Shirly Bar-Amotz

Teaches at Brooklyn Metal Works

Shirly Bar-Amotz was born and raised on Kibbutz Ma'abarot - the granddaughter of Zionist pioneers of Eastern European descent. She received both her BFA and MFA degrees from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem where she currently teaches. As the recipient of the 2012 Andrea M. BronfmanPrize for the Arts, Bar-Amotz received an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, an accompanying catalogue and two works purchased for the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Shirly Bar-Amotz has had her work exhibited in numerous international exhibitions including Israel, The Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States. Bar-Amotz attributes much of her success to the support of AIDA (Association of Israel's Decorative Arts) whose mission it is to promote the development of contemporary decorative artists from Israel by connecting them to a wide international audience.