Akiva Kenneth Segan: Under the Wings of G-d
Tuesday, March 16 - Thursday, April 8 , 2004
Public Reception: Tuesday, March 16, 6-8 p.m.

“Laja Lederman and daughters Zosia and Hanah of Ostrowicz, Poland”, India ink, colored pencil, yellow linoleum block ink and torn paper, 1996.

This exhibit features drawings selected from the series, Under the Wings of G-d.
The artworks include portraits documenting and honoring individuals who died
during the Holocaust. Seattle artist Akiva Kenneth Segan created this series of
drawings based on photographs and research of this time of great social
injustice. Each drawing is a unique contemporary artistic interpretation of a
person who perished during the Shoah. Each victim is portrayed with wings as a
metaphor for freedom, symbolic of shelter, hope and redemption. The wings are
drawn from actual bird wings in the ornithology collections of the University of
Washington's Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington.

International Shoah Art Museum website