Held on October 5, 2016
Dr. Cary Lane, KHC Curator-in-Residence and Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, tells the story of Ben Peres and his journey through the Holocaust to a new life in New York.
The Kupferberg Holocaust Center's (KHC) original exhibition, The Jacket From Dachau: One Survivor's Search for Justice, Identity and Home is curated by Dr. Cary Lane, Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College and the 2016-17 Curator-in-Residence at the KHC. Dr. Lane received his M.F.A. in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Postsecondary and Adult Education from Capella University in 2015.
One of Dr. Lane’s main research interests is examining how image-based instruction affects learning at the postsecondary level. He has engaged in several service-learning and pedagogical research projects that have examined pedagogical approaches to visual literacy, including his 2014-15 NEH Challenge Grant and KHC Colloquia Series, Testimony across the Disciplines: Students Respond to Genocide through Culture and Art.
Dr. Lane has also curated and contributed to several professional art exhibits, including the 2009 exhibition, Visualizing the Unknown: Forensic Art in the President’s Art Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and as artist-in-residence for the 2010 exhibit, Rivane Neuenschwander: True Love at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.