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NURIT SHILO-COHEN
Nurit Shilo-Cohen was an emeritus Senior Curator-at-Large for Museum Education in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. She has been Chief Curator and Director of The Ruth Youth Wing of the Israel Museum for 15 years; before that she was an exhibition curator in the art department of the Museum. Nurit is also the author of many books and articles. She has a degree in art history and Jewish philosophy and a degree in biology, both from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a Board Member of Hands On! International until 2012 and is a jury member of the Children in Museums Award.
Nurit Shilo-Cohen passed away 31/10/2020
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012-2019
MUSEUM CONSULTANT
JURY MEMBER OF CMA (CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AWARD)
2005-2011
SENIOR CURATOR-AT-LARGE FOR MUSEUM EDUCATION AND CURATOR
OF ILLUSTRATION, THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM
1990-2005
CHIEF CURATOR OF THE RUTH YOUTH WING, THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
1985-1990
CURATOR, EILAT MUSEUM OF ART
1980-1985
CURATOR OF SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS, THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
1974-1980
ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF CURATOR OF ART, THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
EDUCATION
1975
TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATE IN ART HISTORY –
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM
1974
SUMMER COURSE AT HARVARD SCHOOL OF EDUCATION –
PROJECT ZERO
1973
BSC. IN BIOLOGY – THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM
1972
B.A. IN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND ART HISTORY –
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
Books
9 International Illustrators: From Bologna to Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2011 (28 pp)
The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children’s Book, 2010, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2008 (32pp)
The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children’s Book, 2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2008 (36pp)
The Youth Wing from A to Z, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2007 (248pp)
The Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children’s Book, 2006, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2006 (32pp)
The Big Book of Illustrators, Recipients of the Israel Museum Ben-Yitzhak Award for the Illustration of a Children’s Book, 1978-2004, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Am Oved Publications, Jerusalem, 2005 (360pp)
The Black Colors Died and The Happy Colors Won, Drawings by Children with Cancer, The Israel Cancer Association and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 2002 (236pp)
Inside the Israel Museum, A Family Guide, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2000 (72pp)
Stork, Stork, How is Our Land? Works by Newly Arrived Ethiopian Immigrant Children, 1991, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1991 (72 pp)
Bezalel, 1906-1929, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1983 (exhibition catalogue: Hebrew, 364pp / English, 394 pp) (+ checklist in Hebrew 120pp)
The Kadishman Connection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1979 (exhibition catalogue: 34pp)
SELECTED ARTICLES
“The Israel Museum Award for Illustration”, Bookbird, vol. 46, no. 4, Bookbird publications, Toronto, 2008 (pp. 53-57)
“The Ruth Youth Wing: A Door to the Israel Museum”, Hand to Hand, vol. 22 no. 3, Association of Children’s Museums, Washington DC, 2008 (p. 8)
“Un siècle d’illustrations de livres en hebreu pour enfants”, La revue des livres pour enfants, no. 239, Les joie par les livres, Paris, 2008 (pp. 116-124)
“Stork, Stork, How is Our Land?”, Writers and Illustrators, vol. 27, no. 1-2, The Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children, New Delhi, 2008 (pp. 195-198)
“The Youth Wing”, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Abrams and The Israel Museum, New York and Jerusalem, 2005, (pp. 294-311)
“Addressing Social Issues and Current Events at the Ruth Youth Wing”, The Israel Museum Journal, vol. 13, Jerusalem, 1995 (pp. 37-49)
“The Youth Wing”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1995 (pp. 230-235)
“The ‘Hebrew Style’ of Bezalel, 1906-1929”, The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 20, Florida, 1994 (pp. 140-163)
“Israeli Children Paint War”, The Psychological Effects of War and Violence on Children, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, New Jersey, 1993 (pp. 93-107)
“Children’s Painting During the Gulf War”, Ariel, 83, Jerusalem, 1991 (pp. 40-44)
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