“Esther and The Dream of One Loving Human Family” features embroideries created by Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz. The expanded exhibition is at the American Visionary Art Museum through March 3, 2024.
Curator and museum founder, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger says, “With the blessing of Esther’s family, we proudly commit to an all-new, five-year, installation. Our goal is to juxtapose the power of Esther’s work and story with the experience of other innocent victims of cultural genocides, historic and current, to urgently underscore the great danger of demonizing any human being as an undesirable ‘other.'”
See some images from the show here.
Janiszew Prison Camp by Esther Krinitz. 1994. Embroidery and fabric collage. Collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade (Handout photo) 
“Esther and The Dream of One Loving Human Family,” runs Feb. 23, 2019-March 3, 2024 at the American Visionary Art Museum. (Handout logo) 
“The 1994 Rwandan Genocide” by Chinese artist Lily Yeh (Handout photo) 
The embroidery-on-linen collage “My Childhood Home” was created by Esther Nisenthal Krinitz in 1977. (Collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade) 
“Prayer for Peace,” Judy Tallwing, 2010, resin, silver, sterling, acrylic, copper, sacred pipe dust. Collection of the artist (Handout photo) 
The embroidery-and-fabric collage titled “Shavuot” by Esther Krinitz. (File photo, collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade)
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