Current Exhibitions
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They Whisper Names to Me, I am a Channel by Harriete Estel Berman fabricated from brass, recycled tin cans
This menorah is placed in a kitchen window, a specific reference to my own kitchen window looking toward San Francisco, and the “Kitchen” community organized by Rabbi Noa Kushner.
Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate
upcoming exhibition locations:
January 16-June 5, 2023: Goodman Family Museum, Temple Israel, West Bloomfield, MI
June 5-December 15, 2023: Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston TX
Traveling USA. Past exhibition locations:
The Center for Interfaith Cooperation (CIC). Indianapolis, IN 46208: Skirball Museum Cincinnati, Ohio; Hebrew Union College Bernard Heller Museum, New York
Statement about “Holy Sparks” “Tthe Holy Sparks art exhibition illuminates the creativity, commitment, and vision of 24 women who were “firsts” in their time. Their challenges and contributions, struggles and successes, represent the achievements of all the 839 women rabbinical graduates of HUC-JIR in North America and Israel to date – and the nearly 1,500 women rabbis of all movements who have transformed Jewish tradition, worship, spirituality, scholarship, education, and pastoral care.
Evoking their stories are the works of 24 leading contemporary Jewish women artists, who immersed themselves in their respective rabbi’s recorded interviews, produced by The Braid's Story Archive of Women Rabbis and preserved at the Jewish Women’s Archive. The artists’ insights, empathy, and broad array of aesthetic approaches capture the essence of these trailblazers’ identities and consecrated paths.”
Place Before Us These Symbols of Pesach
On view 2020 until 2035 in a display of the Permanent Collection of the Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany .
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Recent Exhibitions
Location: Craft In America exhibition with jewelry and artwork by the people featured in the PBS episode JEWELRY.
841 W. Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Date: December 11 - March 19, 2002
Octagonal Bracelet by Harriete Estel Berman fabricated from Recycled Tin Cans
Reverse side: salmon and gold color with blue birds
Outside edge: olive green checker ¾” tall
Inside wrist: Oreos against purple with orange “OREO”
Brass rivets on outside edge both sides, wrist one side
45 Stories
Museum of Art and Design
February 13, 2020 –January 24, 2021
Described by the museum as “A bold re-imagining of the Museum of Art and Design’s exceptional collection of studio and contemporary art jewelry, 45 Stories in Jewelry will display the collection’s most important works within a multimedia storytelling environment.”
Below is the book published after the exhibition, Jewelry Stories, Highlights from the Collection 1947-2019. Truly a must for your books if you enjoy art jewelry of the 20th and 21st century. My bracelet was included on the page Ware/Wear (shown right.)
Past Exhibitions
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Reality Studded with Thorns Hides the Front Door From the Street
DOMESTIC MATTERS: The Uncommon Apron
Peters Valley School of Crafts
Curated by Gail Brown
August 31- November 2, 2019
Article: “The Uncommon Apron' takes on a socially and politically charged subject”
Quote: “Metalsmith Harriete Estel Berman’s work "Reality Studded with Thorns Hides the Front Door from the Street," a wall piece made from recycled tin cans and vintage steel dollhouses, addresses the hypocrisy of the provocative images of women in consumer packaging and advertising and the devaluing of domestic roles -- from cleaning and cooking to early childhood care and the domestic arts, techniques the artist used to create the piece.”
Over Growth, Over Abundance, Over Consumption, Over Whelmed
Mastery in Jewelry and Metals: Irresistible Offerings! ( artist with artwork shown above on opening night)
Gallery 2052
2052 W. Chicago, Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2019 - July 5, 2019
A Yard of Grass
TERRA in FERMA - Exhibition on climate change and pollution.
Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, (formerly Hebrew Union College Museum)
One West Fourth Street
New York, N.Y.
September 6, 2018- July 2019
Black Plastic Gyre Necklace (Shown on the catalog cover)
Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment
Curated by Suzanne Ramljak
Fuller Craft Museum
Upcoming exhibition dates: October 6, 2018 - April 21, 2019
Opening Reception: October 13, 2019 R.S.V.P.
Crafting a Legacy
National Ornamental Metal Museum
February 3 - May 12, 2019
374 Metal Museum Drive
Memphis, Tennessee 38106
Identity Complex Mirror (shown above)
"The Deceiver and The Deceived "
(Solo exhibition in the Arabella Decker Gallery - Artwork from 1996-2004)
Peninsula Museum of Art
1777 California Dr, Burlingame, CA 94010
August - November 2018
Checking the Cost of Gun Violence
I.M.A.G.I.N.E. Peace Now (Invitational exhibition organized by Boris Bally)
Recent EXHIBITION at the Radius Gallery, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Previous venues include:
Wellington B Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design, St. Louis, MO
Kentucky Cetner for African American Heritage, Louisville, Kentucky
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Radius Gallery, Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA
How Is This Night Different From All Other Nights from the series: An Orange Belongs on the Seder Plate
Home(less)
Hebrew Union College Museum
One West Fourth Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street)
New York, NY
September 7, 2017 - July 10, 2018
Witnessing the Weight of Words
Text Message: Words and Letters in Contemporary Craft
Racine Art Museum
January 21 - May 6, 2018
In Your Light, I See Light Shabbat Candlesticks
"The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat"
Jewish Museum Milwaukee
September 13 - December 31, 2017
1360 N Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Blood - Water Pollution from the 10 Modern Plagues
CURRENT REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURAL AND MAN MADE EXHIBITION
Curated by Gail M. Brown
Landmark Arts Gallery
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
October -December 2017
Texas Metals Symposium Saturday, October 7, 2017 9:00-5:00 p.m.
Leaders of American Studio Jewelry: 1940-2000
October 14-16, 2016
Blue Onion Bus
Charlotte Contemporary
Park Expo Center
Charlotte, North Carolina
Curated by Autumn Brown
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AN EXUBERANCE OF COLOR In Studio Jewelry
Curator: Gail Brown
Tansey Contemporary Gallery
Sante Fe, Ca
August 4- September 17, 2017
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Black and White IIdentity Necklace
Head to Toe
108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma
June 3 – July 24, 2016
Water Pollution and the Need to Provide Clean Affordable Water
From the 10 Modern Plagues
EVIL: A Matter of Intent
Evil is the violation of our common humanity. Human morality requires direct action against evil. Can we develop a society able to embrace selfless acts and behavior to benefit others irrespective of harm to one s person or interests? The Peace Corps, Medecins sans Frontieres, Southern Poverty Law Center, Habitat for the Humanity, Meals on Wheels, amongst many others, strive to defeat evil.
The artists in this exhibition as do many of us, have a vision of how to proceed. Less rhetoric. More action. It is up to each and every one of us to wage war on evil.
Hebrew Union College
One West Fourth Street
New York, N.Y. 10012
September 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016