Nahum Tevet
www.tevet.net

Sculptor extraordinaire, teacher and mentor, Nahum Tevet received the lifetime achievement award from the Ministry of Science and Culture and Sport in the Culture Administration, Museums and Visual Arts Department, The Israel Council of Culture and Art on April 13. His work is currently on view at the Museo D’arte Rome.

Nahum is the founder and head of Bezalel’s MFA program that is located in Tel Aviv. It was the first post-graduate program Bezalel offered. Bezalel’s MFA graduates have gone on to wide acclaim. Today the MFA program is in great demand. Endowment and support will insure stability and mean the program will continue to grow. In the coming year, artists from other universities will be visiting the academy teaching and leading workshops.

Born on a kibbutz, Nahum moved to Tel Aviv in his early thirties and soon after burst upon the art world’s stage. Robert Rauschenberg ‘discovered’ Nahum, encouraged him to come to new york and the rest is history. While in New York, Nahum visited all the major museums, every art gallery and exhibition space. He raved about the New York art scene but made a special point of how big a role Israeli artists are playing internationally.

Daniel Bauer

Long Island native, Daniel Bauer moved to Israel as a teenager to live on a kibbutz. Bauer studied history and political science at Hebrew University until 1993, then continued his studies at Bezalel Academy, where he received a BFA in photography. Moving on to New York’s Columbia University, Bauer earned an MFA in photography in 2006. Soon afterward he returned to Bezalel Academy to join our distinguished faculty. In September 2008, Bauer will become a tenured faculty member at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bauer’s solo show, “The Combination of Limits,” recently made waves at the Andrea Meislin Gallery.

Caption:
The Grandmother's Blue Room 2005,
Chromogenic color print,
31.5 x 45.5 inches (980 x 116 cm)
Edition of 5

Screen-Based Arts
The Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Jerusalem has been preparing for the future by establishing a Screen-Based Arts Department, offering a curricular program for a Bachelor’s degree (BFA). This is the first of its kind in Israel. This year, two of Bezalel’s existing departments merged into the new Screen-Based Arts department and have received recognition from the Council of Higher Education as an academic program able to award a Bachelor’s degree. The two departments, Animation and Video & New Media, have, over the last years, established themselves as leaders on a global scale. Bezalel has become synonymous with quality and excellence in animation films. In the last two years alone, work of Bezalel students won 12 prizes (first and second places) in animation festivals around the world.

View Sigalit Landau’s work at the MOMA
March 19-July 18
www.moma.org

Born in Jerusalem in 1969, Landau is a 1994 graduate of the Fine Arts Department at Bezalel and has returned to teach on many occasions. Landau has received numerous awards and honors, including the Dan Sandel and Sandel Family Foundation for Sculpture award, the Beatrice S. Kolliner award for a Young Israeli Artist, and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Jeannette and George Jaffin scholarship.

Landau often collects materials and creates components for her projects through a lived experience of place. She works with everyday, often taken-for-granted subject matter such as entries, exits, and trash removal systems. Landau has presented numerous solo exhibitions and participated in a variety of group exhibitions in Israel and Europe. Landau lives and works in Tel Aviv.

The Museum of Modern Art was the site of Landau’s provocative exhibition, Projects 87. Friends of Bezalel joined the artist in the gallery for a special pre-opening celebration. After the event, a number of Friends joined Landau for drinks and conversation at Bar Modern. View photos from the event.

Learn more about Sigalit Landau.