AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM: Exhibited Works

By Press release submission

Dec 10, 2018

American Visionary Art Museum issued the following announcement on Dec. 4.

AVAM announces the return of its most beloved exhibited works in the national museum's 23-year history, the exquisitely tender testimonial embroideries created by Holocaust survivor, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz. "Esther and The Dream of One Loving Human Family" is on view February 23, 2019 - March 1, 2024. The exhibition pays tribute to humanity's long history, past and current, of unjustly persecuted innocents and the dream of a world at peace. A preamble to Esther's quilts will be work gathered from Lily Yeh's partnership with Rwandan Tutsi genocide survivors, South African Truth and Reconciliation embroidered testimonies, and more.

AVAM premiered Krinitz's story quilts in 2001, and they then traveled to 42 other museums around the world. "With the blessing of Esther's family, we proudly commit to an all-new, five-year, expansive installation, 'Esther and The Dream of One Loving Human Family.' 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'" — curator and museum founder, Rebecca Hoffberger. #MuseumMonday#MondayMotivation

Pictured: Esther Krinitz, Janiszew Prison Camp,

1994. Embroidery and fabric collage. Collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade. Image courtesy of Art and Remembrance.

Esther Krinitz, Passover Matzos,

1998. Embroidery and fabric collage. Collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade. Image courtesy of Art and Remembrance.

Esther Krinitz, We Will All Perish, 1998. Embroidery and fabric collage, with fabric wash. Collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade. Image courtesy of Art and Remembrance.

Esther Krinitz, Depths of the Forest, 1994.

Embroidery and fabric collage. Collection of Bernice Steinhardt and Helene McQuade. Image courtesy of Art and Remembrance.

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