Opening reception: Hope Becoming Home / Winter Season Exhibition

Event Description

Jewish Museum of Florida FIU announces two new exhibitions, opening November 19, 2025. Hope Becoming Home includes work by a diverse group of women artists in Miami who explore the flows and traces of memory, place, and identity, using mediums ranging from textiles to artificial intelligence to found objects and natural materials. Though hailing from diverse geographies, the artists all navigate their Jewish heritages in relationship to other aspects of their identities, reflecting a continuum of diverse but shared experiences and artistic vocabularies.

Organized by Jaimie Luria (PhD), the exhibition includes Dahlia Dreszer, a Panamanian artist who uses photography and generative AI to create lushly collaged still-lifes that reflect her family history and Indigenous practices in Panama—a clone of herself will also provide tours of her work. Mexican artist Karla Kantorovich, who explores the physicality of memory and natural cycles of renewal, will present archival family photos printed onto tree leaves and handmade paper.

Amy Gelb, an American and Israeli artist who focuses on intergenerational narratives of women, will present a series of haunting works that integrate textiles and landscape photography. Born in Havana, Cuba, Patricia San Pedro’s sculptural, photographic works combine images of doorways from around the world—from Cusco to Kauai, Chile to North Carolina—creating portals between places, their histories, and the artist’s psychological and emotional states.

Also opening at JMOF is the Winter Season Exhibition, curated by museum director Susan Gladstone and Jaimie Luria. This show brings together four artists whose work addresses justice, celebrations of resilience, and the devotional aspects of artmaking. Elinor Carucci’s photographic series portraying the collars of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be on display, as will Carol Fryd’s vibrant, abstract portraiture created using both analog and digital tools. The exhibition will also include Nancy Engels’ quietly meditative, stoic portraits of family members and women, and work by Pedro Jermaine, who will be showing two paintings that bring into conversation the 1923 racially motivated massacre in Rosewood, Florida, and the Holocaust.

Hope Becoming Home and the Winter Season Exhibition will run through March 31, 2026.

For ADA accommodation, please contact FIU’s Office of Civil Rights Compliance and Accessibility at 305-348-2785 or [email protected].