Youngstown Area Jewish Federation to showcase new exhibit in March
The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation will be featuring work from Diane Britt beginning March 1 through April 30.
The exhibit will be in the Thomases Family Endowment art gallery and a reception will be from 1 to 3 p.m. on March 10.
According to the organization, the exhibit speaks to retrospection, looking back at 20 years of Britt's work. It focuses on Jewish themes, imagery, historical and personal imagery.
This includes her grandmother's tales of living life in town at the end of the 19th century to the Holocaust to ancient folklore about golems.
"My work is never untouched by past or contemporary stories and emotion," Britt said. "The vast refugee populations fleeing war, climate disaster, and famine reverberate for me and embrace an unavoidable historical context with echoes into the present and future."
Britt studied art and art history at UMass Boston, worked as an artist and computer typesetter, and attended graduate school at Lesley College and Penn State, as well as becoming a psychologist, according to the organization.
