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Current exhibitions

Brain Lane exhibits at Ontario Science Centre

Brain Lane, a showcase of 60 art banners by OCAD University students, depicting artistic interpretations of aging and memory research of Rotman Research Institute (RRI) scientists, is travelling to the Idea Gallery in Toronto’s Ontario Science Centre.

The banners were created by 34 second-year students studying fibre arts and textile design, in partnership with seven RRI cognitive scientists. The students used a variety of techniques to create their banners, incorporating photography, computer-generated graphics, textiles, block printing, silk screening and watercolour painting.

By blending art with science, the travelling exhibit will help raise the profile of Baycrest’s research in aging, in a way that is unique and accessible to the public. Shown here are two of the works by students Emma Qian and Madeline Haney.

Brain Lane runs at the Ontario Science Centre from February 9 to April 14.

Cover Thy Head: Headdresses and Identities

Cover Thy Head: Headdresses and Identities opens at The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum on Sunday, October 28, 2012. This exhibit honours similarities and differences cross-culturally by exploring visible symbols of belief, belonging, and status. Cover Thy Head is an opportunity for the Baycrest community and the community at large to come together to learn, celebrate, and share.

The exhibit presents headdresses representing religious leadership, special life milestones, professional and social groups, and diversity in Canada. This collection of artifacts has been kindly loaned to the museum from a variety of sources including: St. Mark’s Coptic Museum, The Museum and Archives of Toronto East General Hospital, The Jewish Canadian Military Museum, The Archives of the Archdiocese of Toronto, the Toronto Police Service and numerous private lendors. Cover Thy Head also features a juried exhibition of 50 unique, contemporary kippot created by artists from around the world.

Cover Thy Head is generously supported by FedEx Office, Wm. Prager Ltd. and Gertex Hosiery Inc.

Results of Cover Thy Head: a juried exhibition

Over fifty entries were submitted for consideration in our juried call to artists. Our judges, Sarah Quinton, Curatorial Director at the Textile Museum of Canada, and Chung-Im Kim, artist and Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design had the difficult challenge of selecting pieces for inclusion in the exhibit and awarding 4 participating artists with prizes. We are grateful for their insights and recommendations.

First Place	Second Place	Third Place	Juror’s Choice	Honourable Mention
With-Without Ken Goldman, Israel See Art	Footprints Joyce Goodman, USA See Art	A Bright Idea Ben Herskowitz, Israel See Art	Seder Plate Lea Winkler, USA See Art	The Wandering Jew Ken Goldman, Israel See Art

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The jurors have selected the following artists to participate in the exhibition:

Adam Break, Canada	Cesan d'Ornellas Levine, Canada	Ian Alter, Canada	Martin Hirschberg, Canada
Andi Arnovitz, Israel	Daniela Tiger, Canada	Jere Moskovitz, USA	Melanie Siegel, Canada
Barbara Rucket, USA	Danny Kedem,  Israel	Joyce Goodman, USA	Mona Selnick-Doshay, USA
Ben Herskowitz, Israel	Dara Alter, USA	Karen Chisvin, Canada	Naomi Kates, Canada
Billha Zussman, Netherlands	Debbie Schore, USA	Kathleen Yorba, USA	Naomi J. Schmuckler, USA
Bonnie Askowitz, USA	Elaine Glassman, Canada	Ken Goldman, Israel	Susan Big, USA
Carol Rubin, USA	Evelyn Burns-Weinrib, Canada	Laura Piazza, USA	Susan Cox, USA
Cathy Perlmutter, USA	Gabrielle Pescador, USA	Lea Winkler, USA

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Community Choice Award winner

The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum is proud to announce the Community Choice Award winner in the Cover Thy Head juried exhibition. For the past month, visitors to the museum have been invited to place their votes for their favourite kippah in the exhibition and the results are in. The Community Choice Award goes to two recipients who received an equal share of the votes! Congratulations to Ian Alter for his piece entitled keypah and to Cathy Perlmutter for Baby Star. Well done!

Keypah Ian Alter, Canada	Baby Star Cathy Perlmutter, USA

Past exhibitions

Herzl Exhibit at the Museum

More than 400 items associated with Herzl, on loan from The David Matlow Collection, are showcased in The Dream Fulfilled: Theodor Herzl & the Jewish State. Herzl (1860 – 1904) was a visionary of the modern Jewish state and founder of political Zionism. The first president of the World Zionist Organization, he died more than 40 years before his dream to create the State of Israel was realized.

Items on display reveal the impact an idea combined with dedication and action can have on the world. Visitors are inspired to see no dream as unobtainable. As Herzl said, “If you will it, it is no dream”.

The story of Herzl and the State he envisioned is still being told. There is no better place than Baycrest for members of our community who knew life before Israel, and worked for its creation, to pass on their part of the story to their children and grandchildren. - Collector David Matlow.

For more information about the Herzl Exhibit, please click here.