Building Bridges: Jewish and Armenian Legacies After Genocide

How does the physical displacement and emotional trauma of genocide shape cultural identity? Join us for a meaningful dialogue as we explore this in depth with descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors and descendants of Holocaust survivors. This question defined a significant portion of the twentieth century for both the Armenian and Jewish communities in Los Angeles.

Panelists include:

Ara Oshagan, a diasporic multi-disciplinary artist and curator whose practice explores collective and personal histories of dispossession, legacies of violence, identity, de-colonization and (un)imagined futures. Oshagan is a descendant of survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 who were deracinate from their indigenous land of Western Armenia. He was born in diaspora and was himself displaced due to war as a youth. Oshagan works in photography, collage, installation, film, book arts, public art and monuments and has published four books of photography. He has had solo exhibitions and public art installations in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Armenia, Morocco, and South Korea. His work has been featured on NPR, LA Times, Hyperallergic, Mother Jones, Art Papers among others. Oshagan is an Artist-in-Residence at the 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica and curator at the City of Glendale ReflectSpace Gallery.

*Other panelists will be added shortly

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