America @250 meets Israel @78: Michal Nachmany’s exhibition at the UJA-NY brings together mixed-media and collage art that weaves together the visual languages of Israeli and American life. It is a deeply personal dialogue between two homelands. Israeli motifs meet the iconography of American possibility: the open road, the beauty of everyday life and culture. These are two worlds in conversation, each illuminating the other.
Together they ask: What does it mean to belong to a place? What makes a nation a miracle? What does freedom feel like from the inside?
Opening Reception: May 12, 2026, 6:30–8:30 pm
Register by May 5 by emailing Info@MichalNachmanyArt.com
Note Entry without RSVP (UJA security requirements).
UJA Headquarters, 130 East 59 St., 7th floor, NYC
Born in Jerusalem, Michal Nachmany draws deep inspiration from the city’s layered history and vibrant tapestry of cultures; the city’s people, architecture, textures, colors, and sounds are woven into the fabric of her work, which often explores how the past informs and shapes the present.
https://www.michalnachmanyart.com
From Michal’s introduction:
Exactly 10 years ago, here at the UJA, my art exhibit explored the miraculous journey from Herzl’s 1897 vision standing on a balcony, to the establishment of the new state in 1948. I titled that show, “Beyond the Balcony.” Because, “If you will it, it is no dream.” Short video of the show HERE
Last year, in Kraków, I created a series of new art on kites, “Kites of Hope and Renewal.” …Hopeful yet fragile, lifted by unseen winds, held aloft by courage, resilience, and optimism, with each kite anchored by a Hebrew word of Hope. I end this show with some of these kites! Video HERE
250 years ago, on these shores, another story began – of courage, of hope, of resilience.
Of strangers arriving, under open skies, daring to begin again – from ‘sea to shining sea.’
Courage. Hope. Resilience. A new life in a new land.
Sound familiar?
It is the story of my father, arriving in Eretz Israel in 1934.
It is the story of your parents, your grandparents –
here, and there.
IT IS OUR STORY.
And so, this exhibition – celebrating America at 250, Israel at 78 –
carries a simple truth:
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
· Because Israel is a miracle.
· And America is a miracle.
In their founding – and in their becoming.
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· History teaches us courage.
· Art gives us hope.
Courage and hope lift us.
