Celebrate Nature's Majesty — Join the Museum's Chief Curator and Director for a Free Virtual Talk

Join Derfner Judaica Museum Chief Curator and Museum Director Susan Chevlowe on Zoom for a presentation based on the Museum’s current exhibition, Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven, and learn about the places that influenced the artist’s landscape paintings and drawings over the last decade. Nature’s places of creative transformation and survival have been the focus of Haven’s studio practice for thirty years. She inspires others to be present and engaged in nature, to be healed and strengthened, and to advocate for its preservation. The works to be discussed are from several series focusing on areas of rugged terrain, from the New Jersey Palisades to the mountains of New England. They show the evolution of her compositions, beginning with a panorama of the Palisades’ “majestic wall” and culminating in works mapping large rock structures and intricate facets that are at once intimate and perilous. Organized in conjunction with DOROT.