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Shlomit Bauman

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Shlomit Bauman, Israeli, born in 1962

Shlomit Bauman was born on Kibbutz Amir in 1962 to Ilana and the sculptor Tuli (Shaul) Bauman. From 1988 to 2005 she served as Chair of the Ceramic Artists Association of Israel and as a member of the editorial board of their magazine 1280°c. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Bauman’s works typically combine ceramic sculpture with an assemblage composed of various materials. In addition her works are typified by a critical approach and expressions of political and social protest. In her series of works entitled “Channel AlDuwara,” for example, she created monitors made of ceramics broadcasting imaginary broadcasts from the abandoned Arab village AlDuwara. In her series of works “Ran Out” (2014-2015) she created sculptural structures composed of ceramic materials that were mined in Israel in the past.

Education

1983 Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1988 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Graduate of the Ceramic Design department, BFA
1998 Participated in student exchange program in ceramics design from Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, to the Parsons Institute of Design, New York City, USA
1995-2000 Tel Aviv University, Philosophy of Science and Ideas, M.A.
2005 Technion, Haifa, Program in Product Design, M.A.

Teaching

1989-92 Head - Injury Rehabilitation Department, Jaffa, Project of Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology.
1994-99 Public College, Bat Yam
1995-99 Art Teachers College, Beit Berl, Sculpture
1996 and on, Technological Education Academy, Holon
1998-99 Hof Hasharon College, Kibbutz Shfayim
1999-2001 Member of Plastic Art Department, Ministry of Education
2007-present, Sapir College, School of Art, Society, and Culture, Sderot

Awards And Prizes

1986 Blanche and Romi Shapiro Prize for outstanding design of ceramic Jewish sacred objects, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1988 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Scholarship
1988 Devora Blumenthal Prize for Final Project, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel
1997 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Education and Culture
2012 Prize for Design, Ministry of Culture and Sport

Environmental Sculptures

Mural, Elementary School for Arts, Acco
Elderly Centers, Ofakim, Beit Shean, Shlomi
Mural, Acco High School
4 Ceramic Murals, Elementary School, Rosh Pina
Beer Sheva