מתקנות עולם: אמנות פמיניסטית וזהות יהודית

Dr. Mor Presiado is an art scholar and a lecturer at the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. She studies and delivers lectures on such topics as modern and contemporary art, gender and women’s art, the art of the Holocaust and art and trauma. Her publications appear in leading journals and they mostly focus on women’s creations during and after the Holocaust, as well as on the influence of feminism on the art of the Holocaust. In addition to her academic pursuits, Dr. Presiado also serves as deputy chairperson of the Association for Women’s Art and Gender Research in Israel.

Dr. David Sperber is an art historian, curator, and art critic. In 2012, he co-curated the international exhibition “Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art” at the Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod in Israel. Sperber’s articles have appeared in numerous publications, including academic periodicals, museum exhibition catalogs, and popular media. Sperbers’ forthcoming book, based on his PhD. dissertation is entitled Devoted Resistance: Religious Jewish Feminist Art in the US and Israel, 1990-2017. As a postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, Sperber is currently at work on his second book entitled Liberating Body, Earth, and God: Helène Aylon’s Jewish-Feminist Art in the United States, 1970–2017

Dr. Tal Dekel is the head of the program for visual literacy and the head of the track for curator studies at the Kibbutzim College. She also teaches at the Department of Art History and at the program for gender studies at Tel Aviv University. Dekel focuses on art in Israel and specializes in such subjects as gender, migration and transnationality through the lens of visual culture. She published articles in leading journals both in Israel and around the world, and published books in Hebrew and English, including Gendered – Art and Feminist Theory (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), and Transnational Identities – Women, Art and Migration in Contemporary Israel (Wayne State University Press, 2016).
In addition to her academic activities, Dekel is also a social activist and serves in the board of directors of the association “My Sister – for Women in Israel”, and also as chairperson of the Association for the Study of Women’s Art and Gender in Israel.