Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

We're happy to announce the Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Open to Bezalel graduates up to seven years after graduation, the prize will award $7000 to an outstanding artist. Deadline to apply is June 30, 2016.

The Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design,... http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/news/item/?id=2118

Check out Haim Parnass's and Prof. Ezri Tarazi exhibit at the Tower of David Museum! Haim is the Head of Bezalel's Industrial Design Department and Ezri also teaches here.

At Tower of David, ancient stones host modern art ode to Jerusalem

Our Graduate Catalogue has gone digital in case you can't make it to the Exhibition. Check it out!

Bezalel 2015 | Graduate Exhibition

The Academy is starting to take the shape of a gallery. Walls going up, walls coming down, and the smell of paint everywhere!

One more week until the opening of the Year End Exhibition!

Next month we'll be hosting people from around the world for our Summer Ceramics Seminar, there's still a some spots left if you want to sign up!

If you were wondering what your favourite world leader would look like as a hipster, check out Amit Shimoni's work.

amit shimoni turns obama, dalai lama and more into hipsters amit shimoni continues the 'hipstory' series with the addition of seven world and cultural leaders, both contemporary and historical.

Last week's Genesis Prize Ceremony generated a lot of buzz. Check out the prize Michael Douglas is holding. It was designed by Bezalel graduate and current lecturer Boris Shpeizman!

Michael Douglas accepts doubled Genesis Prize Veteran actor laughs, tears up during lavish ‘Jewish Nobel’ ceremony

The Bezalel Graduate Program in Urban Design invites you to "City After Dark: Illuminating the Urban Nightscape: International Conference" on the diverse aspects of urban lighting, from the perspectives of design, planning, sociology and ecology of nocturnal lighting in urban spaces. The conference is a part of the Jerusalem Festival Of Light In The Old City, organized by the Jerusalem Municipality | עיריית ירושלים and the Jerusalem Development Corporation, and managed and produced by the Ariel City Company.

Tickets Available Below

City After Dark: Illuminating the Urban Nightscape: International Conference - Bezalel Academy... The Bezalel Graduate Program in Urban Design invites you to an international conference on the diverse aspects of urban lighting, from the perspectives of design, planning, sociology and ecology of nocturnal lighting in urban spaces. The conference is a part of the 2015 International Light Festival…

A nice piece in the The Jerusalem Post / JPost.com about fashion brand, Sister M, co-founded by Bezalel grad Meital Metrani and her sister Raya.

Sister, sister Local up-and-coming fashion label Sister M is the brainchild of siblings Raya and Meital.

Join our MFA program along with Artport Tel Aviv | The Center for Young Art and HaMidrasha Fine Arts Program for:

“Phantom Capital: Thinking about capital in the digital era"
The conference will gather conflictive positions as well as disparate points of view, trying to understand and decode our current reality in which digital technology and capitalism seem to have created a flirtatious and interestingly dangerous marriage.

More information here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1429336384051616/

מחר יתקיים כנס "פנטום קפיטל: מחשבות על הון בעידן הדיגיטלי", שיתוף פעולה ראשוני בין ארטפורט תל אביב, תכנית התואר השני באמנויות (MFA) בצלאל והתכנית ללימודי המשך באמנות במדרשה, המכללה האקדמית בית ברל.
הכנס "פנטום קפיטל" שואל את שמו ממונח שטבעה האמנית אניישקה קוראנט, ומתייחס לרעיון לפיו הכלכלה העכשווית מבוססת כיום לא רק על סחורות, מטבעות כסף ושטרות חוב, אלא היא בחלקה הגדול וירטואלית ונסמכת על "רוחות רפאים" של ישויות ושירותים, רעיונות וכוח אבסטרקטי.

פרטים נוספים: http://on.fb.me/1KQBffk
הכנס פתוח לקהל, ויתקיים בשפה האנגלית

דימוי: אגניישקה קוראנט, Minus One Dollar
Artport Tel Aviv | The Center for Young Art
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
המכללה האקדמית בית ברל

Check out the Esh Kol project that Bezalel grad Shmulik Twig is putting together: An interactive fire sculpture where you can yell and your scream transforms into flames

אש-קול, מידברן 2015 Esh-Kol, midburn פסל אש אינטראקטיבי בו צעקה הופכת ללהבות אש An interactive fire sculpture where you can yell and your scream transforms into flames.

Our departments of Industrial Design and תקשורת חזותית בצלאל Visual Communication Bezalel are making waves in disruptive tech.

החודש התקיים האירוע Think-Next של מרכז המחקר והפיתוח של מיקרוסופט בישראל. האירוע התקיים ברוח הקונספט Creativity and Technology.

בחמש השנים האחרונות Think-Next הפך לאירוע החשיפה והחדשנות הטכנולוגית המוביל בישראל, שווה ערך ל LeWeb אוTech Crunch Disrupt והוא האירוע הבולט בין אירועי התעשייה הקיימים בישראל עם דגש חזק על יצירתיות וחשיבה מחוץ לקופסא.

האקדמיה בצלאל הציגה מספר עבודות של המחלקה לעיצוב תעשייתי והמחלקה תקשורת חזותית.

תודות ל: ערן לדרמן, בוגר ומרצה - המחלקה לעיצוב תעשייתי.
גיא וגמן, דור טל, מורן קריגסמן, עידן רייזברג, הדס אילני, תמיר ניב – בוגרי המחלקה לעיצוב תעשייתי.
ניר סבח, אדר רום, אבי נעים, עילאי עובדיה – בוגרי המחלקה לתקשורת חזותית.
עמוס אידן, גלעד בן חיון ומתן שטראובר – סטודנטים במחלקה לתקשורת חזותית.

Ceramics and Glass alum, Adi Nissani, has a new project that looks good enough to eat.

This Restaurant Has Plates Designed To Make Your Meals Look Perfect On Instagram Time for a trip to Israel.

The Photography Department Bezalel is pleased to announce the launch of a new prize.
The Bezalel Photography Prize will be awarded to an artist whose work reflects sensitivity to local contexts based on the assumption that the creative and innovative potential of the new media (photography, video, moving image, sound, and installations) lies in the utmost utilization of the place's dynamic advantages.

http://bit.ly/bezphotoprize

אנו שמחים להודיע על ייסודו של פרס חדש מטעם המחלקה לצילום בבצלאל --> http://bit.ly/BezalelPhotoPrize

Read about the Earthquake Proof Table featured in the The New York Times yesterday designed by Industrial Design graduate, Arthur Brutter and refined by professor Ido Bruno.

Trying to Stay Ahead of Earthquake Disasters A nonprofit, GeoHazards International, helps developing countries prepare for earthquakes and save lives in places like Kathmandu.

Join us this June for an International Conference to highlight the social, environmental and spatial aspects of lighting in the contemporary city. Leading designers and researchers will be invited, and in parallel, lighting design workshops and exhibitions will be run locally.

One of Bezalel's first graduates, Yaakov Stark, gets another chance after more than 100 years.

Century after artist’s death, Jerusalem synagogue restores mural masterpiece Yaakov Stark died penniless of tuberculosis in 1915; now his early Zionist art at the Ades Synagogue is on show in all its glory

Join us this summer for the 2nd International Glass Summer School 2015 at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

This year the program’s motto is “From the past to future: applying traditional craft to contemporary art”

http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/news/item/?id=1843

Read about how Sara Kaminker and other alumni from our Department of Ceramics and Glass Design have contributed to Yad Vashem's new exhibit “Children in the Holocaust: Stars Without a Heaven”

The creative mind of the child survivor A new Yad Vashem exhibit focuses on children of the Holocaust and how they escaped the horrors of reality under the N***s

Looking to use high tech to improve campus life on Mount Scopus? Join us and Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the HUJI Hackathon on April 30th.

HUJI Hackathon 2015 HUJI hackathon 2015 is the first students hackathon held in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A Hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and graphic designers collaborate intensively on software projects. Our Hackathon will be held with the goal of creating tools for students, each team…

Congratulations to our six winning graduates at the 2015 Design Awards!

אות העיצוב 2015 – הזוכים | Design & Architecture טקס פרסי "אות העיצוב" 2015 נערך זו השנה העשירית ברציפות והתקיים ביום חמישי 26.3.15 באוניברסיטת ת"א. בערב הוכתרו המעצבים והאדריכלים שהצליחו השנה יותר מכולם לחדש,

Blue (and white) Steel: Men’s fashion is taking off in Israel
A new generation of Israeli men’s apparel designers aims for a global market in the Internet age.

Check out this article featuring recent graduate, Hed Mayner, about the evolving men's fashion industry in Israel and online.

www.haaretz.com

Ilana Elovic Bezalel Prize for Painting - News Item - Bezalel

http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/news/item/?id=1102

bezalel.ac.il Active Israeli Artists are invited to submit application to the Ilana Elovic Bezalel Prize for Painting, Established by Dr. Eugene Elovic and Family

The Academy wishes to congratulate its graduates and lecturers on receiving the 2011 Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for Visual Arts

David Adika, graduate and lecturer, Photography Department

Noa Zdaka, graduate and lecturer, Photography Department

Eitan Ben Moshe, lecturer, Department of Fine Arts

Shai Ignatz, graduate, Photography Department and Continuing Education in Fine Arts

Raida Adon, graduate, Department of Fine Arts

The Bezalel Academy wishes to congratulate Professor Nahum Tevet, Lecturer and Head of the Masters in Fine Arts program (2001-2010), on receiving the Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture

The Academy wishes to congratulate the Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2011 Prize winners –

Prof. Ido Bar-El
Graduate, Lecturer, and Head of Fine Art Department (2003-2011) was awarded the Mandel and Eva Pundik Prize for an Israeli Artist

Maya Zach
Lecturer and Fine Arts Graduate was awarded the Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize for an Israeli Artist

Ilit Azoulay
Lecturer and MFA Graduate was awarded the Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist

Hadas Hassid
MFA Graduate was awarded the Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art

Hila Toony Navok and Efrat Kedem
MFA Graduates were awarded the Shmuel Givon Prize

The Academy wishes to congratulate Natalie Bettelheim and Sharon Michaeli, Bezalel graduates of the Screen Based Arts Department, on earning an honorable mention at the 2011 Haifa International Film Festival, for their end of year final project film Howl. The film was mentioned for its original story, directing, and deep and meaningful film design that expresses the reality, anxiety, and fears of early motherhood.

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