from the "Digital Fountain" newsletter of Judson Church – Faces in the Crowd

Faces in the Crowd is a mural painted by Nina Talbot that was created in 1990 and installed in the lobby of The Lincoln Plaza Cinemas until the theatre closed January 31, 2018. Talbot was inspired by the multiplicity of people lining up to see films in the historic theatre, which was in operation for thirty-six years. Faces in the Crowd is dedicated to the memory of Nina’s late father Daniel Talbot, who was the operator of the Lincoln Plaza.

The mural is now in it’s new home at The Judson Church.

Nina Talbot is a painter whose work has been seen in numerous museums locally and internationally. Her work is organized into series that document the lives of people from the neighborhood and across the globe.

Faces in the Crowd mural, in its original location on last day of the Lincoln Plaza. Photograph courtesy of Maria Dominguez.

Coverage of Talbot's Faces of Dynów exhibition at Zamosc Synagogue December 2016 - January 2017
The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage 2016 annual report, pgs. 29-30.

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Faces of Dynów: Portraits and Stories from an Ancestral Town in Galicia
Artist/genealogy talk at the Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island

Sunday, Dec. 10, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Mid-Island Y-JCC
45 Manetto Hill Road
Plainview
Long Island, NY 11803

Artist Nina Talbot’s genealogical research led to the creation of a painting series, Faces of Dynów, depicting the lives of people from that Polish town from the 1920s through the present day. A book, also titled Faces of Dynów, was published in conjunction with the exhibit, which has been shown in Kraków, Zamosc, and Dynów, Poland. In addition to doing online research, Nina visited archives in Israel, Poland, and New York and interviewed descendants of her Neger and Spinrad families in the U.S. and abroad. She will discuss both her research and her art work in a talk illustrated with images, archival records, photographs, and audio clips of some of the interviews she conducted.

Day of Holocaust Remembrance

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Talbot's exhibits covered in the December issue of The Galitzianer, The Quarterly Research Journal of Gesher Galicia

Talbot's Faces of Dynów series featured in the Day of Holocaust Remembrance in the Podkarpackie region of Poland by The Association for the Promotion and Development of the Dynowskie - Society of Friends of the Earth Dynowski

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Faces of Dynów exhibit in Kraków covered in November issue of Dynów newspaper Dynowinka, with article by history professor Maciej Jurasiński

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Faces of Dynów
(Twarze Dynowa)

Synagogue Center of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage
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14 Pereca St.
22-400 Zamosc, Poland
 
December 1, 2016 - January 5, 2017

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Local news websites annoucements:
http://www.kurierzamojski.pl/wiadomosci/twarze-dynowa-wystawa-niny-talbot-w-centrum-synagoga

http://roztocze.net/twarze-dynowa-w-synagodze/

http://www.dziennikwschodni.pl/co-gdzie-kiedy/wystawy/wernisaz-wystawy-twarze-dynowa-niny-talbot-w-zamosciu,n,1000190414.html

Local radio reportage (photos and audio) :
http://www.radiozamosc.pl/wiadomosci/1526,twarze-dynowa

Zamosc Tourist Information website:
http://zci.zamosc.pl/news/407/wystawa-obrazow-niny-talbot-quottwarze-dynowaquot.html

3rd High School website:
http://www.lo3zamosc.info/826-spotkanie-z-pania-nina-talbot

Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Le
Louisiana National Guard
Oil/linen, 48" x 42" 2016

Veterans paintings travel to:

Louisiana National Guard Museum
Jackson Barracks
6400 Saint Claude Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70117-1456
www.geauxguardmuseums.com

Public Reception: Friday, Nov. 11, 2016
Exhibition dates : Nov. 11, 2016 - Nov. 15, 2017

Anti-Heroin Chic article
Interview with artist Nina Talbot
8/2/16

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The Galitzianer,
The Quarterly Research Journal of Gesher Galicia,
March 2016 issue,
FACES OF DYNÓW article, pages 5-9.

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www.geshergalicia.org

OUR WOMEN VETERANS – By Nina Talbot
Women In Military Service of America Memorial
at Arlington, VA

March 16, 2016 - March 16, 2017 extended to mid-April 2017
Reception: Friday, March 20, 2016  11am-1pm
Hours of Museum: Daily, 8am-5pm
www.womensmemorial.org
› U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs blog

In her new series of paintings entitled Our Women Veterans, artist Nina Talbot presents twelve portraits of American women Veterans, superimposed on images of their private lives, and of their rarely told personal stories. By using translucent layers of paint, the artist portrays the women’s’ faces on a background of their memories from their lifetime - moments from their lives before service, events they experienced in life in the military, and life after deployment. The artist’s work is driven by her intimate conversations with the Veterans. Collaborator Sophie Rand wrote the stories based on Talbot’s interviews with the Veterans.

The words of the women are placed in the writings hanging next to the paintings. Joan A. Furey, for example, a nurse who served in Vietnam, stated, “You’re aware of the awful price that’s being paid,” a message that serves as a wake-up call for the civilian viewer of the image, who may have little appreciation of the depth of sacrifice of the Veteran.

Through stories from a wide variety of subjects the viewer is transported to scenes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba, Somalia and Vietnam and our military bases within the United States. In these paintings we see how the women Veterans’ identities are shaped and defined by their military experiences. Sarah Mess, for example, a Veteran of Mogadishu, tells of her life since her service in Somalia-“You can’t unknow what you know.” This series of paintings also tells us that to understand women in military service, we must understand the experiences of the individual women who served. JoAnn Session, a U.S. stateside Veteran passionately stated, I wanted the challenge. I wanted to train, spy, sniper, jump out of planes.

Our Women Veterans is a “visual oral history”, and it is an appreciation, recognition, and communication of the lives of our women Veterans. The paintings work to bridge the gap between civilian and military life, so that the public can appreciate Veterans’ struggles - in particular women Veterans’ struggles - and give proper recognition. Brigadier General Wilma Vaught states, “It’s just a history that needs to be recorded and told. For many decades it wasn’t being recorded, the memorabilia wasn’t being collected, and now it is. And it’ll be here hopefully for all time.” The paintings and stories convey the pressing need for a civilian understanding of the realities and experiences of Veterans from current and past generations.

Wilma Vaught
(Ret.) U.S. Air Force, Brigadier-General

Zenobia Marion
Gulf War, U.S. Army, Patriot Missile Loader
82nd Division Airborne