Cincinnati Skirball Museum

03/29/2026

12/02/2025

This evening's lecture, Symbol, Beauty, and Function in The Collars Of RBG, with Abby Schwartz, has been CANCELLED due to current and potential weather conditions. Apologies for any inconvenience.

The RBG Exhibit will run through February 9, 2026 and we invite you to visit during our normal open hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, Sundays 1:00 - 4:00 pm.

06/17/2025

05/21/2025

In this month’s Object of the Month, soon-to-be Rabbi Rachael Houser, takes us on a tour of artist Archie Rand’s, The Seventeen Iron Flock, a mural series now on view at Hebrew Union College’s Skirball Museum in Cincinnati. Each portrait in this exhibition reimagines Jewish heroines through bold color, layered symbolism, and pop-art inspiration—inviting viewers to uncover the hidden stories and midrashic details woven into every canvas.

Get an in-depth look as Rachael shows us the depiction of Asenath, wife of Joseph, caught mid-flight on horseback, fleeing the pyramids of her past to embrace a new future grounded in shared faith and love.

Don’t miss your chance to explore this tribute to women of strength and spirit, on display through June 30 at Cincinnati Skirball Museum.

04/17/2025

Please join us for our upcoming Lunch and Learn:

Curatorial Perspectives on Archie Rand's "The Seventeen: Iron Flock" with Samantha Baskind, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University.

Skirball Museum: Hebrew Union College
3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati
Tuesday, May 20th 1:00 pm

RSVP: https://huc.edu/event/skirball-museum-curatorial-perspectives-on-archie-rands-the-seventeen-iron-flock/

04/08/2025

Miriam Cup
Ann Sperry (NY 1950-2008 NY)
USA, 1997
Welded and painted steel, h. 11 x w. 6 x d 7 in.
Cincinnati Skirball Museum, museum purchase with funds provided by Skirball Museum docents, 18.75

The holiday of Passover tells the tale of the Israelites’ journey from enslavement and bo***ge in the land of Egypt to liberation across the Sea of Reeds and into the wilderness. The story behind the holiday is told over the course of a Passover Seder, which means ‘order.’ The ordered meal uses symbolic foods and dishes to represent aspects of the Exodus narrative.

One semi-recent addition to the Passover Seder table is a cup for the prophetess Miriam. While the prophet Elijah has long had a cup set aside for him, in the hopes that he will attend the Seder with news that the peaceful messianic age as begun, Miriam only started to get her own cup at the table in the 1980s. Her cup is filled with water to represent the midrash that Miriam’s presence among the Israelites ensured that they had water wherever they traveled, and that her death precipitated the lack of water the Israelites faced in Kadesh.

This Miriam’s cup, designed and created by Ann Sperry, evokes the springtime. The bowl of the cup could almost be a lily pad, collecting water from the rain, and the stem is vine- or root-like, culminating in a bud that hovers near the lip of the bowl. Sperry’s sculptures can be seen in Seattle, Aspen, and Boston.

This post was written by Rachael Houser, a fifth-year rabbinical student at HUC-JIR Cincinnati.

03/31/2025

Our exhibit opening reception of "The Seventeen: Iron Flock" was lovely. We were captivated listening to the artist himself, Archie Rand! Enjoy a few of the photos from the evening.

The exhibit will be on view at the Skirball Museum through June 30th. Sundays 1:00 - 4:00p, Tuesday & Thursday s 11:00a - 3:00p.

More information: [email protected] or 513-487-3231.

03/25/2025

It's not too late to RSVP for this Thursday's Skirball exhibit opening!

Don't miss the opportunity to hear from the artist himself, Archie Rand, at the opening reception on Thursday, March 27th 5:30pm

RSVP: https://huc.edu/event/archie-rands-the-seventeen-iron-flock/

The Skirball Museum is proud to announce the exhibit opening reception of: ARCHIE RAND'S "The Seventeen: Iron Flock" Thursday, March 27, 2025 5:30pm

RSVP: https://huc.edu/event/archie-rands-the-seventeen-iron-flock/

03/04/2025

Don't miss the opportunity to hear from the artist himself, Archie Rand, at the opening reception on Thursday, March 27th 5:30pm

RSVP: https://huc.edu/event/archie-rands-the-seventeen-iron-flock/

The Skirball Museum is proud to announce the exhibit opening reception of: ARCHIE RAND'S "The Seventeen: Iron Flock" Thursday, March 27, 2025 5:30pm

RSVP: https://huc.edu/event/archie-rands-the-seventeen-iron-flock/

02/13/2025

Only 4 more opportunities to see this wonderful exhibit of Israel through the lens of photographer, Ralph Gibson. "Sacred Land" will be open through February 23rd. questions or inquiries 513-487-3231 or [email protected].

02/06/2025

The Skirball Museum is proud to announce the exhibit opening reception of: ARCHIE RAND'S "The Seventeen: Iron Flock" Thursday, March 27, 2025 5:30pm

RSVP: https://huc.edu/event/archie-rands-the-seventeen-iron-flock/