2014 Events & Highlights
- February 2014: Click to view a short video clip from our conversation with the Directors of the Corning Studio, Haystack Mountain School, Pilchuck Glass School and Penland School of Crafts at SOFA Chicago.
- February 2014: The Norton Museum of Art is presenting BIJOUX!, a contemporary art jewelry show. featuring seven artists from Israel: Dania Chelminsky, Nirit Dekel, Liat Ginzburg, Asnat Koblenz, NoaLia (Noa Liran & Lia Kirel), Sara Shahak, and Inbar Shahak Berchman.
- March 2014: Aida Artist Highlight: Dana Hakim, an AIDA jeweler, has a solo show at the esteemed Dutch Galerie Marzee.
- March 2014: Aida Artist Highlight: Samy D has a joint exhibition with artist Ronen Shaarabani at the Farm Gallery in Holon, Israel. The exhibition opens the 4th edition of the Israeli Design Week in Holon, an initiative of Design Museum Holon.
- April 2014: Davira Taragin curates new show Without Camouflage. Dafna Kaffeman. Sylvia Levenson at the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University. AIDA made a lead grant to support the catalog that will accompany this exhibition as well as a grant that will enable AIDA artist Dafna Kaffeman (Director of the Glass Program at Bezalel) to travel from Tel Aviv to do a series of workshops and demonstrations with the BFA and MFA students at Ball State University.
- April 2014: AIDA is sending esteemed American sculptor and glass artist Daniel Clayman to Israel in April, where he will be teaching a multi-day workshop entitled "Glass Casting in a Ceramic Kiln" at Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, as well as lecturing at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.
- April 2014: Roi Carmeli and Netta Bacon, two Israel artists, are selected to participate in Discovering glass art at Expressions in Glass, at Minnetrista, Muncie, IN.
- April 2014: Aida Artist Highlight: Gali Cnaani has been chosen to participate in a group show at the esteemed browngrotta arts, a gallery that specializes in international art textiles, mixed media and dimensional art.
- May 2014: AIDA Announces the winners of the Andy Bronfman - AIDA Awards at Corning scholarship/residencies: Nimrod Azulay, Olya Brenner, Li Chen, Einav Mekori, Lior Vagima, Gregori Zilber
- May 2014: AIDA Announces the winners of the AIDA Awards at Pilchuck Glass School scholarship/residencies: Lisbeth Biger, Noam Dover, Danny Kalderon, Yoav Reches
- June 2014: AIDA Announces the winners of the AIDA Awards at at Haystack Mountain School scholarship/residencies: Michal Caspi, Ori Efrat, Eladd Guterman, Shachar Krishner, Shavit Munder, Elad Yehezkel, Shira Zinger
- June 2014: AIDA Announces the winners of the AIDA Awards at Penland School of Crafts scholarship/residencies: Shay Gerassy, Barak Harel, Lee Schein, Orly Wexler
- June 2014: AIDA Awards UrbanGlass Residency to Olya Brener
- July 2014: Emerging Israeli artist Ruta Reifen has a solo exhibition at Sienna Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts
- September 2014: AIDA's Director, Aviva Ben-Sira, and six jewelers from Israel will travel to Montreal with support from AIDA to present their work as part of BIJOUX=ART: 18-21 Sep 2014 at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. The jewelers include: Sarit Assaf, Dania Chelminsky, Avital Coorsh, Nirit Dekel, Lia Kirel and Sara Shahak.
- September 2014: The Association of Israel's Decorative Arts is honored to join with the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation in supporting Twists And Turns at 108 contemporary in Tulsa, OK, featuring the work of Israel artists Aleksandra Stoyanov and Zemer Peled
- October 2014: AIDA artist Mira Maylor, represented by Habatat Galleries, will be showing at SOFA Chicago. AIDA supporters receive VIP access.
- November 2014: AIDA Watershed scholarship recipient Martha Rieger's work My China Blues was awarded the Special Judge's Award at the International Ceramics Festival in Mino, Japan, one of the world's largest and most important ceramic festivals.
- November 2014: AIDA artist Ayala Serfaty has been commissioned by the Corning Museum of Glass to create an original, freestanding glass scultpure. The piece, lit from within with LED, will be approximately 84 x 60 inches, and is scheduled to be completed by the end of Summer 2015.
- December 2014: AIDA artists at Craft Boston Holiday Show: Nirit Dekel, Sara Shahak and Anat Zamir
- December 2014: AIDA is bringing Sergei Isupov to Israel to lecture and do demonstrations for 350 artists at the Ceramic Artists Association of Israel Conference at Tel Hai College. He will also present at the Benyamini Ceramic Center in Tel Aviv and Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem.