Location: UCLA Hillel, 574 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024

After a brief introduction to the Bauhaus-inspired pedagogy of the remarkable artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Dr. Wix remembers this devoted teacher through the words of eleven survivors who studied art with her in the Terezín concentration camp in 1943 and 1944. The words of the survivors and the images made when they were children comprise the excerpts that tell the stories of the students’ memories of their experiences with this exceptional art teacher in Terezin. Based on recent interviews the excerpts are grounded in Dr. Wix’s research into memory as sited; the portraiture encounter; and the life lessons that the young art students took from their teacher, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. The evening includes a short musical component featuring the Milken Community School Kol Echad Concert Choir and UCLA student, Danielle Kathleen Bayne, co-sponsored by the Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA.
 
Dr. Linney Wix, Ph.D., is a Professor of Art Education in the Educational Specialties Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2000, she began investigating the art and pedagogy of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis who adapted the Bauhaus Basic Course to teach creative art classes in the Terezín concentration camp from 1942- 44. In 2011, Dr. Wix guest-curated the exhibition Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and Her Terezín Students at the University of New Mexico Art Museum and authored a book by the same title (UNM Press, 2010). In 2013, as a Fulbright Scholar in Prague, Dr. Wix continued her research focusing on art and memory in the context of the art classes in Terezín, through interviews with the surviving child artists.

Co-sponsored by the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Department of Marital and Family Therapy at Loyola Marymount University, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA and the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.