 | Phone: 301.654.7286 a Foundation that protects and shares these embroidered panels and their stories all across the globe. “Inspired by the art and story of Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, Art and Remembrance uses art and personal narrative to recognize individual courage and resilience, and to foster understanding and compassion for those who experience injustice.Art and Remembrance draws on the power and passion of Esther’s art and story–and other first-person narratives told through art–to educate about the Holocaust and other forms of social injustice; to open hearts and minds to the experiences of others; and to give voice to those who may yet share their stories through the healing power of art.Art and Remembrance, an arts and educational non-profit based in Maryland, was founded in 2003 to bring the work and story of Holocaust survivor and fabric artist Esther Nisenthal Krinitz to a wider audience; to maximize the educational potential of her art and her unique story; and to promote the use of art and personal memoir as tools for promoting healing and awareness. As the daughters of Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, founders Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade grew up with the stories of their mother’s courage and suffering as a child during the war. Years later, after Esther began to turn her stories into a narrated series of fabric art pictures, they realized the incredible power that their mother’s art, combined with her stitched narratives, had on people. Together, art and story could help people understand not only what war and intolerance are, but also how it feels to those who endure them.” www.columbusmuseum .org
