Human Rights & Holocaust Art

PRE-WINGS series ARTICLES, ART REVIEWS, etc. by reporters, art critics, guest writers, 1970’s - 1990. (More to be added) 

1980. THE KANSAS CITY STAR, Missouri.  February 10.  ART TALK, by Donald Hoffman, Kansas City Star Art Critic

1980. THE COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN, July 25. One-man show: Ken Segan's award-winning art features mixed media prints. By Maura Fritz, Missourian staff writer

1981. THE SEATTLE WEEKLY. From March Chagall to Ben Shahn – and back, 
by Sue Ann Kendall

1982. THE OREGONIAN, Sept 25. At the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, Kenneth Akiva Segan of Seattle has hung a selection of his prints, to be exhibited through Oct. 15. By Alan Hayakawa

1982. THE NEWS SUN, Springfield, Ohio. July 10. Review: Sculpture, etchings on exhibit by Jim Hays   

1985. THE JEWISH TRANSCRIPT, Seattle, Washington. A Jewish printmaker at work, by Susan Auerbach

1987. THE AMERICAN. Surrey, England. July 10th, 1987. Aberdeen Art Gallery hosts ideological battler as artist in residence

Non-Segan authored articles published since 1991:

1992. NORTHWEST ETHNIC NEWS. “Warsaw Uprising Anniversary: 
Martyrs take wing under artist’s hand”

1993. PIKE PLACE MARKET NEWS, Seattle, Washington. October 1993. Market artist undertakes project to 'angelize' lives of Jews who died in WW2 Holocaust. By Patt Cranage

1994. THE JOURNAL AMERICAN, Bellevue, Washington. Friday, September 30, 1994. Artist draws visions of the Holocaust. By Sherry Grindeland, Journal American Features Writer

1994. THE PALM BEACH POST. Angels’ Wings Lift Artist’s Grim Work. By Gary Schwan. Photo by Mark Mirko

1994. THE SEATTLE TIMES, Seattle, Washington. Thursday Septmeber 8, 1994. Photo by Betty Udesen

1994. THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Seattle, Washington. Thursday September 15, 1994. Photo by Ellen M. Banner

1994. THE SPECTATOR, Seattle University. Local artist gives Holocaust education through art Jewish artist Kenneth Segan exhibits his series “Under the Wings of G-d” by Michell Mouton, Arts and Entertainment Editor

1994. THE SOURCE: THE CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREATER SEATTLE, Vol XVII No. 8.

• Under the Wings of G-d to be part of MOHAI exhibit ‘A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto,’ by Brooke Rolston, campus pastor (Covenant House – Campus Christian Ministry

1996. THE DAILY EGYPTIAN, student newspaper, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE. Holocaust portrayed in Different Light, by James Lyon.

1996. THE SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, Carbondale. Images of the Holocaust, by Linda Rush; photo by Ceasar Maragni.

1997. COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN. Lest we forget: Ken Segan uses art to commemorate Holocaust victims, by Kathryn Larson.

1997. THE JEWISH TRANSCRIPT, Seattle. Wings in Prison, by Jonathan Freedman 

1998. CONGREGATION EITZ OR, Seattle. Newsletter, Summer. Under the Wings of G-d, by Jonathan Freeman  

1998. MIZZOU ALUMNI CENTER MAGAZINE, UNIV. OF MISSOURI, Columbia campus. Fallen Angels, by Jon Beahler

1999. THE JEWISH TRANSCRIPT, Seattle. “Local artist and educator attends second International Holocaust Conference in Jerusalem,” by Nina Rogozen

1999. SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER. “Holocaust gives wing to artist’s passion”

2001. JT NEWS – THE VOICE OF JEWISH WASHINGTON, Seattle. “Witness & Legacy” spotlights four local artists at Frye Museum, by Jessica Davis, JT News correspondent    

2002. SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER. Holocaust Exhibit, by Judy Wagonfeld

2002. THE MAST, PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, Tacoma, Washington. Artist remembers Holocaust victims, by Jennifer Newman, October 11

2003. REBECCA KITCHIN, B.A., Visual Communication - Illustration, BIRMINGHAM INSTITUTE OF ARTS, ENGLAND. Thesis excerpt, “HOLOCAUST CAMPS WITH THAT OF CONTEMPORARY ART.”

2004. MACOMB JOURNAL. Macomb, Illinois. WIU art gallery looks to the west for artists. By Tom Redz, Journal Staff Writer

2006. COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE, MO. Artist's Tolerance Message Takes Flight, by Marcia Vanderlip

2006. THE ARGUS, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Bloomington. Artist Headlines First Holocaust Remembrance Week, by Emily Ornat

2007. TRI-CITY HERALD. Richland, WA. Exhibit a lesson on Holocaust, genocide
'Wings of Memory' at WSU-Tri-Cities 
features Seattle artist. By Sara Schilling

2007. THE ASHEN RAINBOW – ESSAYS ON THE ARTS and the HOLOCAUST, by Ori Z. Soltes. Published 2007 by Eshel Books, an imprint of Bartleby Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-935437-37-9. Includes essay, pages 85-86, “Akiva Ken Segan and the Wings of Remembrance.” Reproduction, p. 87, of UTW 33: Everyone’s Zayde, Portrait of Dodye Feig

2008. THE PRESS AND JOURNAL. Artist Highlights Holocaust Atrocities.

2008. EAST FIFE MAIL, Scotland. February 6, 2008. Pupils’ message for today from yesterday’s horror. School events help mark Holocaust Memorial Day by Ralph Mellon

2008. ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE, St. Anne’s Square, Manchester, England. Poster; postcard: Dr Korczak’s Example (a stage play). Reproduction of detail, boy in Warsaw ghetto, from UTW 42: Shoah Dreams

2008 Ode to David Eisenstadt, booklet art

2009. THE COURIER and ADVERTISER, Angus & Mearns edition, Scotland, January 22, 2009
. Pupils discuss grim history

2020 THE VIDETTE, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, Normal. Segan uses art to promote healing and focus passion for human rights, by Kacey Nichols

2024 THE DUNOON OBSERVER and ARGYLLSHIRE STANDARD, Scotland. 15 March 2024: Article-review of the 'Sans Frontiers' group show and exhibit, Dunoon, Scotland. Reviewed by David Atherton.

BIB - CANADA, GERMANY articles (publication name, date, article heading listings only. The text of some of these to be added to the website).

BIB – FLORIDA (article, flyer title, date only)

A. K. Segan BIBLIOGRAPHY - A list of article titles, published reproductions, 1992-1999 (publication name, place, and publication date only)

2002. American Society for Yad Vashem. Tribute card

Text: Akiva Segan (b. 1950)
Tykocin Synagogue – Baroque Wall, Poland, 1995

Ink and watercolor on mat board.
Gift of Alexander Schwarz in memory of his wife Trudi, their son Ronni, and his mother Anna, who perished at Auschwitz. Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum. American Society for Yad Vashem.

BIB 2006 SHULIENU, Ottawa Congegation newsletter, Primo Levi art w column on Levi

Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird
Partisans and Parasites, music CD album, 2008.

Booklet includes reproductions of 2 Segan artworks: UTW 45: Hitler’s yo-yo, Zisl the street musician & Dietrich Bonhoeffer with honorary horns;  1983 ink drawing of  anti-Nazi fighter Abba Kovner.

Jewish Family Services, Seattle

2010 tribute card: For Everything There Is A Season. For Everything There Is A Season.
Art: Silver plated 19th century Polish menorah, 1993.
India ink on paper with melted Chanukah candle wax. Akiva K. Segan, Seattle artist