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Visit After the Storm: Identity & Repair today!
Through Bak’s friendships and conversations with other survivors, Bak created in his art a world after disaster that mourns the undeniable loss of millions yet attempts to mend itself through the act of Tikkun, or repair. Tikkun proposes that people are responsible for the welfare of society and should commit to its reconstruction through acts of social justice, civic responsibility, and ethical behavior.
In After the Storm: Identity and Repair, Chief Curator Alexandra Cardon invites visitors to engage in the concept of Tikkun as the works on display invite questions of the presence of the divine in a world bent on destruction. Simultaneously, Bak’s paintings of hope and peace also demand the reflection of his unrelenting faith in humanity’s capacity for goodness and empathy.
Exhibition funding generously sponsored by:
The Museum offers a free audio tour available for visitors in English, Spanish, Arabic, and French. Please bring your headphones and a smart device to scan the QR code at each stop.
Comics, Poetry, and Self-Care: Creative Expression for Well-being
Thursday, October 17 at 6:00 PM
Britny Cordera, a poet, writer, journalist, and alum of the UNO Religious Studies program will lead a workshop in which participants will create 4 panel comic poems that explore the therapeutic potential of poetry and drawing. Participants will learn how to integrate self-care into the creative process and reflect on their emotions and personal journey.
Each year, Wear Black, Give Back provides valuable support to our Mavericks and surrounding community.
This year, please consider giving to the Museum during WBGB!
Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center (SBMLC) offers a source of collaboration and opportunities to students, faculty and staff with the broader community around the subjects of art, Holocaust education, human rights and genocide. As a free-admission public museum based within UNO, SBMLC is uniquely positioned to provide robust research-based programming to visitors, offering discovery, conversation, and self-reflection opportunities. Using art as the preface to a conversation, SBMLC is a safe space for lectures, classes and engagement activities that encourage students and the greater Omaha community to ask essential questions, consider hard truths, and remind us that working toward a more humane, just existence is an ongoing process.
Please consider making a gift and help the Museum meet our WBGB Challenges:
If 75 unique donors make a gift of $5 or more, it will unlock a $15,500 gift generously provided by Pam and Bruce Friedlander.
Hillary Nather-Detisch and John Detisch will match the first gifts made up to $1,000, dollar for dollar, donated to the Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center.
