- Deganit Stern Schocken
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Prof. Deganit Stern Schocken is an Israeli jewelry artist. [1]
Schocken was born in Amir, Israel, a kibbutz in northern Israel. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and studied four years at the Sir John Cass College of Art and in the Middlesex Polytechnic in London.
She received the Alix de Rothschild Foundation Prize in 2001.
Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.
She was part of an exhibition called "Women's Tales: Four Leading Israeli Jewelers", a leading international collaboration between The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin that traveled through the United States. [2] Stern Schocken was a founder, and headed the jewelry department at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan. She is now on its teaching faculty and resides in Herzliya.
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Categories:- Alumni of Middlesex University
- Israeli artists
- Living people
- Israeli women artists
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