Rae Stern: In Fugue

Artist Talks

Belger Arts is pleased to announce that on November 7th, Rae Stern will return to Kansas City to discuss her work at Belger Crane Yard Studios and on January 10th at 21c Museum Hotel.

Please see details for each event below and note that time and location vary.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Kristallnacht Commemoration

November 7th, 2019 at 7:00 PM

Belger Crane Yard Studios
2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO

In collaboration with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Belger Arts invites you to attend the MCHE community-wide commemoration event for Kristallnacht and to hear artist Rae Stern talk about her exhibition In Fugue.

The evening will begin with a light reception at 6:30 p.m. at Belger Crane Yard Studios, followed by a talk at 7:00 p.m.

Complimentary reservations are available at 913-327-8196 or rsvp@mchekc.org

21c SALON: CONVERSATIONS

january 10, 2020 at 6:00-7:30 PM

21c Museum Hotel
219 W 9th Street, Kansas City, MO

21c Kansas City invites you to join a conversation between Catherine Futter, Director of Curatorial Affairs at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Israeli-American Artist, Rae Stern.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/907128802989098/

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the November 8th 21c Salon with Catherine Futter and Rae Stern is rescheduled to Friday, January 10th at 6pm.

About Kristallnacht

Commonly translated as “Night of Broken Glass”, Kristallnacht is a reference to the broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes destroyed and plundered by rioters in Nazi Germany November 9-10, 1938. In all, 267 synagogues were burned or destroyed, 7,500 Jewish businesses were vandalized or looted, at least 91 Jewish people were killed, and approximately 30,000 Jewish men were imprisoned in concentration camps. Rioters also damaged Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, and schools while police and fire brigades stood aside, under orders to intervene only if the fires threatened non-Jewish property.

Kristallnacht ended the illusion that normal Jewish life under the Nazis was still possible. It also marked a turning point in Nazi anti-Jewish policy that would culminate in the Holocaust—the systematic, state-sponsored mass murder of the European Jews.