Waltuch Gallery
The Waltuch Art Gallery infuses Jewish art and/or works by Jewish artists into our shared cultural experiences. The exhibits are designed to ignite imagination and encourage people to connect the visual arts with philosophical and spiritual concepts through a creative Jewish lens.
The Waltuch Gallery exhibits rotate monthly, and feature the work of painters, photographers, digital artists and other creative designers.
Exhibits are free and open to the community, and most work is typically for sale. A portion of the proceeds support programming efforts at the JCC.
Outdoor gallery exhibits are displayed throughout the Kaplen JCC Campus and indoor gallery exhibits are on the second floor of the main JCC building.
Art of Hope and Renewal
Artwork by Michal Nachmany
A central theme of Nachmany’s work is that “every person and every object has a journey.” Her work focuses on the ways personal and cultural journeys are captured in memories and objects, with work that reimagines and repurposes found objects in daily life. As an immigrant from Israel to New York, she explores the journeys of people and their keepsakes from a personal perspective. She uses collage as a medium to create new stories about the memories and histories evoked by the objects she uses in her work.
The mixture of colors, sounds, and smells from the streets and the markets of Jerusalem shaped Nachman’s Awareness of the past as a foundation of the present. Today, she creates pieces with many layers, textures, and techniques, such as collaging, printmaking, acrylic painting, and drawing. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York City and nearby, and internationally in Taiwan and in Poland. Her recent show, Kites of Hope and Renewal, was on display in June 2025 in the JCC of Krakow, Poland. Nachmany created artworks commissioned by Columbia University, Ben Gurion University, and others. She also teaches college workshops.
SHOWING: SEPT 15-OCTOBER 30
GALLERY RECEPTION: TBD