KIDS, PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS JOIN MMUNITY-WIDE TV '13 µh k ORATION Picturing The Dream Jewish artists contribute to MLK Jr. exhibit. recognizable individuals she admires. "I completed this painting in 1999 after returning to the theme from time to time," says Zeldis, who began using her Hebrew name after living in Israel and calls upon memories of her Detroit back yard for her paintings. "Much earlier, when I was going through a difficult period of time, I painted Abraham Lincoln and felt strengthened. I realized I could paint other leaders and bring them into my life in that way. "I think Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great spiritual leaders of our time, and I'm thrilled to be part of the exhibit about him. My art comes from SUZANNE CHESSLER Special to the Jewish News SUNDAY. JAN. 27, 2002 • 3 P.M. Jewish Community Center • a Dan and Betty Kahn Building Eugene and Marcia. Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 W. 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"We contacted thou- sands of artists, museums and galleries asking for images of the man and the themes he [championed]," says Gary Chassman, a consultant who came up with the idea for the exhibit and supervised its development. "We got 700 submis- sions over two years and based our final selections on the quality of the works and what they represented. "Peaceable Kingdom," 1999, Malcah Zeldis (1932), We found artwork done in oil on canvas, 30x40 inches. the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and about 10 of other people's lives, and I feel indebted the artists are Jewish." Chassman, who is Jewish and.partic- to them. I now have work in more than 20 museums." ipated in the civil• rights sit-ins during Other works completed by Jewish the 1950s and '60s, came up with the artists capture the drama and immedi- idea after reflecting on American acy of King's civil rights initiatives as heroes. Once into the project, he they were carried out and as they searched for artwork completed in affected the nation. Often, the artwork many media. was part of journalistic assignments He believes that the civil rights commissioned by newspapers and movement led by King holds a strong magazines. resonance with tolerance issues con- These pieces include Harvey fronted by Jews over the centuries. Dinnerstein's drawing of a bus boycott Malcah Zeldis, 72, who grew up in in the South, Leonard Freed's pho- Detroit under the name Mildred tograhic studies of the Ku Klux Klan, Brightman, is represented by her Jeffrey Moss' oil painting of a bus as a painting Peaceable Kingdom, which is slave ship, Ben Shahn's portrait of King filled with biblical and modern figures done for the cover of Time magazine, who stand for understanding among Robert Frank's photo of a segregated people of different backgrounds. bus, Jack Levine's painting of snarling A self-taught artist who lived in dogs trying to reach black boys, Dan Israel during the 1950s and now Weiner's photo of King addressing a makes her home in New York, Zeldis church meeting and Harry Gottlieb's finds personal inspiration by painting e s3