{"id":1457,"date":"2012-08-27T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/jewishstudies\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2013-05-13T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:28:46","slug":"9-leading-israeli-artists-selected-for-north-american-residencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/jewishstudies\/2012\/9-leading-israeli-artists-selected-for-north-american-residencies\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Leading Israeli Artists Selected for North American Residencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York, NY\u2014August 22, 2012 – <\/strong>Nine leading Israeli artists will bring their talent and passion to residencies at colleges and universities across North America this fall and spring. The artists\u2014celebrated in a variety of disciplines, including filmmaking, choreography, music and literature\u2014will spend several months teaching and presenting their work to audiences in local communities through relevant programming, classes, exhibitions and performances.<\/p>\n

Among the artists coming this year are two esteemed writers: Gail Hareven and Sami Berdugo. Hareven is an established novelist whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker<\/em>. She will be hosted by Mt. Holyoke College<\/strong> in cooperation with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/strong> and Hampshire College<\/strong>. Hareven recently completed a project translating Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets into Hebrew with Dr. Avi Hasner, a distinguished physician and deputy director at an Israeli hospital.<\/p>\n

A young writer and popular creative writing teacher, Berdugo has received much critical attention for his work, \u201cwhich consistently breaks new poetic paths, thus challenging contemporary Israeli literature,\u201d according to Hebrew literature specialist Dr. Hanna Soker-Schwager. Already the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Prime Minister\u2019s Prize (2005), the Neumann Prize (2007) at Bar Ilan University and, most recently, the Ramat Gan Prize (2011) for his new book, \u201cThat Is To Say,\u201d Berdugo is one of the exciting voices of North African descent now emerging in Israel. He will be teaching at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT<\/strong>, for the spring semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exceptionally talented array of artists chosen for the Schusterman Visiting Artists Program embody the vibrant, creative face of Israel and provide a meaningful way for North Americans to connect to a diverse and complex contemporary Israel,\u201d said Lynn Schusterman, chair of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Philanthropic Network, which includes the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (CLSFF). CLSFF launched the Schusterman Visiting Artists program in 2008.<\/p>\n

The other 2012-2013 Schusterman Visiting Artists are:<\/p>\n