ONE PERSON EXHIBITION:

"WINGS OF MEMORY:
THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE ART
OF
AKIVA KENNY SEGAN"

Washington State University
at Richland – Tri-Cities campus
October 1 - 31, 2007
The exhibit will feature twenty Under the Wings of G-d
& Sight-seeing with Dignity Artworks


http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/libarts/finearts/Gallery.htm


Dates/times of slide lectures & gallery talks by the artist to-be-announced

GROUP EXHIBITION:

"NOT IN YOUR FACE - THE ART OF INTOLERANCE"
BAUM GALLERY,
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
at CONWAY
January 11 - February 20, 2007


The group exhibit included four "Under the Wings of G-d" 
and three "Sight-seeing with Dignity" works

TEACHING:

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, HAIFA UNIVERSITY 
May 9. 2007


The artist presented an "Under the Wings of G-d" / "SIght-seeing with Dignity" powerpoint presentation.
This was followed by a Drawing for Healing workshop with the class.

Special thanks to:
Professor Rachel Lev-Wiesel and to all twelve
class students whose participation made the program a great success
(during the time of the month long nation-wide strike).

Special thanks to the American couple whose generous funding
made this important teaching trip a reality.

TEACHING:

TEMPLE JUDEA, PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA
March 4, 2007

"Under the Wings of G-d" /  "Sight-seeing with Dignity"
slide presentationwith combined 6th & 7th grade classes: 
 
Thanks to Temple Judea for the honorarium towards
the May 2007 Israel teaching trip

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Ashen Rainbow: Essays on the Arts & the Holocaust
by Ori Z. Soltes

Publication year: 2007
Softcover, 276 pages, illustrated
info: www.eshelbooks.com

Ashen Rainbow includes an essay on Segan's
"Under the Wings of G-d" art series and reproduces
"Everyone's Zadie - Portrait of Dodye Feig," the wings drawing of
Elie Wiesel's murdered maternal grandfather.

 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
'Conversion overlooked'
The JT News – The Voice of Jewish Washington,
Friday, March 5, 2007

http://www.dlux.net/~holocaustart/jt_news%203-2-07.htm

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
'Real redemption'
The JT News - The Voice of Jewish Washington,
Friday, July 6, 2007

http://www.jtnews.net/index.php?/viewpoints/item/2990/C29

Thank you, prominent American religious leaders, Protestant
(both mainline and evangelical),
Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim,
for your January 2006 statement,
"Torture is a Moral Issue,"
at the founding conference of the
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
held in Princeton, New Jersey:

TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE

1. Torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all religions, in their highest ideals, hold dear
2. It degrades everyone involved - policy makers, perpetrators and victims
3. It contradicts our nation's most cherished values
4. Any policies that permit torture and inhumane treatment are shocking and morally intolerable
5. Nothing less is at stake in the torture abuse crisis than the soul of our nation
6. What does it signify if torture is condemned in word but allowed in deed?
7. Let America abolish torture now - without exceptions
Don't be silent! Urge your Congressional Representatives and U.S. Senators to end American governmental sponsored torture in deed and not just word.
Urge an end to the despicable practice called extraordinary rendition where prisoners are sent to foreign countries such as Syria and Egypt and tortured.


Special thanks to Peter Steinfels, the BELIEFS columnist for Saturday issues
in the New York Times, for addressing torture, religion, and moral and
ethical silence and leadership in two recent articles:
"Topic in the Air That Politicians Didn't Touch: Torture" (Nov 11, 1996)
and "An Evangelical Stand Against Torture Was Tightly Argued,
but Drew Scant Attention" (July 21, 2007).