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"An Evening with Samuel Bak"

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Exhibition:
 Paintings of Samuel Bak


LECTURE, RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING: 7:00pm Monday May 11, 2009, Brown University Hillel, 80 Brown Street, Brown University, Providence, RI

EXHIBIT: May 11-23, Bopp Seminar Room, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI

LECTURE, RECEPTION, BOOK SIGNING & EXHIBIT:

Samuel Bak, born in 1933 in Vilnius, Lithuania (then Poland), is a Holocaust survivor and an internationally renowned artist. His art is exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. In 2006 the Jerusalem Art Museum of Yad Vashem dedicated to him an extensive retrospective entitled “An Ardous Road, 60 Years of Creativity.” He is the author of a highly acclaimed memoir, Painted in Words, which has been translated into several languages. Mr. Bak lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

Following Mr. Bak’s talk, a reception and book signing will be held in the John Hay Library.
Mr. Bak’s visit to Brown is part of the Mel and
Cindy Yoken Cultural Series.

An exhibition of Mr. Bak’s paintings, courtesy of the Pucker Gallery in Boston, will be on display in the Bopp Seminar Room on the third floor of the John Hay Library from May 11 to May 23.

 

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