Thursday, September 04, 2025, 10:00 AM – Sunday, December 14, 2025, 5:00 PM

Featured Exhibitions Gallery, Henry Radford Hope Wing, First Floor

Anna Walinska (American, 1906–1997). Survivors – Exodus, 1958. Oil on canvas, 60 1/8 × 84 1/8 in. (152.7 × 213.7 cm). Gift of Rosina Rubin, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2023.29

Exhibition Overview

Remembrance and Renewal will be the first exhibition to examine the impact of the Holocaust on the development of midcentury American art. It will bring together approximately sixty works of art from collections nationwide, featuring a wide range of aesthetic approaches by artists both canonical and little known.

An accompanying catalogue will be published by Yale University Press.

The exhibition is curated by Jennifer McComas, Curator of European and American Art

More information to come.

Establishing a definition of the Holocaust

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators from 1933-1945.

Tour Plans

Jenny will lead a public tour once a month. These are scheduled for Sunday afternoons: tentatively September 14, October 12, and November 9.
An Exhibition Tour will be available to schedule via group reservations. Depending on the nature of the request, we will reach out to docents and/or Jenny, as needed, to lead these.
Course-connected tours may visit this exhibition.
High-school curriculum-based tour of Remembrance and Renewal: Eskenazi Museum of Art | Guide Program This tour has been designed to meet Indiana State Standards for Social Studies Literacy. For large groups, this will be a teacher-guided visit, with support available from us.

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Training, Part 1

If you missed our March 24, 2025 training or wish to review, listen to the recording here

while you advance the slides for yourself here: REMEMBRANCE AND RENEWAL - Presentation Slides from Jodi Elowitz.pdf.

Note: The slides did not advance in the recording because on the day they were controlled via our guest speaker's laptop rather than our device.

Then review these two resources that Jodi shared:

Using Guidelines to Teach the Holocaust and Hard History.pdf
How to Navigate Complex Moments.pdf

Training, Part 2

Jenny's slide deck for this presentation: R&R docent training with Jenny McComas April 28 2025.pptx

Layout

Here's where to find each of the four sections in the gallery. Jenny's presentation included more detail. See her slide deck.

Resources

Large print transcripts of Didactics and Labels for Remembrance and Renewal Exhibition.pdf

Exhibition Catalog - Remembrance and Renewal.pdf

High-school curriculum-based tour of Remembrance and Renewal: Eskenazi Museum of Art | Guide Program

Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940–1970 | This is the exhibition's web page. It also lists public programs and curatorial tours being offered in conjunction with this exhibition.