biography
Prof. Deganit Stern Schocken
Born 1947 in Kibbutz Amir, Israel
01.10.1998 Appointed Senior Teacher
1998 – 2007 Head of Jewelry Design Department
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Education
2000 – 2001 Middlesex University London, UK
Masters of Arts with merit in Design
1977 – 1978 Middlesex Polytechnic (Hornsey School of Art) London, UK
Jewelry Design Department
1974 – 1976 Sir John Cass School of Art London, UK
Jewelry Design Department
1972 – 1973 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Jewelry Design Department, Jerusalem, Israel
1968 – 1972 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Department of Industrial Design and Environmental Design
'Bezalel Graduate'
Teaching & Management
2008 Design
The Jewelery design departement
The textile design department
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
1998-2007 Founder and Head of the Department of Jewelry Design
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Ramat-Gan, Israel
1997-98 Architecture
Interior Design Department
Ascola School of Design
Tel Aviv, Israel
1994-95 Jewelry Design
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Ramat-Gan, Israel
Artist in Residence
Cite des Arts
Paris, France
1991-96 Jewelry Design and Decorative Arts
The Bloomfield College of Art and Design
Haifa, Israel.
1985-89 Jewelry Design
The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Jerusalem, Israel.
Visiting lecturer
1997 Industrial Design Department
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Jerusalem, Israel
1994 Parsons School of Art, Paris Branch
Paris, France
1994 Royal College of Art
London, UK
1994 Schwabisch Gmund, Germany
Symposia & Conferences
2008 Between Construction &Emotion –international
Jewelery Conference Bratislava,
Guest speaker, Slovakia
2007 "Women's Tales" conference,
Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX, USA
Ars Ornata Europeana
Manchester, England
Guest speaker
2006 The Multidisciplinary Program of the Arts,
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Guest speaker
Motar conference: The Bible in Art,
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Guest speaker
Racine Art Museum Society meeting Racine,
Wisconsin, USA
2004 International Symposium - Jewelry Design
Lisbon, Portugal
Guest speaker
Conference of Israeli Ceramists Union
at Eretz Israel Museum
Tel Aviv, Israel
Guest speaker
2000 The Jewelry Seminar at Konstfack.
Stockholm, Sweden
Guest speaker: Body & Sign – Urban Jewelry
International Symposium - Jewelry & Precious stone
Turnov, Czech Republic
Guest speaker
International Enamel Symposium 2000
Bristol, England
Artist workshops
Sense of Wonder – Association for Contemporary Jewelry
Birmingham, England
1999 Ars Ornata Europeana – Krakow, Poland
4th International Conference for artists & jewelry designers
Guest speaker
Ars Ornata Europeana - Barcelona, Spain
4th International Conference for artists & jewelry designers
1994 Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Convention Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Public Professional Activities
2000 – 2007 member of the faculty committee at Shenkar
College of Engineering and Design
2000 – 2004 member of the Operating Committee for the
Administration of Plastic Art
Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2003 member of the professional jury
for the Design Awards
2000 member of the professional jury
for the Young Artist awards in Jewelry Design
2003 member of the administrative committee
of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
member of the professional jury for the San
Paolo Biennale
2002 member of the professional jury of the Architecture
Biennale in Venice
member of the Steering Committee for creating
the Israeli Design Museum in Holon
1998 – 2000 member of the Evaluating Committee for Art Schools in Israel
Ministry of Culture and Education
Private and Public Collections
The permanent collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA
The permanent collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwartz Collection, the Israel Museum,
Israel
The permanent collection of the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The permanent collection of the Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
The permanent collection of Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum,
Trondheim, Norway
Galleria Nachshon, Kibutz Nachshon, Israel
Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A
Gallery Ra, Amsterdam, Holland
SpeKtrum Gallery, Munich, Germany
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany
