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• Moving Targets · 2014

​Moving Targets
Ann T. Rosenthal and Steffi Domike
with Ruth Fauman-Fichman

Moving Targets parallels the plight of the passenger pigeon with that of the artists’ maternal lineage, piecing together the fragmented stories and forced migrations of both pigeons and Jews. While texts, including Joel Greenberg’s A Feathered River Across the Sky (2014), provided a basis for understanding the pigeons, there was no comparable source about the artists’ own families. Thus, Domike and Rosenthal sought the help of Dr. Ruth Fauman-Fichman, who researched their family histories within the Jewish Ukrainian diaspora: life in the Pale of Settlement, including pogroms and persecution, and their flight and relocation to North America. Just as the artists have sought clues to make sense of these concurrent narratives, this exhibition prompts visitors to discover where these two worlds meet, and why some communities, whether human or animal, are deemed expendable.

Read more about Moving Targets here.

Steffi Domike and Ann T. Rosenthal met in graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University and have been collaborating on environmentally-focused art installations for over a decade. Rosenthal teaches out of her studio and at educational institutions in Pittsburgh. Domike develops and delivers educational programs for the United Steelworkers Union. Ruth Fauman-Fichman earned a PhD from University of Pittsburgh in Anthropology (Archaeology) and specializes in Mesoamerican archaeology.