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Ora Lerman
Born	(1938-03-14)March 14, 1938 Campbellsville, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	April 19, 1998(1998-04-19) (aged 60)
Alma mater	Antioch College Pratt Institute

Ora Lerman (1938–1998) was an American painter and sculptor.

Lerman was born on March 14, 1938 in Campbellsville, Kentucky. She attended Antioch College and the Pratt Institute.

Lerman was part on the feminist art movement of the 1970s in New York City, serving as president of the New York chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art from 1978 through 1980. In 1977 she received a MacDowell Fellowship.

In 1997 Lerman completed a mural entitled Inside the Ark. It was commissioned by the NYC Board of Education and installed in P.S. 113 at 4862 Broadway in Manhattan.

Lerman died on April 19, 1998. Her work is in the collection of the Jewish Museum in New York. In 2001 a retrospective of her work was held at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion entitled Ora Lerman: I Gave You My Song.

References

1. ^ "Collection: Ora Lerman Papers". Archives and Special Collections at Rutgers. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
2. "About Ora Lerman". Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
3. ^ "Ora Lerman: I Gave You My Song". Hebrew Union College. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
4. "Ora Lerman - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
5. "Ora Lerman". NYC Percent for Art. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
6. "Artists and Makers in the Jewish Museum Collection". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved 13 December 2024.

• 1938 births
• 1998 deaths
• People from Campbellsville, Kentucky
• Antioch College alumni
• Pratt Institute alumni
• 20th-century American women painters