[Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, reel 38B; Fan Warren & Sidran Music]
Artist Fan Warren is seen in studio with her piece for the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1994 exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings.”
Artist Fan Warren is seen in studio with her piece for the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1994 exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings.”
Prior to the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1994 exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings,” participating artist Fan Warren talks about her artistic influences, Black and Jewish relations, and her qualms with the Spertus show.
Othello Anderson—co-curator of the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1994 “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings” exhibition—talks to Kartemquin Films about a myriad of topics; including why he decided to participate in the show, his relationship with WWII physicist Dr. Lester Skaggs, and Black–Jewish relations.
Co-curators Claire Wolf Krantz and Othello Anderson along with artist Hamza Walker plan the layout of their upcoming exhibition at the Spertus Museum of Judaica, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings.”
A Kartemquin Films crew spends the day at the Spertus Museum of Judaica prior to their “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings” exhibition, focusing on the work of Gerda Meyer-Bernstein, Hamza Walker, Esther Parada, and Marva Jolly.
Artist Gerda Meyer-Bernstein begins installing her piece “The Phoenix” at the Spertus Museum of Judaica for their 1994 exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings.”
Artist Kerry James Marshall talks with a Kartemquin Films crew about Baruch Goldstein and growing up in South Central Los Angeles during the emergence of the Crips and other violent gangs.
In the second part of an interview with Kartemquin Films, artist Kerry James Marshall talks about the three pieces he is working on for the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s upcoming exhibition, “Bridges and Boundaries: Chicago Crossings.”