Holocaust Remembrance Day activities set at Harn Museum

April 12, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Harn Museum of Art will pay tribute to Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 15 with a 2 p.m. docent tour focusing on “Creativity as Survival,” followed by a 3 p.m. lecture titled “Anne Frank’s Own True Heir” by University of Florida Assistant Professor Anastasia Ulanowicz.

“Creativity as Survival” will discuss the role of creativity in individual, family and cultural survival, using art in several exhibitions as examples, including “Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists,” “International Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum Collection” and “African Arts of Healing and Divination.” Specific works of art to be discussed include Bekele Mekonnen’s “Anger in Hunger,” Skunder Boghossian’s “The End of the Beginning,” Nancy Graves’ “11-06-94,” Oldrich Kulhanek’s “Portrait of My Weasel” and “Tribunal,” Yayoi Kusama’s “Nets-Infinity,” and Kwame Akoto’s “Untitled,” a painting of AIDS victims.

Ulanowicz’s lecture, “Anne Frank’s Own True Heir,” will examine the effects of trauma on artistic expression in Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” and Zlata Filipovic’s “Zlata’s Diary.” The lecture is based on Ulanowicz’s manuscript chapter, “Anne Frank’s ‘Own True Heir’: Intertextuality and the Intergenerational in Zlata’s Diary.” Ulanowicz is an assistant professor in UF’s English department and received her doctorate in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. While at Pittsburgh, she received an Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Her research interests include children’s literature and media; 20th century American literature; trauma theory; and religion and literature. The lecture will take place in the Goforth Learning Center.

Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated annually on the 27th day of the month Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar, which falls in the early spring. It is held in remembrance of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Admission to the Harn Museum of Art is free. For more information about programs and events call 352-392-9826 or visit www.harn.ufl.edu on the Web.