Presented by art lecturer Cindy Edelman and SFI Founder Stacey Goldring, our LiterARTure Series explores the endless ways that artistic works and literature reveal the common bonds we share as individuals, communities and societies. Examining great paintings, sculpture and written works, LiterARTure brings to light the inspiring universality of the Arts.
LiterARTure programs are presented at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida.
LiterARTure Programs
Biblical Expressions
Comfortably Mysterious
Holocaust Remembrance
Loss and Rescue
Stolen Yet Found
Stories and Symbols of Auschwitz
Keep Calm and Classically Bound
Love Letters de l’Art
Naturally Inspired
Rebels, Outlaws and Troublemakers
Running for Cover
Searching For Identity
This Land is Your Land
LiterARTure is presented by Cindy Edelman and Stacey Goldring
Cindy Edelman, an active community volunteer, is the former chair of The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida and the Jacksonville Public Education Fund, having served on the boards of the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Leadership Jacksonville and Youth Leadership Jacksonville. She was an EVE Award recipient for volunteer service, a 2015 One Jax Gold Medallion recipient, the past president of Congregation Ahavath Chesed and a founding member of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Edelman, a retired art history instructor, taught at The Bolles School and Florida State College Jacksonville. Currently, she is a member of the board for JPEF, City Year and teaches art appreciation to seniors at River Garden Hebrew Home. She received her BA from Vanderbilt University and her MAT from Jacksonville University.
Stacey Goldring, a writer and filmmaker, and founder of Searching For Identity. She facilitates writing workshops for adult children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Stacey is producing a documentary about the Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor experience and also produces documentary films on family histories. A guest lecturer at the University of Florida, she has co-taught a STEM honors course exploring Holocaust remembrance. You can join her for her monthly Chapter Endnotes Book Club, listen here or tune in for her monthly NPR book segment on WJCT 89.9 FM.
Her book, On Wooden Wheels, tells the Holocaust survivor story of a woman and her children hiding in the Dutch Countryside during the Second World War. After receiving her B.A. in Journalism from Ohio State University, she worked as a newspaper journalist. As a UF IFAS Master Naturalist, when not reading or writing, she can be found gardening in her backyard.
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