WRHS Opens Show of Women Religious Portraits by Photographer Herb Ascherman

Thu 10/19 @ 6:30PM

This year, the  Western Reserve Historical Society will be hosting a series of programs titled “FaithInFocusCLE: History, the Arts, and Engaging Dialogues about Religious Diversity.” It will feature exhibitions, book discussions, speakers, and more, curated by Dr. Regennia N. Williams, WRHS’s Distinguished Scholar of African American History and Culture, with assistant curator David Patrick Ryan.

It kicks off this week on Thursday October 19 with the opening reception for a photo show called Sisters: Portraits of Women Religious from St. Adalbert/Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church and School and St. Agnes/Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church, featuring recent work by northeast Ohio fine-art portrait photographer Herbert Ascherman Jr.  He’s well known for his series of studies of different groups of individuals.  Ascherman will present an illustrated talk titled “Religious Cleveland: A Photo Documentary.”  It will include photographs hat were part of Images from the Heart: A Bicentennial Celebration of Cleveland and Its People. 

Jazz pianist Theron Brown and his trio will play at the opening reception. Get tickets here. The Ascherman exhibition will be on view through December.

Faith in Focus

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106

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