Glasgow Women’s Library is currently acting as occasional host to three interns who are working together with the Maclaurin Gallery and with the niece of artist Hannah Frank to plan a festival of Jewish arts and culture in Ayr which will take place this summer.
Cultural Connections, which runs from 26 July to 22 September, will be held at the Maclaurin Gallery and Rozelle House, Ayr. Paintings, drawings and sculpture by Josef Herman, Benno Schotz (Hannah Frank’s teacher at the Glasgow School of Art) and Hannah Frank herself will be on show alongside an exhibition of photographs by Judah Passow entitled Scots Jews: Identity, Belonging and the Future.
A programme of related cultural activities – music, dance, film, and art-related – will accompany the exhibition: see website www.themaclaurin.org.uk and www.hannahfrank.org.uk for further details.
Glasgow Women’s Library has a very special association with Hannah Frank, who died at the age of 100 in 2008. She left many of her much-loved books to the library, her family donated a set of framed prints to the GWL, her distinctive black and white cards are on sale in the main library area, and her prints are on sale as part of our relaunched webshop.
Angela Short, Maria Simou, and Marzanna Antoniak’s internships are funded by the Scottish Government through “Adopt an Intern”.
