available power-point classes

Background & Influences

1. Background & Influences to the UTW art series (A. K. Segan art)

2. Overview of the 10 mosaic-drawing combos of the UTW art series (A.K. Segan art) 

3. Background & Source Imagery, UTW 42: Shoah Dreams, the largest work in the wings series. Depictions include 28 people, two Polish synagogues; a Torah crown; an Italian-Jewish wedding ring; birds’ wings

4. UTW & SWD: Selections from the series on victims of the Holocaust, Fascism in Europe, and contemporary human rights art series (A. K. Segan art)

5. Selected (non-wings series) Holocaust art by A. K. Segan includes The Shoah Trilogy and selected other works, 1984 - 2017

6. My Brother’s Keeper. Art by Israel Bernbaum, a late Warsaw Jewish district-raised, American immigrant and award-winning children’s book author

7. My Brother’s Keeper & UTW: Selected Holocaust paintings by Bernbaum; selected Under the Wings art series art by Segan. Bernbaum & Segan corresponded in '92; Bernbaum passed on in 1993.

8. Selected human rights - tolerance education art by artist A K Segan. An overview of selected artworks dating back to the 1972 Vietnam linocut. The class includes Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights series artworks. For background, 2 Holocaust education artworks are included:  Elie's Sin (1984); Under the Wings 1 (Muranow Trolley).

9. “WOW! THESE SELF-PORTRAITS ARE INCREDIBLE!” Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944) art. Includes examples of pre-war landscape, boat and harbor works, with a focus on his extraordinary array of self-portraits and still-life works made while in-hiding, Brussels, Belgium. Class outline here.

10. Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930-49: Paintings and drawings by late Polish Jewish survivor Toby Knobel Fluek.

11. Selected UTW series art portraying Polish- Jewish Holocaust victims  (A. K. Segan art)

12. Selected UTW art portraying Nazi and Fascist victims from Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands (A. K. Segan art)

13. The Third Reich in Austria- Germany, 5 Protestant German resisters, the Holocaust 
(A. K. Segan art)

14. Italy, Croatia: Portrayals of victims of Fascism and the Nazis in Italy, and of Fascists in Croatia during WWII  (A. K. Segan art)

15. Four mosaic-drawings of the UTW series including photos showing stages of the drawings and the mosaics in-progress  (A. K. Segan art) 

16. Tolerance education for children ages 5-9; also suitable for adolescent ages; for teacher education training and for student-teachers-in-training. Tolerance educ art for children, adolescents, youth/teens, teachers. The presentation will feature examples of Segan’s Holocaust and human rights education art portraying infants, children and youth.  Included will be 3 artworks made in 2017 about the German - Jewish passengers, including children, who set set sail on a passenger liner from Hamburg, Germany to Cuba in 1939 with the hope of reaching safe haven far from Nazi Germany – Austria.   

17. Selected Literary, Film & Photographic Influences on my Holocaust, Fascism and human rights art, 1972 to the present (A. K. Segan art). The presentation will feature books, films, photos which provided visual source inspiration and/or idea subject sources for select artworks. Presentations may include work by late survivors & authors Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, Gisele Feldman; murdered French surrealist poet Robert Desnos; murdered Polish Jewish playwright, visual artist Bruno Schulz; murdered Czech Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff; late French film director Louis Malle; late Welsh photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths; late Russian-born Jewish-American photographer Roman Vishniac; Polish Jewish photographer Monika Krajewska; American Jewish photographer Chuck Fishman; late American rabbi & author Earl Vinecour; late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe; American academic Susan Zuccotti; Canadian academic Lucienne Kroha; late academic Marilyn Schneider.

18. Photographs as Source Inspiration for Interpretative Holocaust Education Art by A.K. Segan. Examples to include photos from institutional collections, e.g. Yad Vashem; YIVO; USMM; CDEC, Milano; family photos (published & unpublished); photos published in books (e.g. The Auschwitz Album; The Pictorial History of the Holocaust; The Precious Legacy; Zuccotti’s The Italians & the Holocaust; Schneider’s The Vengeance of the Victim;  Monika Krajewska’s Time of Stones) and corresponding drawings inspired by individual photos shown in the presentation.  

19. From Metaphoric Wings to Allegorical Sea Monsters - Selected Holocaust and Human rights tolerance education art by artist Akiva K. Segan

Other (non Holocaust, non-human rights) power-point presentations by Akiva K. Segan

General (non-Holocaust, non-human rights) power-point classes includes presentations especially geared toward seniors/boomers and elderly/pensioners. Power-point class presentation times are generally 40 to 45 minutes. 

1. Mosaica-Judaica
   Mosaics from antiquity to the present day: Ancient Roman era synagogue mosaics; more recent synagogue mosaics; other Judaic themed mosaics; mosaics by Jewish artists

2. Jewish art about the High Holidays
   Painting, sculpture, prints (woodcuts, etchings, lithos), some photos and vintage postcards

3. Winged Imagery in World Art
   From antiquity to the present, of different cultures worldwide.  Includes a section on feathery garments including hats.

4. Animal Mosaics from Worldwide

5. Jewish art of Passover
   Fine art, some photos, posters, vintage postcards

6. Judaica art by A. K. Segan
   Drawings, linocuts of lamps, menorahs, Torah crowns; Jerusalem and Haifa cityscape drawings; synagogue drawings of Brighton (England), Seattle, Rome, Boston, Haifa

7. Fishy Art – A Denizens of the Deep Sea Fine Art Education Class
   Sponsored by the Puget Sound Gefilte & Lutefisk Research Studies Institute -  A power-point presentation for audiences of all ages presented by artist Akiva K. Segan, Chief Research Specialist. The illustrated class will feature over 40 artwork images by the artist & global fish researcher.  

   Depictions will include:
   a) Drawings of fresh & salt water gefiltes and lutefisk. The gefilte depictions will include the five (thus-far, as of December 2019) completed drawings of a proposed children’s illustrated educational picture book on Fresh Water and Salt Water Gefiltes of the World.
   b) Mixed media and relief printed variations created from a 1977 etching, The Ichthyologist (Proof of Evolution).