Art Talk: The Dreyfus Affair
2024-01-03 19:00 (America/New_York)
Topic: The Dreyfus Affair, Anti-Semitism, and Art in Paris
This class will discuss the Dreyfus Affair in detail, including what led up to virulent anti-Semitism in France during the latter part of the 19th Century and the role art and artist-activists played. In 1894 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. He was convicted of high treason, court-martialed, and deported to solitary confinement on Devil’s Island. France was split into a fierce anti-Semitic, pro-military right-wing camp and a republican, liberal, left-wing camp. Shockwaves were felt in the circle of Parisian artists as well.
January 3, 2024 at 7pm (ZOOM)
Facilitator: Janet Cohen Mandel
Check your email for registration link.

Art Talks: Jewish Collectors During the Nazi Period
2024-02-14 19:00 - 20:30
Discuss Jewish collectors during the Nazi period and what happened to the paintings of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele.
February 14, 2024 at 7pm (ZOOM)
Facilitator: Janet Cohen Mandel
See your email for registration info.

Art Talk: Anna Walinska
2024-04-03 19:00 - 20:30
Anna Walinska: The Spirit of a Search without Boundaries
Anna Walinska’s life and art spans the march of American modernism into the 20th Century. Her story pairs the history of the New York school of art with the American Jewish experience. A prolific artist of both figurative and abstract paintings, she created more than 2000 works on canvas and paper over the course of her lifetime. Although relatively unknown today, Anna Walinska’s joie de vivre and remarkable body of work are worth recognizing and celebrating.
April 3, 2024 at 7pm
Zoom
Facilitator: Janet Cohen Mandel

The Gallery at TSTI: Artist Talk
2024-05-19 14:00 - 16:00
The Gallery at TSTI: Artist Talk

Strangers in a Strange Land, the current exhibit from the Gallery at TSTI, portrays immigration from the perspective of the immigrants themselves as they grapple with discrimination, economic survival, psychological trauma and legal uncertainties. Many did not choose to flee, but were forced because of war, violence or persecution, often without warning or the ability to return.
The six participating artists—Pam Cooper, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Mansa Mussa, Ibou Ibrahim Ndoye, Danielle Scott, and Agnieszka Wszolkowaka—weave a complex tapestry of the immigration experience. Come hear them speak to their works and experiences.
​​​​​​​Learn more about the exhibit here.
Artist Talk
Sunday, May 19 from 2-4 pm
at TSTI

Art Talks: Ruth Orkin Power of the Image
2024-11-06 19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
7:00pm
On Zoom
Members, check your email for registration.

Zoom Art Class
2024-12-11 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-11 19:00 - 20:00

ART TALK: Jewish Artists in 19th Century Europe
2025-01-08 19:00 - 20:30
19th Century Enlightenment ideas brought many changes to Europe, including citizenship for ethnic minorities. For many European Jewish artists, political emancipation and its accompanying assimilation created opportunities to establish themselves as professional artists for the first time in modern history.
Wednesday, Jan 8 at 7pm
Facilitators: Janet Cohen Mandel
On Zoom
Registration link in TSTI Today.

TSTI Mitzvah Day
2025-02-02 11:30 - 13:30
Join us for our 3rd Annual Temple-wide MITZVAH DAY!
Sunday, February 2, 2025
11:30am – 1:30pm
Help us with projects for all ages:
• Making meals for food insecure families, college students, & homebound seniors
• Packages for American soldiers
• Friendship bracelets for children in Israel
• Toys for animals in shelters
• Care packages for nurses, cancer patients, & grieving children
• Toiletry packages for underprivileged children & adults
• First aid kits for shelters
Light nosh will be served.
Register Here for Mitzvah Day!

Holocaust Art: This Happened
2025-02-05 19:00 - 20:30
After World War II, survivors made sense of the horrors they endured through literature, music, and visual art. This presentation will examine the remarkable work of several painters, some who survived and some who did not.
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 7pm
on Zoom
Facilitator: Janet Cohen Mandel

Art Gallery Opening
2025-04-06 14:00 - 16:00

Zoom Art Class
2025-12-10 19:00 - 20:00
Separated by a generation and a great ocean, Berthe Weill and Edith Halpert were two of the most influential gallerists of the 20th Century.
Wednesday, December 10, 7 p.m.
Facilitator: Janet Cohen MandelOn Zoom
