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2007 Highlights
- January 2007: Five AIDA artists – Sergey Bunkov, Gali Cnaani, Dafna Kaffeman, Jacaranda Kori, and Michal Zehavi, participated in palmbeach3, South Florida’s
leading regional contemporary art fair. Click here for image.
- September
2006 – January
2007: “Women's Tales:
Four Leading Israeli Jewelers”. The exhibit,
supported in part by AIDA and produced in collaboration
with the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, is an in-depth study
of the work of four of Israeli's leading contemporary
jewelers: Bianca Eshel-Gershuni, Vered Kaminski, Esther
Knobel, and Deganit Stern Schocken opened at the Racine
Art Museum. In March 8 – June
17, 2007 the exhibition opened
at the Bellevue Art
Museum, Washington. In October
5, 2007 – January 6, 2008 the exhibition opened at
the Houston
Center for Contemporary Craft. Click on the attached links to read reviews from The Seattle Times and American Craft.
- March 15 – September 15, 2007: In collaboration with the Trio Vetro Glass Studio in Tel Aviv, AIDA provided 6 months of studio time to 5 promising glass artists: Moran Resler, Lizbeth Biger, Noaz Harel, Dalit Velleman and Alexi Ben-Abba.
- March
18 – 22, 2007: Jewish
Funders Network in Atlanta. Yaw, Sienna, R.
Duane Reed and the Thomas
R. Riley Galleries exhibited the work
of the AIDA artists they represent.
- March
22 – April
1, 2007: AIDA, in cooperation with the Parents
Circle Families Forum, co-presented “Offering
Reconciliation” at Brandeis University, an exhibition
of 135 thematically decorated vessels by Israeli and Palestinian
artists centering on the theme of reconciliation. Click here to read the press release and here for a guide to the exhibit printed in the Brandeis Magazine. To view images from the opening event click 1 2 3 and 4.
- May 4 – 12, 2007: AIDA sponsored glass blowing workshops at Bezalel Academy and the Trio Vetro Glass Studio in Tel Aviv. The workshop, taught by professional glass blowers John Kiley and Jen Elek, was opened to artists from all media.
- Summer 2007: AIDA
sent 5 decorative artists from Israel to participate
in residency programs at Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts, The Studio
at the Corning Museum of Glass, Watershed
Center for Ceramic Arts, and Penland
School of Crafts. A committee
of AIDA artists, led by Aviva, selected the scholarship
recipients.
- June 1, 2007: AIDA's co-founder Dale Anderson, led an exclusive tour of SOFA NY highlighting seven AIDA artists working in clay, fiber and jewelry. This intimate tour allowed the opportunity to speak with the AIDA jury, learn more about the artists and meet with the gallery owners representing them.
- June 2007: the AIDA jury committee visited artists' studios in Israel in preparation for SOFA 2007 and the Philadelphia Craft Show in 2008.
- June 12, 2007: Itay Noy was awarded the 2007 Andy Prize at a ceremony held at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel.
- June 26, 2007: AIDA held it's first "Meet the Artist" luncheon with AIDA artist Hiyuli Liberman following the completion of her fellowship at the Corning Museum of Glass.
- Aug 8, 2007: Following the success of the first luncheon, AIDA held it's second "Meet the Artist" with AIDA artists Marcelle Klein and Yael Atzmony following the completion of their residency at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts.
- November
1 – 4,
2007: AIDA presented “Offering
Reconciliation” at SOFA.
- November – December
2007: AIDA supported a show of Israeli jewelers and ceramists at the Flow
Gallery in London.
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