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HOLOCAUST/GENOCIDE EDUCATION THROUGH ART
Aqiva
Kenneth Segan, Artist |
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EDUCATION
Born in New York City, 1950 (ne Kenneth Ralph Segan)
Lived in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn though most of 1950
Graduated P.S. 115, Floral Park, (Queens), NY 1962
Graduated Hillside J.H.S. 172, Floral Park, 1965
Graduated Martin Van Buren High School,
Queens Village, N.Y. 1968
Attended
Parkland Community College, Champaign, IL 1972-74
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, B.A., printmaking &
drawing, 1977
University of Missouri at Columbia, M.F.A. printmaking & drawing minor,
1980
Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland, summer
studies,
Landscape as a Source of
Artistic Inspiration, 1984
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, summer
studies, Polish-Jewish Relations, '85
ABOUT THE NAME AQIVA:
It is pronounced uh-KEY-vuh and is a Hebrew boys/mans name.
It has a number of transliterated spellings in English:
Akiva, Aquiva, Aquivah,
Aquiba, Aquibah, Aqiba, Akivah, Akiba and Akibah.
The spellings with q (Aquiva, Aqiva) are of North African origin.
Akiva is a form of the Hebrew name Yaakov.
Yaakov in English is Jacob.
There is a female version of this name: Aviva, which is popular with Jewish
girls/women in the Diaspora and in Israel alike.
KENNETH is a name of Anglo-Saxon origin. Nicknames
include Kenny and Ken.
The artist never really liked his given middle name of RALPH
and it went out the window.
The artist's given Hebrew name was YITZHAK (as in
Yitzhak Rabin,
the assassinated Prime Minister of Israel). To correctly pronounce it, the zh
portion is pronounced akin to the CH of Bach and LOCH Ness.
Artwork - (Please click to enlarge) ABOVE RIGHT: "Construction: The Journalism School Building at the University of Missouri, Fall 1978." Etching & aquatint in eight plate sections. Size: 24" height x 36" width.
Collection: University of Missouri at Columbia, School of
Journalism
(artwork currently missing - stolen or lost. Anyone with information
about this artwork is asked to please contact the University of Missouri
Campus Police or the Columbia Missouri Police Department.)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SELECTED)
1975:
Juror, Illinois State-wide Prisoners Art Exhibit, Student Union, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Since 1986: Artist/owner: Tsigana
Art Studio, Seattle
1985-87:
Liason for printmakers from Aberdeen, Scotland, and Krakow, Poland with the late
Dr. Gordon Gilkey, Prints Curator at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Prints
were acquired for the Vivian & Gordon Gilkey Prints Collection
at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon.
1987:
International Artist in Residence, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
1991 - ongoing:
Artistic Creator of the Under the Wings of G-D drawing series on the
Holocaust
1998 - 2001:
Sponsor Level Volunteer for Jewish Studies with the Wash. State Dept. of Corrections with
adult men inmates at Wash. State Reformatory
and at the Twin Rivers Correctional Facility,
Monroe, Washington. This programming was set up as an outreach project for
adult members of Congregation Eitz Or, Seattle, to which other Jewish community congregation
members and students from the Univ. of Wash. campus Hillel center have periodically participated in with
us.
Since 2001 he has made annual Chanukah holiday program visits with prisoners
at the McNeil Island prison facilities.
1994 - ongoing:
Guest lecturer in schools, universities, prisons, churches, synagogues and other
venues. Developed Holocaust memorial programs for Puget Sound region churches
and synagogues.
SOME HOBBIES & INTERESTS: Reading, movies, walking, day
hiking, swimming year round (outdoors in the summer months), current events
discussions, singing, amateur classical piano. He is single and
available (so if you're a single / divorced / separated or widowed woman
older than fortyish, write a card, enclose a photo, snail mail and get
connected. Go for it!
If not now, when?!
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