EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

Since 2005, AIDA has been giving scholarships to artists and helping to place teachers from Israel at the great Summer Studio Craft Programs in the United States.

In the last year, we’ve formalized our relationships with the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, Haystack Mountain School, Penland School, Pilchuck Glass School and Watershed Center for Ceramics.

In November, 2011, Stuart Kestenbaum, Director of Haystack Mountain School and Amy Schwartz, Director of the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass will travel to Israel to spend a week with our Director, Aviva Ben Sira. Aviva will introduce them to artists, collectors, educators and museum directors so they can meet their colleagues, present their programs and start thinking about programs they might create together.

AIDA was founded on the premise of “giving the unexpected the chance to happen” and we’re going back to our roots to move forward vigorously.

 

CRAFT SHOW PARTNERSHIPS

Several years ago, AIDA participated in the Philadelphia Craft Show and brought 26 artist/craftsmen from Israel to present and sell their work directly to the public.

Two years later, we brought 16 artist/craftsmen to Craft/Boston. Based on the success of this project, Craft/Boston has issued an open invitation to the artists who participated to come back anytime without having to be juried. While others would have to be juried in, they would be welcome.

We continue to work to make these opportunities available to our artist/craftsmen now that they have learned how to participate in these kinds of shows.