January 25
Speed Cinema Lobby

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Reception – 5 PM – 5:30 PM
Panel – 5:45 PM

Exploring Chagall’s life, his revolutionary Jewishness, and his aesthetic of beauty, love, and hope. This panel will demonstrate how Chagall’s work led him to become one of the 20th Century’s greatest artists.

Panelists

David Raskin, Ph.D., is the Mohn Family Professor of Contemporary Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a proud graduate of Kentucky Country Day School. He is the author of Donald Judd, and has contributed to publications from the Tate Modern (London), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), MCA-Chicago, the Ludwig Museum (Cologne), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and Ca’ Pesaro (Venice). His scholarship tells stories of art that probe personal experiences for their wider cultural implications. See more at www.davidraskin.com

David Y. Chack is a professor of Jewish and Holocaust Theatre at The Theatre School at DePaul University. He is also Producing Artistic Director of ShPIeL Theatre in Louisville, Chicago, Los Angeles, and is proud to be opening and directing CHAGALL IN SCHOOL by James Sherman at Kentucky Performing Arts February 8 – 17. He is a theatre consultant for Taube Center for Jewish Life and Learning in Warsaw and the Illinois Holocaust Museum. He initiated and was program curator for the 2016 Museum of the City of New York’s first major exhibition “New York’s Yiddish Theatre: From Bowery To Broadway.” He was nominated for Best Director by Broadway World for “Indecent” at the Henry Clay, Louisville and the last play he produced was “H*tler’s Tasters” at Kentucky Performing Arts. He has written for American Theater, The Forward, HowlRound and the Harold Pinter Review. His B.F.A. is from Tisch School of the Arts/NYU and studied theatre at Circle-in-the-Square Theatre on Broadway. He did Masters work at Tufts University, and Ph.D. work with his mentor Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel at Boston University. He is on the Honorary Board of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre.

We are excited to host this kick-off event to the play CHAGALL IN SCHOOL by James Sherman, directed by David Y. Chack, and produced by ShPIeL, will be February 8 – 17, 2024 at Kentucky Performing Arts. Ticket link 

ShPIeL Theatre is the grateful recipient of a grant from the Jewish Heritage Fund in Louisville, and we thankfully acknowledge our community partners of Kentucky Performing Arts, the Louisville Orchestra, and our newest community partner the Speed Art Museum.