On Dec. 5, art lovers flocked to the VIP lounge of Art Miami for the StandWithUs x Art Miami event, held during Art Basel.
The event featured two Israel artists, Orit Fuchs and Yigal Ozeri, along with Shai Zemack, who owns the Zemack Contemporary Art gallery in Tel Aviv. The three engaged in a panel moderated by art concierge, Estelle Ohayon, that focused on how their art and work has been marginalized since Oct. 7, 2023.
StandWithUs Southeast partnered with Ariel Penzer Milgroom, founder of Art World for Israel (AWI) for the event. The goal was to highlight the importance of supporting Jewish and Israeli art around the world — an idea that stemmed from university students.
“The impetus for working with art and using it as a language to tell the positive story of Israel, came from the Southeast campus StandWithUs Emerson Fellows,” said Sara Gold Rafel, executive director of StandWithUs Southeast. “Students from numerous universities exhibit artwork on their campuses to demonstrate that art can be used as a powerful educational tool about Israel, to combat antisemitism and one that unites people.”