Tuesday Treasures

Katya Oicherman is a curator, researcher, artist and educator focusing on Jewish material culture, as well as historical and contemporary textiles. She holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) with a thesis on 19th century German Jewish Torah binders. Oicherman is the Director of Mishkan Or Museum of Jewish Cultures in Beachwood, OH.  Before joining Mishkan Or, she was a resident artist-curator at the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the chair of the Textile Design Department at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (Israel). She is the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (New York), the Pasold Fund in textile history (UK), the Minnesota Historical Society, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (New York) and Winterthur Museum (DE) among others.