IHE Lunch and Learn | Aug. 15

Though Cyd Gottlieb never personally met her Holocaust Survivor grandparents, as a child, she gained a deep understanding of their respective journeys through various ghettos, concentration camps, displaced persons camps, and countries from a box of documents kept on the top shelf of a closet. Inside, she found authentic primary documents of different paper types, fonts, chronological stamps, seals, and languages. By following patterns and details, she figured out how to understand what words could not describe.

In 2023, with this trove of information, Cyd completed 3GNY’s WEDU speaker training course to better learn how to distill her family narrative and contribute to public Holocaust education. As a visual artist, Cyd also integrates storytelling into her work.

In 2025, she will show with the Burkholder Project (Lincoln, NE), and her forthcoming solo exhibition will explore intimate stories of starting over – diving into ideas of ownership, survival, and refugee history within a contemporary context.

Mimicking her own method of discovery, Cyd plans to present combinations of collected materials with drawn and painted applications to create artworks that usher along a broad range of multimedia play.

Hear more about how Cyd intertwines factual narrative with her own expressive output on Aug. 15th through the IHE’s 3rd Thursday Lunch and Learn Program.