The Givat Haviva Shared Art Center is housed in a spacious building surrounded by greenery, and at its heart is a contemporary art gallery. The center operates with a focus on multiculturalism, common ground between Arabs and Jews, and the existence of a shared society in Israel. The center is home to the largest ceramics school in the country, and hosts annual courses in various art fields, joint projects for Jews and Arabs, one-off workshops that support processes, workshops with guest artists, seminars, symposiums, teacher trainings, and gallery talks.
The center's goal is to expand the impact of artistic creation on the formation of a shared society, including through collaborations between groups of artists, cultural leaders, and the general public from both societies, Arab and Jewish.
The center's activities take place both within formal education frameworks and as part of informal educational activities. Tours of the gallery are included in the national cultural subsidies, and the courses taught at the center are recognized by the Ministry of Education for continuing education credit.
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An art camp from the individual to the collective, focused on developing artistic expression and personal and social empowerment.
An art camp for empowerment and development of artistic expression for general, professional, and outstanding specialty students.
The camp includes art workshops that develop the creative in areas of: quick sketching, painting in various techniques, sculpture, printmaking, digital and analog photography, and more, using fast and liberating techniques.
The camp includes the “Becoming an Artist for a Moment” tour, an inspiring visit to an exhibition at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery. Through a group creative process, each student discovers their inner creator, that can help develop creativity, thinking “outside the box,” and new ways of personal expression.
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Joint art camps for Jews and Arabs, or between religious and secular, as a tool for a multicultural society.
The program offers a meeting between different groups through the language of art, with an art instructor who offers unique workshops combining different types of art, values discourse, and supportive guidance for the development of social skills of coming to know the other. Each workshop includes work in small groups and group work.
Example workshops: ‘Watercolor Painting’ from the Personal to the Shared; ‘Through Other’s Eyes’ – a photography workshop for a shared society; Activist Art through Printmaking Techniques; A Hole in the World – photography with a pinhole camera; ‘Camera Obscura’, and ‘Photography without a Camera’ – taking photograms in a darkroom.
The length of the program can be chosen from 1 to 3 days depending on the groups’ needs.
The camp is held at the Shared Art Center on the Givat Haviva Campus.
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A visit, with interactive guidance, and a “personal signature” inspired by a contemporary art exhibition at a gallery that promotes shared living.
A visit and interactive guidance at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery, which presents contemporary art exhibitions that deal with social issues, multiculturalism, and shared living.
During the visit, students receive tools for observing and investigating works of art; engage in the experience of the material, the idea, the space and the connection between the artist’s life story and work; and experience an activity in pairs using a smartphone (adjustable according to the age and nature of the group). A creative workshop inspired by the exhibition comprises the second part of the visit.
• The guided tour is available in Hebrew, Arabic, or English.
• The tour is eligible for a culture basket subsidy.
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An experiential and inclusive art camp for all students.
The camp is a gateway to the world of art for students who are not involved in the field.
The program offers experiential and diverse workshops in which students can experiment with various techniques in the fields of practical art, such as: digital and analog photography – camera obscura, creating photograms in a darkroom, printing, sculpture in various materials, from 2D to 3D, shared painting, personal portrait, and more.
The camp is held at the Shared Art Center on the Givat Haviva campus. It can include an interactive tour of the exhibition at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery, which includes observation and analysis of works intuitively, emotionally, and cognitively through small group discussions and activities on the subject of composition using smartphones.
A one or two day art camp program can be chosen.
Intended for students who do not study art in an organized manner at school. (Not intended for art majors.)
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The program offers those interested a one-day or longer art camp, which centers on a group process dealing with the triangle of art, society, and humanity.
The art camp is designed for art majors in schools, during which students will experience professional artist workshops in the fields of plastic art, and will create after meeting in a contemporary art exhibition presented at the Givat Haviva Gallery.
The camp includes an experiential evening in one of the fields of performance (including: playback theater, movement, music, art and the environment).
Example workshops: ready-made, video art, pottery wheel, screen printing, performance art, stop motion, art book, analog photography, and environmental and site-specific art.
The work process takes place in small groups of up to 20 students and is guided by working artists with teaching experience.
New Exhibition
The fourth exhibition in the '“Derech Eretz - Way of the Land” exhibition series approaches the kibbutz with questions: How do we continue to create in a home where many of the residents are no longer? How did the kibbutz become an address to which its lovers and critics always return? When is it an address and when is it a home? The exhibition turns its gaze to the landscapes of the western Negev and its inhabitants.
Guided tour, conversations with creators, and dance performance
You are invited to the closing event of the "Way of the Land" exhibition series, an ongoing artistic event at Givat Haviva - which includes a tour of the exhibition "Kibbutz is Sometimes an Address, Sometimes Home", conversations with residents of the western Negev and dance performances.
We will not accept silencing of artists in educational and cultural institutions
The Givat Haviva Shared Art Center stands with Sophie Abu Shakra, artist and architect, whose exhibition was supposed to open on February 5 at the Holon Institute of Technology. The exhibition was canceled/postponed to an unknown date by the institute's management, shortly after the invitation was published, with procedural excuses that reek strongly of racism.
Anat Lidror
Director of the Shared Art Center, Director and Curator of the Givat Haviva Gallery
Mia Gordon
Administration and course coordination
052-898-6556
Mia Gordon 046372824 artgvha@givathaviva.org.il