Human Rights & Holocaust Art

Website testimonial letters WA

Card from the president of the Temple de Hirsch Sinai Sisterhood, Seattle

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A handwritten Thank You card was sent to the artist by Nancy Hyde,  
President of the Temple de Hirsch Sinai SIsterhood; 2002. 

Dear Akiva,  

Thank you for your excellent presentation to the Temple de Hirsch
Sinai Sisterhood on the Holocaust through Art. I've received many comments from those in attendance who were moved by the personal and creative nature 

of your presentation.
Sincerely,
(signed) Nancy Hyde, President

David Wolfe-Blank, born 1950 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, was a rabbi.
He was the second rabbi to serve as rabbi and spiritual service leader at Seattle's Jewish Renewal denomination synagogue, Congregation Eitz Or.

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In May 1998 he went to see the exhibit, held May 11 to 22, of Under the Wings of G-d artwork held at the Seattle Central Community College gallery. In the Guest - Comments book, with a ball-point pen, he wrote Wonderful!
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I regret I never got a chance to talk with him about the exhibit after he saw it.
Just three months later, while driving back towards Washington state during a family vacation they took in British Columbia, Canada,

David, his wife Elaine and their son, Uriel, age 5, were in an catastrophic car accident on Friday, August 28th. While Elaine and son Uriel were okay, David was critically injured. Comatose, he was airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Hospital. The next day, Saturday, August 29th, he was taken off of life and thus left this world. He was survived by his wife, son and further away, a sibling and other relatives; and a grief-stricken congregational community.

Preface by the artist, July 12, 2021: Ruth Berkbigler is a friend and retired Seattle Public Library co-worker. In 1981 we worked in Circulation Services, Seattle Public Library. That decade I met her three teenage children. After her son Sean died in a tragic plane crash, April 1991, I spoke at the memorial held at a Seattle church.

In 2013, her other son, Andrew, a high school teacher and school librarian, spoke at the reception of the Under the Wings of G-d and Sight-seeing with Dignity series artworks at the Hillel Center, University of Washington, Seattle.

[See this Youtube posted video footage of Andrew’s reception talk]:  
Holocaust art, U WA Hillel: Shorecrest HS teacher Andy Berkbigler: A.K.Segan Shoah art 1991-2013 © (3 min., 5 sec) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgHDdlqn8g

In July 2021 I came across a letter, dated October 5, 1984, that Ms. Berkbigler sent me after she’d gone to see an exhibit of my portrait artworks at the Virginia Inn, a tavern and eatery near the Pike Market, downtown Seattle. The exhibit was titled "Portraits - Prints and Drawings by Ken Segan."

Now decades later, on re-reading her review, I think it’s brilliant. I’m convinced that had she submitted it to The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (a hardcopy newspaper then), or to The Seattle Weekly or The Seattle Stranger, I bet an editor would have accepted it - and it would have seen ink as a freelance art review. Her graduate level English major university studies of years ago is evident in her writing.

A note about some of the portraits she wrote about in her review (her letter's text follows).  In the early 1980’s I’d created a large 2x3 foot vertical drypoint (a type of etching), a portrait of Karl Marx, titled “Karl M;” and a 2x3 foot vertical etching and aquatint print portrait of Groucho Marx, titled “Groucho Ride Again.” Based on her description of the Marx as “resplendent in his geometric platform,” the Virginia Inn exhibit included Karl M. I don't recall if the Groucho Marx drypoint - etching portrait was exhibited or not.

A hand-colored proof of "Karl M." is in the Gilkey Prints Collection, Portland Art Museum, Oregon. I recall a Polish artist I’d met in Krakow, in summer 1984, saw photos I had with me of the two versions (black and white, color) and described them as “The Technicolor Well-Fed Karl Marx” and “The Starving Karl Marx.”

The following is the text of Ruth Berkbigler’s letter:

“October 5, 1984, Friday
Ken:
Your show as a whole is deeply intensifying to the emotions, and such exquisite work. I wrote this response to it in the form of a letter to the editor. I do know that the great man theory went out with the Romantics, but a little anachronism never hurt anybody. Do you think I should send it to the newspapers?”
(signed) Ruth”

By Ruth Berkbigler
“EXHIBIT REVIEW: PORTRAITS AND PRINTS by artist Ken Segan,

"Currently there is a series of portraits being shown at the Virginia Inn which I would like to recommend. In our gray age of computer efficiency, and less-than-grand statesmen, it is edifying again to be reminded that individual people can achieve a greatness. Ken Segan suggests this with his powerful grouping of prints and mixed media portraits.

Sitting in the Virginia Inn these days is like being in the company of humanist saints. Igor Stravinsky looms protectively over the bar, his strong unconventional rhythms informing the portrait with a pulsing three-dimensionality.  Most of the figures float solitary in the space of the prints, thinkers, “forever voyaging through strange seas of thoughts alone.”

Marx and Freud, however, are part of systems, Marx, resplendent, upheld by a geometric platform and Freud, immersed in the depths of the sea (the subconscious?) with fish and reptiles. The loneliness of the thinker is stressed by the clearly defined heads surrounded by the abstract nature of their thought: Einstein in the airy vacancy of space; Bartok with his pungent discordancies of eastern European melodies; Lech Walesa tangled and encumbered in a green and brown labyrinth of conscience; John Brown in the disorder of an anguished mind.

Ed, the unsung hero, who knows because he babbles, is set amidst scrawled literary references and dancing forms. The artist himself emerges in a grave statement, “Self portrait with starving artist,” the artist’s head side-by-side with a very bony skeleton.

Segan’s lines are strong and definite. The thinker is set firmly in the concrete visual representation of his thought, a Gesalt attempt to present the confounding complexity of a person thinking, the totality of the self and its consciousness. Out of this emerges a tribute to people who have been and are great among us, a homage to achievement and struggle, and a promise that the human mind and spirit is the greatest wealth we have.”

Marie Martin Hall was an acquaintance who I must have chatted with at the Magnolia branch, Seattle Public Library, where I worked in the 1990's. She learned I was an artist and based on the date of her letter, she went to see the exhibit of Under the Wings of G-d art at the Broadway Market, Capitol Hill district, Seattle, December 1995. She might have seen the KOMO tv news coverage of the opening reception of that exhibit, see below.

Now June 28, 2021 I just read an obit about her published in the The Seattle Times, 2018. She was born in 1929. The obit:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/seattletimes/name/marie-hall-obituary?pid=190949392

The text of her typed letter:
"Dear Ken:
It was a memorable experience for me to attend your showing today. Although I have been an art lover most of my life and have visited many of the world's great art capitals, I must say that your work moved me more than any other I have seen.

Intellectually and artistically, I know, of course, that your work is unique and excellent, but it is more than that. The people you have drawn seem so wonderfully, yet so poignantly alive. Their eyes pierce me, beckon me. Their gestures invite me. My spirit leaps out to the people
 in your pictures. I love them on sight. I have known people who resemble several of those you have drawn.

 ...a woman moves me to want to ask her in for hot tea and nourishing soup, the latter accompanied by homemade bread, and followed by a clean, warm bed, and the promise of a safe haven for as long as necessary.

The children in your pictures move me even more. As a mother, my arms instinctively reach out to enfold them, to life them, to carry them home where I could care for them in the absence of their own parents.

No one needs to prove the Holocaust to me, Ken. As you know, I have seen many refugees who had managed to reach the United States after World War II. I would see them riding the subway on their way to work to and from the jobs they worked as part of their gallant effort to rebuild their lives after the atrocities. I will never forget the numbers on their arms.

But for those who have not seen for themselves, or for those who may need reminders, there is your work. What a mission  you  have been called to, and have responded to. It is a privilege to know you, Ken, and to have seen your work."

"(signed in pen) M a r i e
Marie Martin Hall
(followed by her home address in Seattle's Magnolia district)
(dated) December 3, 1995

P.S. The new picture you unveiled today was unusually striking, I thought. And I was impressed by your color work, which I do not think I had seen before."

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P.S. by Akiva K. Segan, June 28, 2021: KOMO tv news, Seattle, reported on the opening reception of the exhibit at the Broadway Market, Dec. 3, 1995. I'm guessing Marie Hall must have gone to the exhibit on Dec. 4th or 5th; if she attended the reception she didn't say hello at the time. This is a 1 min. 55 sec video excerpt of that KOMO news program, which began with reporting on President Clinton and the war in Bosnia; continues with news on the assassination of Rabin in Israel; and news on the Broadway Market Holocaust education exhibit: Holocaust art exhibit reception, Seattle's KOMO-TV news Dec 3 '95 / artist A.K. Segan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdU3Iho-Zh0

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10 min., 25 sec video footage of the Broadway Market exhibit. (There are at least 2 color artworks in the show, regarding the postscript Marie Martin Hall wrote in her letter):  Holocaust Art Educ: Seattle Broadway Market 1995 Holocaust art tour w/ A.K.Segan © https://youtu.be/uq3YER8Q3G0

Earl Dean Hanna was an acquaintance I chatted with at Seattle Public Library. Around 1982 he visited my art studio, which was in the YMCA building downtown from the main library on 4th Avenue downtown.

He told me he had worked as a designer and during the visit, he critiqued my drawing imagery of alpha-numerics in a drawing I showed him, "I'm just pacin' round this rink. Just because they can think, I'm locked up in this rink." [see Other Human Rights Art, 1984]

Sometime after his visit I repainted each letter of the title, in ink on the bottom of the drawing.

On November 2, 1986 I visited him at his apartment and drew an ink portrait of him there. He said he was born in the late 1930's. The next year I must have sent him the announcement card of the winter 1987 Gracie's Restaurant exhibit, as he sent the letter (see the attached image) after he went to see that exhibit. In spring 2021 I looked on the net to see if he is still around; one website states Earl Dean Hanna is deceased but I didn't find any verification of that in any other websites.

Of his ink drawing at the top of his Feb. 15, 1987 letter, where he wrote
Rothchild Alshiemers, I assume he intentionally misspelled both words; and he wasn't Jewish, by the way.

Portrait of Earl Dean Hanna.
Dated Nov. 2, 1986. Ink on paper, 18 in. H x 12 5/8 W
Framed, 18 1/4 H x 14 1/4 W

Heather Wright, of blessed memory, was a coworker at Seattle Public Library

Letter from Andre Berkbigler, teacher, Shoreline High School

October 1, 1994

Mr. Berkbigler attended Segan’s very first slide class presentation, at Covenant House – Campus Christian Ministry, by the UW campus, April 11, 1994. The presentation, titled ‘Holocaust Education through Art,’ interwove selected art by Israel Bernbaum from “My Brother’s Keeper” and Segan’s ‘Under the Wings of G-d*’ series drawings

[*in 2013 the series name was shortened to Under the Wings]

(Transcribed from a hand-written card sent by snail-mail):

“You and your work are an inspiration to me. Thank you for inviting us to your opening. Your tribute to the Warsaw ghetto and to those who tragically suffered has given people a powerful way to think about the value in each person.

You have given me a way to present the inhumanity of the experience in a way that does not demean the victim. I feel that a lot of educators and artists continue the dehumanization of the victims of Nazi rule in Europe.

In addition to giving back a specific victim’s individuality, you also give them dignity, while not denying now they died. Too often educators and artists don’t realize the dehumanizing effect of emphasizing the number of people killed.

As an artist you have always been a positive influence on me, and I carry a piece of your thoughts in the classroom with me every day. You have influenced me, and I hope to be a positive influence on my students. Such is the impact of good men like yourself!” – Andy Berkbigler

Excerpt from a letter by Josh Berkenwald*, Jewish studies teacher

Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Synagogue, Mercer Island, Washington, February 11, 1999 [*Now rabbi at Congregation Sinai, San Jose, California].

The slide class presentation was to an 8th grade class (ages 13-14)

“Viewing the artwork that you’ve created side-by-side with the pictures which inspired you magnifies the viewers sense that these are real images, and helps dispel the notion of  “six million” as just a number….at the same time, your use of wings memorializes the victims as individuals and lends a mystical quality to them – as in the trolley car. Certainly a very real, day-to-day kind of image: but one that, with wings, becomes somewhat surreal. Is it just a trolley car or is it full of passengers? What happened to it/ them?  Did they die? Are they going to heaven, or do the wings mean something else? I liked that you did not explain your use of wings to the students, leaving it up to them to discover their own personal meaning.”

Letter from Ann Levine, teacher of “at-risk” students

Middle College High School (located at Seattle Central Community College) - Seattle Public Schools District, June 3, 1998

“I am writing on behalf of Seattle Artist and Lecturer, Akiva Segan. I met Mr. Segan at the time his series “Under the Wings of G-D” was on display at Seattle Central Community College. I was immediately moved by the awesome imagery depicted in his paintings and felt that a presentation could really be of benefit to my Middle College students, who have had limited exposure to the topic of the Holocaust.

Many of my teenage students are also survivors themselves – some who have left behind war-torn countries, others, battling drug and alcohol addiction. Mr. Segan generously agreed to come to our class and present his slides.

It was apparent that Mr. Segan’s presentation was a valuable learning experience for my students. I felt that they were especially engaged because many have been the subjects of racism and hatred and consequently, were able to relate to the subject.

Since many, also, have limited English proficiency, they were able to understand the subject though imagery instead of words. Of equal importance, they were drawn to Mr. Segan’s warm and non-threatening personality. I also felt that the presentation was important because it lent itself to a forum of rich discussion about the Holocaust as well as difficult situations the students are faced with in their own lives. Many of my reserved students felt more at east expressing themselves verbally and through journal entries.

We were most fortunate to have Mr. Segan as a guest lecturer in our class and hope that he will return in the future.”

Letter from Pastor Jack Olive*, Mercer Island United Methodist Church

Mercer Island, Washington, Oct. 10, 1997

“Recently, our congregation had the privilege of hanging several pieces from Akiva Segan’s “Under the Wings of G-D” collection in the narthex of our sanctuary. Akiva’s art was much appreciated and provoked much conversation.

Interacting with those lovely faces from the Warsaw Ghetto added such a dimension to our experience that it was possible to engage even young children in conversation about the Holocaust. We found that children were able to relate to real human beings who had suffered rather than to be so overwhelmed by the brutality of the events that conversation was impossible.

During the course of the show, Akiva also provided a slide lecture and conversation about his work, his art and his understanding of the Holocaust.

 We highly recommend Akiva and his art. Those who invite Akiva will discover a new dimension to Holocaust education, one that makes it possible to engage the whole community in conversation, study and prayer.”

Sincerely, Jack Olive, Pastor

[*Sadly, pastor Jack passed on, age 62, in 2012. For many years he had pursued interfaith dialogue; May His Memory be Blessed] A newspaper obituary.

Letter from Bruce Schauer, Fairwood Regional Library Manager

King County Library System, Washington state, Dec. 20, 1998

“We want to thank you for your stunning display of Holocaust inspired drawings. This kind of display was very important for the Fairwood community to see since we don’t have any other places to view artwork of such importance. Many of our users let us know how much they appreciated the opportunity to view your work, the artifacts and the slide show presentation on My Brother’s Keeper and Under the Wings of G-D. Thank you for your cooperation in bringing your work to the Fairwood Library.”

Letter from Mrs. Gigi Yellen-Kohn, Instructor, Community High School for Jewish Studies

Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, February 23, 2000

The  class saw a slide class on Bernbaum and Segan art.

“I want to thank you for opening my students’ eyes in so many ways with your exciting presentation of art and history. You were invited to spend an hour with my class, in a course called “Art and Memory,” at the Community High School for Jewish Studies. The course, as you know, gave these 15 students the opportunity to look at many different examples of memorial art inspired by historical events, especially the Holocaust, and culminated in their own designs for memorial art of some kind. Your “hour” was in fact shortened, for which I apologize, but I want you to know that you made a big impact, nevertheless.

Your lively commentary and extensive collection of slides made it possible for this group of Jewist teens to learn in depth about a period most of them still know about, unfortunately, only in a general way.  The combination of historical photographs and art brought them what they needed, which was a grounding in fact and a sense of shared language.

You demonstrated a commitment to the importance of transmitting not only facts about the Holocaust, but also the inner truths and the implications for us, who live in its aftermath. By featuring not only your own fine work but also the very different art of survivor Israel Bernbaum, you made it clear that, charismatic as you may be, you were not the star of the show. The issues that touch us all were the real headliners.

 At our last class, this past weekend, students reflected on the various guest speakers who had come to them. Yours was talked about as a very exciting evening, one that made people think and keep thinking.

I look forward to following the progress of your important career, and send my thanks again to you. I know it was hard to condense your ambitious program into our little time slot, but I’m glad you did.”

Letter from Victoria Carver, Language Arts teacher, Nathan Hale High School

Seattle, July 1, 1997

“I am writing a letter of support for Kenneth Akiva Segan. Mr. Segan came into my classroom last June as part of an historical fiction unit I was doing with my 9th grade class. At that time we were studying the films and literature of the Holocaust and Mr Segan presented both his own and other artist’s works – that of Israel Bernbaum’s – dealing with that theme. 

Everything about his presentation – from his own art work, to the lecture/discussion that went along with it – was professional, inspirational, and extremely educational.

What distinguished Mr Segan’s presentation from other presentations on the Holocaust was he emphasis on artistic interpretation of the tragedy. Much of the study of the horrors of the Nazi regime is so intense, it tends to leave the students feeling numb and helpless, unless taught with the right balance and sensitivity.

 Although the artwork that was shown in my classes never shied away from from the gruesome reality of the Holocaust,  through the artist’s natural tendency for image and metaphor, my students were able to explore an extremely difficult topic in  a way that was deeply affecting, but never threatening.

My only regret was that Mr. Segan’s residency was so brief. It would have been fascinating to explore the connections between his moving imagery, the artist’s approach to an historical tragedy, and the relevance of this connection.

In short (his work), both on on educational level, and on artistic merit, is of the highest quality.
I recommend his work without reservation and with the greatest enthusiasm.”

Letter from Janice E. Campbell, teacher, Denny Middle School

Seattle, May 1997

“Akiva Segan came to our school on May 14, 1997 and gave his presentation of Holocaust Education Thru Art to 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. With his slides that showed some of the horrors of the Holocaust, the students were able to see that real people were the victims, especially children.

When Mr. Segan shared with the group “the people in these slides were people like you and me, and they were either tortured or killed,” the response of the students was quite impressive. In his presentation, Mr. Segan also projected a number of Israel Bernbaum’s paintings, including “The Warsaw Ghetto Streets” and “On Both Sides of the Ghetto Wall.” Mr. Bernbaum’s ability to portray ghetto life was profound.

I learned about Mr. Segan from a student in my last year’s class who was awakened to the horrors of the Holocaust when we studied Anne Frank. I am sure there will be a lasting impression because of Mr. Segan’s slides and the way he brought out certain emotions during the lecture. I highly recommend his presentation as one way of increasing and highlighting any lesson on the Holocaust.

Letter from Rev. Peter Ilgenfritz, University Congregational Church – United Church of Christ

Seattle, April 28, 1996

“I wanted to express my deep appreciation for the display of a portion of your “Under the Wings of G-d” exhibit this winter at our church. Your artwork helped to bring our community’s attention to the Holocaust in some new and profound ways.

It opened up dialogue and discussion in our community. Such dialogue can continue to heal the wounds that still plague us between the Christian and Jewish religious communities. Such dialogue can be a pathway to tolerance and understanding and even love.

I hope that your artwork is displayed in other religious communities as well as a way to bring about conversation, dialogue and healing. I know that others will be moved as we have been moved.”

Letter from Ken Weinberg, Executive Director*, Jewish Family Service

Seattle, February 15, 1999
[*He retired in 2013 after 35 years at JFS. He did great work the community]

“I want to thank you for your thought provoking and educational presentation to the JFS Staff on “Under the Wings of G-d: Drawings on the Holcoaust in Europe, 1939-45” held on Feb. 11, 1999.

So often when learning about the Holocaust, this awful event overwhelms us emotionally.

It is also a piece of history that we have seen in old newsreels and TV specials. How then can we make the Holocaust accessible and at least comprehensible?

I believe your presentation does just that. It provides another way to look at the Holocaust and the very faces of those who perished. It is a way to remember, memorialize, and to learn.

I know I speak on behalf of JFS staff when I thank you for an important contribution to our professional growth and to our growth as human beings.”

Gail M. Aita, Teacher, Sequoia Junior High School, Kent School District, June 10, 1999

On behalf of all my students I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your presentation of “Under the Wings of G-d” and “My Brother’s Keeper” at the Kent Public Library last April. All of the students expressed their opinions in class and shared their feelings and insights with everyone who did not attend. They all stated that their understanding of the Holocaust was increased, and that having visual interpretation presented to them stamped pictures that would never go away into their minds.

Many of the students have expressed that they will continue to study about the Holocaust and that hopefully the lessons that they learn will help them not to be prejudiced.

The students had to write a paper that what they learned and how they felt about your presentation. I have included copies of some of those papers for you to have and share with whomever you like. If you are ever so inclined to share your presentation and art with junior high students in a school setting, we at Sequoia Junior High would feet it a privilege to have you come and share with us.

On a personal note, looking at your artwork, I can’t help but be reminded of the Bible verse in Exodus 19:4, “You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle’s wings and brought you onto myself.” I pray that the victims of the Holocaust were truly brought into God’s presence and are now at peace.”

P.S. by A. K. Segan on July 17, 2019:  In 2000 I was invited to guest present at Sequoia Jr High, where I presented five consecutive slide class presentations, a record for me for one day that still stands.

When Mrs. Aita spoke at the opening reception at the April 2013 exhibit of Under the Wings & Sight-seeing with Dignity art series works at Seattle Central College, she mentioned that.

A video clip of her remarks at the exhibit reception:

Cynthia Chan Imanaka, Sociology Professor, Seattle Central Community College, May 19, 1998

It is a pleasure to write a letter of support for A.K. Segan and the tremendous work he has done in our national consciousness about the Holocaust. Mr. Segan provided my Sociology of Living, Death and Dying students with a private showing and discussion on his exhibit, “Under the Wings of G-d: Drawings on the Holocaust in Europe, 1939-45.” In addition to the aforementioned, Mr. Segan graciously attended the class to further enlighten the students on the Holocaust by presenting a slide discussion on “My Brother’s Keeper,” the works of late Holocaust survivor Israel Bernbaum.

On both occasions, Mr. Segan was well received by the students. Mr. Segan’s drawings and presentation provide a format to examine and discuss the Holocaust. He actively engaged the class in a discussion on the Holocaust and made them emotionally and intellectually address the human suffering experienced during this heinous time in world history. His haunting winged paintings of murdered Jewish children, women and men gave voice, and in turn honored the millions of Jews who died.

Mr. Segan’s slide lecture is an invaluable contribution to our knowledge regarding the Holocaust. His works provide another medium by which we can study the atrocities of the Holocaust and say that we will never let it happen again.

Miriam Driss, Children’s Librarian, Kent Regional Library, King County Library System,
July 28, 1999

I want to thank you for your presentation of “Under the Wings of G-d” and “My Brother’s Keeper” a the Kent Regional Library. I know that teaching Young Adults about the Holocaust and helping them to understand it’s meaning and lessons in contemporary society is a daunting task. But if anyone can do it, you can.

Your introduction provided enough background so that they could being to understand some of the imagery in Israel Bernbaum’s paintings and in your portraits. Presenting this difficult topic through art is a wonderful way to teach history and art, without overwhelming the students with graphic violent depictions. Yet, viewing the paintings left the students with an awareness of the destruction done to European Jewry and it’s culture.

I especially appreciated the thought provoking questions you asked about Bernbaum’s work and your own. Students were challenged by your presentation, and I’m sure continued thinking about it long after it’s conclusion.

I enjoyed reading the essays you e-emailed me*. Clearly, they put a lot of thought, effort and heart into their writing, and the inspiration resulted from your talented presentation.

[*She refers to essays written by students of Sequoia Junior High, Kent School District, which were sent to Segan by Gail Aita; she the testimonial letter by Mrs. Aita, above]

Rabbi Jonathan L. Singer, Temple Beth Am;  Timmie Faghin, Chairman, Temple Beth Am Art Committee, Seattle, August 27, 1997

During the spring of 1997, we exhibited the work of Akiva Kenneth Segan as part of our Yom Hashoah commemoration. It was a beautiful show in terms of content, technique and originality. Mr. Segan’s work is poignant and thought-provoking. Our Committee received many compliments, and a number of congregants stated it was the best art show we had exhibited to date.

In addition to the gallery show, Mr. Segan graciously offered to present a slide show to the seventh through ninth grade students in our religious school detailing the thought processes and techniques which he used in creating his work. This too was well received by students and their teachers.

We were very pleased to have an opportunity to exhibit Mr. Segan’s work, we look forward to exhibiting his work again, and we highly recommend him to other institutions.