Open by appointment, please email arts@aju.edu to schedule a viewing. A Legacy of Loss: There Were No Roses There, explores family migration and the inherited trauma of exile in a series of new site-specific works. Born stateless in Rome while her parents were fleeing Soviet-era Moldova, Yurshansky draws on her personal experience to examine the aftermath of immigration and inherited trauma – specifically, what is lost from the place of expulsion and how adopted homelands accept and respond to outsiders. Inspired by journeys back to Moldova, encounters with family artifacts gathered hastily before leaving, and reflections on the twists and turns of family lives, the exhibit invites viewers to explore their own collective and individual journeys. Yurshansky conceived the gallery as an installation to be experienced from both inside and outside of the space. The titular sculpted glass, welded, charred, braised steel, and wood installation traces her family’s international migration routes. The exhibition also features a number of textile-based works, analog slide projections, and a performative audio guide that invites visitors to roam the natural world of American Jewish University’s campus and meet the blacklisted species that live among us.