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Larissa and Masha Archer on Adornment and Costume

Friday, Sep 21, 2018 | 12:30–1pm

ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission

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2018-09-21 12:30:00 UTC2018-09-21 13:00:00 UTC America/Los_AngelesThe CJM - 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CALarissa and Masha Archer on Adornment and CostumeIn conjunction with Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress, from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

In conjunction with Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress, from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

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about the speaker
Larissa Archer
Larissa Archer

Larissa Archer is a writer, dancer, and actress, and the daughter of renowned Art to Wear jewelry artist Masha Archer. She is a widely published art critic, with work appearing in Hyperallergic, Art Practical, Frieze, and many others. She co-founded Strange Developments, an artist panel discussion series, with Alexis Gordon. She dances with Fat Chance Belly Dance and is the founder and director of San Francisco Bellydance Theater, and is a member of London's Les Foules theater company. She has worked all her adult life as a line representative for her mother's brand, Masha Archer Design Studio. 

supporters

The CJM’s Gallery Chat Program is made possible by Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt.

Public Programs are made possible by the Koret Foundation and The Al and Rosanne Levitt Fund for Public Programs.

Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress, from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is organized by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and is curated by IMJ's Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life Associate Curator Efrat Assaf-Shapira. The Israel Museum’s curatorial team includes Curator in Charge Daisy Raccah-Djivre; Exhibition Curator Efrat Assaf-Shapira; Scientific Advisors No’am Bar’am Ben-Yossef and Esther Juhasz; Head of Traveling Exhibitions Sivan Eran-Levian and Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator Chandi Medad. Exhibition texts are based on the original 2014 Israel Museum exhibition Dress Codes: Revealing the Jewish Wardrobe and on The Jewish Wardrobe (edited by Esther Juhasz) published by the Israel Museum in 2012. The exhibition is organized at The CJM by Curator Heidi Rabben.

Lead Sponsorship in San Francisco is provided by the Koret Foundation, Gaia Fund, and Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt. Major Sponsorship is provided by The Bernard Osher Foundation and Dorothy R. Saxe. Patron Sponsorship is provided by Taube Philanthropies for Jewish Life and Culture and Suzanne and Elliott Felson. Supporting Sponsorship is provided Robert and Judy Aptekar, Britex Fabrics, Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg, Rosanne and Al Levitt, Siesel Maibach, Shelli Semler and Kyle Bach, Ellice Sperber, and the Ullman Family. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, David Agger, Morton and Amy Friedkin, Joy and Joel Kellman, Dr. Michael and Davida Rabbino, the Irving and Varda Rabin Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay, Tzipi and Sam Tramiel, and Marilyn and Murry Waldman.

Generous support is provided by the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Bernard and Barbro Osher Exhibition Fund of The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Image Credit

Header image: photo by Gracie Malley.