EXHIBITS
EXHIBITS: Under the Wings, Sight-seeing with Dignity and other Holocaust and human rights artworks are available for loan exhibits and for program installations at art galleries/museums; schools; colleges and universities; community centers; art centers; Holocaust education centers and museums; houses of worship and other venues. Please use the contact form. Please include your full name; job title; work phone # including area code; site name; site address; your work email address; and a short statement of interest, thanks.
Akiva K. Segan – Art exhibits, installations, displays, 1958 – current
1958 or ’59
LEVER HOUSE, MANHATTAN, N.Y. New York City-wide City Public School pupils invitational exhibition. My work was titled “Mother & Child,” a tempera painting on paper; I was in 4th grade, age 9 or 10.
1975
B'NAI B’RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS (solo)
STUDENT UNION, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE: “Ken Segan: Drawings & Sculpture” (28 drawings, prints, wood carvings and a bronze sculpture, solo)
1976
ALLYN GALLERY, SCHOOL OF ART, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE: Ken Segan – Prints & Drawings, October 22 – 29.
FANER HALL, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE: Ken Segan Linocuts & Drawings (solo)
DUQUOIN STATE FAIR, ILLINOIS: Juried regional, group. Winner, Best Representational Drawing in Ink, Pencil or Watercolor
SHELDON SWOPE ART GALLERY, TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA: “32nd Annual Wabash Valley Exhibit” (group)
UNIVERSITY MALL, CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS: Drawings by students (including Segan) of a drawing class, SIU-C School of Art. The drawings were exhibited in the window displays of several stores.
ELIZABETH STEIN GALLERY, ST LOUIS (solo)
1977
ALLYN GALLERY, SCHOOL OF ART, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE: “Ken Segan: Etchings, Linos, Woodcuts, Drawings” (solo)
1978
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST LOUIS, MISSOURI: “Graduate Student’s Annual” (group)
DUFF’S RESTAURANT & BAR, ST LOUIS, MISSOURI: “Drawings & Prints” (solo)
GALLERY OF FINE ART, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: (solo)
B’NAI B’RITH HILLEL CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: “Boris Landa paintings & Ken Akiva Segan drawings, prints” (2 person show). Interview of the 2 artists on the NPR affialate station, KOPN-FM by Know Your Local Artists program host Francoise Bien.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at SAN MARCOS, TEXAS: “9th Annual Works on Paper National” (group)
1979
GALERI SPIELHAGEN, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI: “18 regional contemporary artists:” September (group)
FINE ARTS GALLERY, SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA: Multi-media show. Group. Article in The Columbia Missourian, Feb. 23, Prints Dominate art exhibit, by Deirdre Berger, staff writer.
DAHL FINE ARTS CENTER, RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA: “Dakota Artists Guild Black Hills Regional Art Competition” (group). 2nd Place, Graphics
SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS: “12th Annual Arkansas Artists Exhibit (group)
GALLERY OF FINE DESIGN, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: Prints by Ken Segan, February (solo)
1980
SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA: “MFA Thesis (2 person): Ed Collings ceramics; Ken Segan prints, mixed media drawings & a porcelain tile mosaic.” Segan’s work was reviewed in the article “One-man show – Ken Segan’s Award winning art features mixed media prints,’ by staff writer Maura Fritz, The Columbia Missourian, July 25.
DONALD BATMAN GALLERY, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI: “Ken Akiva Segan- Etchings, Linocuts, Woodcuts, February 1 – 23” (solo) / BIB: Review, “Art Talk – Printmakers Focus Hard to Pin Down,” by Donald Hoffman, Art and Architecture Critic, The Kansas City Star, February 10. Included reproduction of Segan’s etching ‘America, America, Sing Me the Song of the George Washington Bridge’
MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF ART, ST PAUL, MINNESOTA: “West ‘80/Art & the Law (national competition, group; Jack Levine, juror), Sponsored by the museum & West Publishing Co./ Catalog. (2 Segan artworks; The Prisoner was awarded a purchase prize). BIB included the West ’80 /Art & the Law catalog; and The West Collection coffeetable art book. A small color reproduction of The Prisoner is viewable online in an American Bar Association journal-magazine via the Googlebooks website. Selected photos of West ’80 art are on pages 865 to 869; The Prisoner is at left, scroll down to page 869.
GALLERY OF FINE DESIGN, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI Solo show of Segan art. Separate group show of ceramics, jewelry, sculpture and paintings by other artists. Article in The Columbia Missourian by Deirde Berger, staff writer.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN MARCOS: “9th Annual Works on Paper Competition” (group)
1981
SEATTLE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, downtown Seattle, Washington: “Ken Akiva Segan: Etchings & Alfred Gay: Relief Prints”
HERRETT MUSEUM, COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO: “Paper Works III Biennial” (group)
TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI, SEATTLE: “Ken Akiva Segan – Etchings & Mixed Media Works on Paper, March 6 – 16” (solo)
ARTHEAD GALLERY, SEATTLE: “Ken Akiba Segan - Etchings” (solo)
HOWELL STREET GALLERY, SEATTLE: “Sculpture by Kenneth Fisher, Paintings by Lily Eng, Prints & Mixed Media Works on Paper by Ken Akiba Segan” (3-person)
TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI, SEATTLE: “Fall Exhibit of Biblical Art & Judaic Themes” (group) BIB: Feature article: “Visual Arts – From Marc Chagall to Ben Shahn – and Back,” by Sue Ann Kendall, The Seattle Weekly, March 12.
1982
LANDMARK CENTER, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA: “West ‘82/Art & Law.” National exhibit, sponsored by West Publishing Co. BIB: Illustrated catalog (group)
DECORDOVA & DANA MUSEUM, LINCOLN, MASSACHUSETTS: “34th National Boston Printmakers” (group)
SPRINGFIELD ART ASSOCIATIO, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS: “Second National Prints Exhibition” (group)
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, ILLINI UNION GALLERY, URBANA: “Ken Akiva Segan: Etchings” (solo)
DONALD BATMAN GALLERY, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI: “Male/Female” (group)
SPRINGFIELD ART ASSOCATION, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO: “Arnold Epp: Sculpture, and Ken Akiba Segan: Etchings” (2 person). BIB: Review, “Sculpture, Etchings on Exhibit,” by Jim Hays in The Springfield News- Sun newspaper, July 10. Included reproduction of Segan’s etching “The City.” The url of a video of Segan, in 2015, reading aloud Mr. Hay’s 1982 published review (10 min., 56 sec): “Fab scathing review of A. K. Segan art, The News Sun, Springfield Ohio 1982 by Jim Hays”
MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, PORTLAND, OREGON: (solo) Review by Alan Hayawaka in The Portland Oregonian.
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN GRAPHIC ARTISTS, held at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Manhattan, NY National competition (group)
1983
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, SEATTLE: “Ken Akiva Segan: Architectural Drawings & Prints” (solo)
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, OREGON: “Recent Acquisitions” (group)
CHENEY COWLES MEMORIAL MUSEUM, SPOKANE, Washington: “Northwest Juried Art ’83” (group)
ALEXANDRIA MUSEUM, VISUAL ART CENTER, LOUSIANA: “September Competition” (group)
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO: “Pacific States Prints & Drawings” (group)
ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER, SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA: “2-D National” (group)
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, ART DEPT GALLERY, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: “MFA/MA Alumni Invitational” (group)
THE VIRGINIA INN, SEATTLE: “Segan portrait drawings & prints” (solo)
STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, MERCER ISLAND, WASHINGTON: “Yusuf Uzel - Miniatures; Ken Akiba Segan - Prints & Drawings” (2-person)
1984
Portland Art Museum, OREGON: “RECENT ACQUISITIONS, PRINTS” (group)
KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL GALLERY, JAPAN: “10th Int’l Independants Prints Exhibit” (group)
OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB, NOWY SACZ, POLAND: “Landscape as a Source of Artistic Inspiration” (group)
POLONIA SOCIETY, KRAKOW, POLAND: “Landscape as a Source of Artistic Inspiration” (group)
STONE PRESS GALLERY, SEATTLE: “Exotic Art Exhibit” (group)
THE VIRGINIA INN, SEATTLE: “Ken Akiba Segan: Prints & Drawings” (solo)
PENSACOLA JR COLLEGE, FLORIDA: “Pensacola National Portrait Exhibit” (group)
1985
EQUIVALENTS GALLERY, SEATTLE: “Prints: Jiri Anderle of Czechoslovakia, Allan Brewster of Portland, OR; Ken Akiva Segan of Seattle” (three-person). Feature article on Segan’s art in The Jewish Transcript, Seattle, by writer Susan Auerbach: “The Eastern European Influence,” March 7. / BIB: Feature article, “A Jewish printmaker at work,” by Susan Auerbach, with reproduction of Martin Buber etching, in The Seattle Weekly, March 7.
DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM, LINCOLN, MASSACHUSETTS: Recent acquisitions (group)
KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL GALLERY, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: “11th International Prints Exhibit” (group)
1987
GRACIE’S RESTAURANT, SEATTLE: “Ken Akiva Segan: Prints, Drawings, Mixed media works on paper; mixed media furniture” (solo)
HARD TIMES GALLERY, BRISTOL, ENGLAND: “Prints with a point” (group)
ABERDEEN ART GALLERY, SCOTLAND: “International Artist-in-Residence exhibition” (solo) / BIB: The url of a video taken by Segan includes playing of a radio interview of Segan during his residency (10 min., 24 sec): “Northsound radio, Scotland, 1987 Edi Stark interview w/ artist A.K.Segan, Aberdeen Art Gallery”
PRATT ART CENTER, SEATTLE: Seattle Glass Artists & Printmakers (group)
EASTSIDE UNITARIAN CHURCH, BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON: “Portraits” (group)
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE, SEATTLE: Seattle office installation of “Homage to Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, 1984” & another Segan artwork for one year; overlapped my International Artist-in-Residency, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland)
1987-88
WHATCOM MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON: “Seventh Northwest International” (group)
1988
SEATTLE CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL, SEATTLE CENTER: “Imagination Children's Celebration” (group)
1989
ARTS-IN-ACTION SOCIETY, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA: International Exhibition Against Racism - “La Peur de l’autre / Fear of Others.” Catalog (group) Trans-Canadian tour, 1990-91. / L’Art Contre Le Racisme, En Quéte de Tolerance / In Search of Tolerance. Claudine Pommier, catalog editor, art reproduction, p. 89: “Elie’s Sin” / “Le Péche d’Elie” Segan’s artwork: “Elie’s Sin” (see Other Holocaust Art – 1984) / BIB (text only)
ELLIOTT BAY BOOKSTORE CAFÉ, SEATTLE: “Ken Akiva Segan: Drawings & Prints” solo)
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, ART DEPARTMENT, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: “Graduate Alumni Exhibit” (group)
BUMBERSHOOT ARTS FESTIVAL, SEATTLE CENTER: “Some Assembly Required” (group)
1990
STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, MERCER ISLAND, WASHINGTON: “Jacob Kohn, Paintings & Akiva Ken Segan, Drawings” (2 person)
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE, PARIS, FRANCE: “Estampes et livres d’artistes du Xxe siècle: Enrichissements du Cabinet des Estampes 1978-88” Recent acquisitions (group)
1991
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, OREGON: “Recent Acquisitions - Works on Paper” (group)
1992
BURKE MUSEUM, HUB STUDENT UNION, & KANE HALL, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE: Program display of Under the Wings of G-d drawings at 3 venues durng the National Holocaust Scholars Conference & Lutheran Church Struggle conference reception at the Burke; during speaker programs at the HUB Student Union and at Kane Hall.
B’NAI B’RITH HILLEL, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE: “Ken Akiva Segan - Ten Drawings from the UTW series & Select Seattle-themed Drawings & Prints” (solo). / BIB: Feature article, “Under the Wings of G-d – A Jewish ghetto in black & white,” by Chuck Knutson, in The Daily student newspaper, University of Washington, Seattle, November 12. Included reproductions of UTW 1: Muranow Street trolley, Warsaw ghetto; and UTW 2: Man with tattered coat.
STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, MERCER ISLAND, WASHINGTON: Program display of UTW drawings accompanied talk by (the late) Benjamin Meed, President of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM-SPONSORED PIONEER SQUARE ARTIST’S STUDIOS TOURS, SEATTLE, MAY 17. Tour attendees visiting Westworks Studios saw, at Segan’s studio, “A History of Jewish Writing from the Ten Commandments to the 20th century,” and early drawings of the Under the Wings series.
1993
SEATTLE PUBLIC THEATRE & KADIMA COMMUNITY SCHOOL, SEATTLE: A Nail in the Sole -The Art of Resistance, lobby exhibit: UWG artworks. Also over-the-stage slide projection of UWG drawings & paintings by late survivor artist Israel Bernbaum of Warsaw/NY
STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, MERCER ISLAND, WASHINGTON: Chanukah Fair display included 8 Under the Wings art series drawings
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SCHOOL, SEATTLE: Installation of UTW drawings at 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto ghetto uprising education program
1994
MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY, SEATTLE: Seven Under the Wings art series drawings and a photo exhibit: 'A Birthday Trip to Hell - Warsaw Ghetto' photos by late Nazi soldier Heinz Jost.
BURKE MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE: Program display of Under the Wings drawings a museum open house for the Rotary Club of Seattle
1995
B’NAI B’RITH KLUTZNICK NATIONAL JEWISH MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, DC: “From There to Here: 8 Jewish Artists from Pacific NW” (group)
BROADWAY MARKET, SEATTLE: “An exhibit of 20 Drawings by Seattle artist Ken Akiva Segan from the “Under the Wings of G-d” Drawing Series on the Warsaw Ghetto & Uprising in Poland, 1939 – 43.” Sponsored by “The Anne Frank & Friends Coalition” and “Uniting in Diversity” education programs organized by King County, Washington. BIB: The url of a 1 min., 55 sec. news footage: “Holocaust art exhibit reception,” KOMO-TV news Dec 3 Seattle”
NORTHWEST ACTORS THEATRE, SEATTLE: Installation of Under the Wings series drawings; and over-the-stage projection of wings series art and and art by late survivor Israel Bernbaum during performances of the The Art of Resistance.
SEATTLE BATHHOUSE THEATRE: Lobby & auditorium installation of Under the Wings artworks w/ Holocaust-themed play on Warsaw Ghetto mime Rubinsztajn.
PHINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY CENTER, SEATTLE Portraits Exhibition (group)
1996
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, ART DEPT, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: Installation of Under the Wings drawing, 'Mordecai Aniliewicz’ during week of Segan guest lecturing in Columbia
B’NAI B’RITH HILLEL, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA: Installation of Under the Wings series drawings at reception of Segan’s slide lecture as part of the Mid-Missouri Holocaust Memorial Month programs
LEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: Classroom display of UTW drawings
BLUE RIDGE ELEMEMTARY SCHOOL, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: Classroom display of UTW drawings
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE, FANER HALL MUSEUM: Lobby installation of Under the Wings drawings at reception of Segan’s auditorium lecture.
UNITY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS: Classroom display of UTW drawings. The url of 7 min., 57 sec. video footage taken during the Holocaust Educ thru Art classroom teaching at the Unity Point school.
FAIRWOOD BRANCH, KING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM, WASHINGTON: Seven UTW drawings (solo). / BIB: Feature Article by Dean Radford: "Under the Wings of G-D: Drawings, paintings give Holocaust victims dignity," The Valley Daily News, Kent, Washington, January 19; included reproduction of Under the Wings 2: Man with tattered coat / King County Library News, January issue: Article, “Uniting in Diversity,” included blurb on exhibit of Under the Wings of G-d art at the Fairwood Library branch, King County Library System
MERCER ISLAND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, MERCER ISLAND, WA: Ten Under the Wings of G-d drawings (solo). / BIB: Article in the MIUMC newsletter, ‘Passing It On,’ by Lesley Koester: “Wings of God Artwork Visits MIUMC”
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA NATIONAL BIANNUAL CONFERENCE, SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER: “Twenty UTW series drawings (solo).” / BIB: Feature article, “Humanizing the Holocaust,” by Florangela Davila, The Seattle Times, November 14. The online article is text only; the hardcopy edition included a photo of Segan with 2 Under the Wings drawings; and a large detail photo of an Under the Wings drawing.
1997
TEMPLE BETH AM, SEATTLE: Twenty UTW drawings (solo)
1998
SEATTLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ART GALLERY: Under the Wings of G-d art exhibit (solo)
1999
UNIVERSITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SEATTLE, NARTHEX EXHIBIT: Under the Wings drawings (solo)
2000
UNIVERSITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SEATTLE: Narthex installation of ‘Shoah Dreams (UTW 42) with with Holocaust Memorial Service co-led by Segan and Rev. Dr. Donald MacKenzie, accompanied by D’vorah Kost on accordion and singing. / BIB: The Seattle Times, April 29, feature article by Sally Macdonald: Church targets anti-Semitism.
UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH, SEATTLE: Narthex installation of “Shoah Dreams” at Holocaust Memorial Service co-led by Rev. Jean Vandergrift and Segan, with D’vorah Kost on accordion and leading the singing
ABERDEEN ART GALLERY, SCOTLAND: “Stars & Stripes: Images of the USA” (group) BIB: (Text-only listing).
2001
UNIVERSITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SEATTLE: Narthex installation of UTW 42: Shoah Dreams, for congregational attendees of a Holocaust remembrance service co -led by Rev. Dr. Donald MacKenzie; Akiva K. Segan and D’vorah Kost, April 30. / BIB: The Seattle Times, April 29, article by Sally MacDonald: “Church targets anti-Semitism” (text only online. The hardcopy issue included a photo of Segan, Univ. Congregational Church interfaith Committee chair Stan Willard; and UCC senior pastor Rev. Dr. Donald MacKenzie standing next to UTW 42: Shoah Dreams, at the ornithology lab, Burke Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.
2001 – 2002
FRYE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE: “Holocaust Art by Puget Sound Artists: Marika Frank Abrams, Selma Waldman, Gisele Berman, Akiva Ken Segan.” October 9, 2001 – January 13, 2002. BIB: Blurb with reproduction of detail from UTW 42: Shoah Dreams, published in the Pike Market News. / The url of video footage of British art historian Dr. Deborah Shultz’s exhibit auditorium talk. (The art is hard to make out; the narration is clear): “Dr Deb Schultz at Frye Art Museum, 2001: A.K.Segan, Charlotte Salomon, Arnold Daghani”
2002
WING LUKE ASIAN MUSEUM, Seattle: “Six Under the Wings of G-d series drawings, & photo exhibit on the late Chinese diplomat & Righteous Person, Feng Shan Ho” / BIB: Feature article, Tribute to an unsung hero of the Holocaust, by Judy Wagoner, The Seattle Times.
PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, Tacoma. Mortvedt Library, Hauge Administration building exhibit of seven UTW artworks (solo). Articles in The Mast, PLU student newspaper: ‘Jewish artist educates with Holocaust art at PLU and beyond,” by Jennifer Newman, November 22.
TEMPLE B’NAI TORAH, Bellevue, WA: “Akiva Ken Segan: 8 UTW artworks (solo)
2003
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM, Spokane WA: 3-month installation of UTW 36: Young man with Star of David armband in the Warsaw ghetto
2004
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, MACOMB: “Twenty Under the Wings of G-d drawings by Akiva Ken Segan (solo) BIB: Western Illinois University, Macomb, March, March exhibit, “Holocaust Drawings Included in WIU Art Gallery Exhibitions” (includes color photo of UTW 32, Laja Lederman and daughters)
2006
STEPHENS COLLEGE, DAVIS ART GALLERY, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: Twenty-one Under the Wings and Sight-seeing with Dignity art series drawings (solo) / BIB: “Serious lessons — Artist's exhibits help children understand the horrors of the Holocaust,” by Erin Marshall, The Columbia Missourian, March 26 / “Drawings individualize hate crime victims,” by Justin Hienz, The Columbia Missourian, February 27.
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, AMES LIBRARY, BLOOMINGTON: Twenty-one Under the Wings and Sight-seeing with Dignity art series drawings (solo) / BIB: News & Events: Holocaust Artist To Speak at IWU.
2007
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS, BAUM GALLERY, CONWAY: “Not In Your Face: The Art of Translating Intolerance” (group show of art by five artists; seven Under the Wings drawings exhibited)
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, ART GALLERY,TRI-CITIES: Twenty-two UTW & SWD drawings (solo) / BIB: Washington State University, Tri-Cities, Washington state, Oct. 8, “Holocaust and genocide topics of art exhibit” https://news.wsu.edu/2007/10/08/holocaust-and-genocide-topics-of-art-exhibit/
2009
VIVANT ART GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA: “Transcending History – Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust” (group)
2012
UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH, SEATTLE: Program display of SWD series drawing of Victor Jara, executed 1973; and UTW series drawing of Giettel Laski, murdered at the Nazi death camp at Majdanek, Poland, with the Holocaust & human rights service the artist was invited to lead with the UBC congregational community. The artist also presented a power-point lecture after the service. / The url of a video of Segan’s Human rights Holocaust & human rights educ talk. At left and right the Jara and Laski drawings are seen on easels (22 min., 37 sec):
2013
SEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE, M. ROSETTA HUNTER GALLERY: “Akiva Kenny Segan: Under the Wings of G-d & Sight-seeing with Dignity.
HILLEL CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE: “Akiva Kenny Segan: Selected UTW & SWD series art. Three drawings not part of the UTW & SWD series were also exhibited: “Giorgio Bassani & 3 Scenes of Ferrara, Italy;” “Prague Torah Crown, 1839;” and “Early 20th C. Brass Chanukah Menorah, Poland”
2015
CASCADIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MOBIUS GALLERY, BOTHELL, WASHINGTON. January 12 -23rd Human rights themed group show of art & photography. 2 Segan artworks: UTW mosaic-drawing: Multiple-amputee awaiting deportation, Lodz, Poland; an SWD series drawing: Chico Mendez, murdered Amazon rainforest activist & defender of Indigenous peoples (group). / The url of video footage of Segan’s auditorium talk during the opening day of the college Human Rights education programs (13 min., 40 sec): “Human Rights & Holocaust art talk, Cascadia College, Wash., Jan. 2015”
2016
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, STUDENT UNION, HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE & GENOCIDE AWARENESS. January 27 evening program display of UTW 63: Pére Jacques; UTW 62: Zlata Barshewsky of Bialystok mosaic-drawing combo artworks. Program included a 10 min. talk by Segan, audience Q&A. / The url of video footage of Segan’s talk, Q&A during the program (19 min., 10 sec): “2016 Holocaust Remembrance, Seattle Univ. w/artist A.K. Segan, 2 monumental mosaic artworks” https://youtu.be/tM68yWa7_os
MT BAKER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SEATTLE. "For the Love of the Earth.” 2 of Segan’s Sight-seeing w/ Dignity art series drawings: Chico Mendes of Brazil; Ken Saro-Wiwa of Nigeria (group) / The url of video footage of the 2 Segan artworks at the exhibit (12 min): “Human rights art: Chico Mendes, Ken Saro-Wiwa at Seattle Mt Baker Arts Ctr / art” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxqkZwhky00 / BIB: Mt Baker Neighborhood Center for the Arts website, full color reproduction of the Saro-Wiwa drawing: https://mtbakerarts.wordpress.com/currently-showing/2016-02-12_15-36-53_ji8b5925/
HILLMAN CITY COLLABORATORY, COLUMBIA CITY DISTRICT, SEATTLE (a community center): Art by Rainer Waldman Adkins of Seattle, Sooze Bloom of Vashon Island, and Segan. 3 Segan artworks: Jewish Labor Bund, Warsaw, mixed media drawing; Abe Cahan of the Forward, etching & drypoint; Early 20th C. brass Chanukah menorah, Poland, drawing. / The url of a video compilation (22 min., 21 sec): “Seattle Purim 2016 /Art: Rainer W.Adkins, Sooze Bloom, A.K.Segan / Music: BucharestDrinkingTeam! Online reproduction of Segan’s Jewish Bund Memorial, Warsaw artwork, in The Seattle Globalist
SEATTLE CONVENTION CENTER: "Washington - It's Our Waters." 4 Segan artworks: Sir Herbert Read's magical Puget Sound art tour; Puget Sound geflites, lutefisk historical art document; Rare Puget Sound gefilte fish; The dreaded 2-headed Lake Washington hok-a-Chinik gefilte fish (group)
SEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE, M. ROSETTA HUNTER GALLERY: "Beyond Words: World Calligraphy." Two Segan artworks: Hebrew letters dancing in the forest at sunrise; A History of Jewish writing from the Ten Commandments to the 20th century (group) / BIB: Text exhibit announcement in The International Examiner, Seattle’s International District: https://iexaminer.org/arts-etc-may-21-2016/ / The url of a video, exhibit reception (2 min., 14 sec): “3 reception goers view A.K. Segan's History Jewish writing art, Seattle Central College, May 2016” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4oGeekFhU
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, FANER HALL MUSEUM, CARBONDALE: Artists Respond to War. Segan work: Vietnam special # 1 (1972-73 multi-image lino; on the mat: Anti-Vietnam war momentos & Martin Luther King memorial armband worn in memorial march the day after his assassination (group)
2017
MT BAKER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SEATTLE: “To Honor the Children” AKS art: The Sea monsters & the sailing ship St Louis, 1939 (group)
ARTSPACE HIAWATHA, SEATTLE, JULY. AKS art: The Seeeattle Times - Extra!! Giant doggie, boids wreak havoc downtown Seattle. Gefiltes, lutefisk spotted in Puget Sound (group)
2018 JACKSON PLACE COMMUNITY COUNCIL, SEATTLE. Holiday Party, December. Event-program display of “Puget Sound Art Document, with gefiltes, lutefisk & cannelloni,” a mixed media (Segan) artwork.
ARTSPACE HIAWATHA, SEATTLE. April 11 Holocaust Remembrance & Human Rights Awareness program program display of 3 UTW mosaic-drawing combo works; five Sight-seeing w/ Dignity human rights art series drawings (solo)
MT BAKER NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, SEATTLE and ANT GALLERY, SEATTLE CENTER: “Please touch” exhibit. The first installation was at the Mt Bake Center, then later exhibited at the ANT Gallery, Seattle Center. Segan art: A 1970-71 wood ship figurehead wood carving (group) The url of video footage of Segan standing next to his carving (46 sec): “2017: HMS Gefilte figurehead ship carving, 1971, w/ artist A K Segan”
2019
ARTSPACE HIAWATHA, SEATTLE. January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day & human rights awareness program display of select UTW mosaic-drawing combos; recent SWD and UTW series drawings (solo)
ASSOCIATION OF THE VISUAL ARTS GALLERY, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. Hard-Ground Printmakers - Printmaking Sans Frontiers London 2019 - A 30 years collaborative Printmaking Retrospective. Sept-Oct. Segan work: The Sea demons and the sailing ship St Louis, 1939, linocut (group)
PHINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER GALLERY, SEATTLE. The Healing Power of Art (group show), Sept 13 - Oct 18. (Segan art: SWD 29, Franz Kafka visits from the Other World to glimpse the bigot US president Trump)
2023
Aberdeen Art Fair, Scotland, September 3-4, 2023.
Printmaking Sans Frontiere. Group show.
Organized by Capetown, S. Africa raised artist, and British resident Jono Comerford.
The A. K. Segan artwork: "The Sea Demons and the Sailing Ship St Louis, 1939."
Linocut print, 2017.
2024
SEATTLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
February 4, at a pre-service one hour church program addressing the the October 7,2023 and ongoing Hamas-Gaza-Palestinian and Israeli conflict, 5 artworks were viewed by the assembled congregants: Jerusalem Mosaic, of 2007 (viewable in the Other Human Rights art gallery) and these Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series drawings: SWD 23; SWD 51; SWD 52; SWD 57.
At the February 11, 2024 church program addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two A.K. Segan drawings were displayed: Sight-seeing with Dignity series, SWD 36: Peace an Illusion! Prepared for Collusion! Two victims of The Troubles & 2 people-devouring Loch Neathach sea monsters-of-the-faith, northern Ireland; and the 2018 drawing: Wrestling mit Hannah Arendt, the Shoah, Bayer Leverkusen aspirin and slave labor (viewable in the Other Holocaust Art gallery)
2024
SEATTLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
February 4, at a pre-service one hour church program addressing the the October 7,2023 and ongoing Hamas-Gaza-Palestinian and Israeli conflict, 5 artworks were viewed by the assembled congregants: Jerusalem Mosaic, of 2007 (viewable in the Other Human Rights art gallery) and these Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series drawings: SWD 23; SWD 51; SWD 52; SWD 57.
2024
Dunnoon Burgh Hall Gallery, Dunoon, Scotland, 8 March - 10 April.
Exhibit title: Hardground Printmakers San Frontiers linocut program, 1991–2021.
Organized by artist Jonathan Comerford. The exhibit them is Comeford's outreach to
artists across the borders of visual art practice, culture, race, and gender identity.
There are 46 artists represented with 54 prints.
A.K.Segan's artwork is his 2017 lino The Sea Demons and the Sailing Ship
St Louis, 1939 (see the Other Holocaust Art Gallery).