Israeli Art as a Window to Israeli History and Memory
February 23 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am
With Israeli artist and educator Shirel Horovitz
The TBS Adult Learning committee is pleased to invite Shirel Horovitz, creative director for CSP, and an award winning artist with exhibits in museums and galleries in Israel and the US.
In this program at TBS, Shirel will present Israeli art from the early 20th century to today touching on key art works and themes to explore the way they highlight and challenge the Israeli narrative. It’s a fascinating way to take a fresh look at the Israeli narrative as well as a unique introduction to behind the scenes of the Israeli art world. Shirel will emphasize shifting narratives, its relation to the international art world and will lay the groundwork to understanding the diversity of the contemporary local scene.
A bagel breakfast will be served. $10 for non-members.
Register: t-b-s.me/israeliart
Contact: adultlearning@tbsneedham.org
Artist and educator artist Shirel Horovitz, creates performances and installations exploring cities, communities and the relations between people and space. She earned her BFA from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, and her MA from the interdisciplinary art program in Tel Aviv University. Her works were exhibited in museums and galleries in Israel and the US. She is recipient of the Rabinovich prize 2018 and the Weismann art grant for 2023. A new series of her drawings are part of a new exhibition at ANU museum and she is currently working on new sculptures in her studio in Tel Aviv towards a solo show opening in The Herzliya Artists Residence Gallery.
Alongside her art practice, Shirel is the creative director of CSP. Horovitz lectures, leads art tours, teaches art and is an art consultant to a variety of private groups and institutions, among them Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Alma Hebrew college, Classrooms Without Borders, Azrieli LTD, Minshar College of Art and more.
Drawing from multiple fields of knowledge, Shirel weaves into each experience aspects of social issues, politics, economy, religion and more to create a vivid and nuanced image of Israeli reality. Her knowledge, passion and love of all that is art and Israeli history are nothing less than contagious.
