Michal Shamir

Artist and mother of four, head of the School of Art, Society and Culture, Sapir College. Born in 1957 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Israel. A graduate of the college and owner of the MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Shamir currently serves as head of the School of Social Art and Culture at Sapir Academic College. Shamir has won many awards for her work (including the Culture and Education Award for an Israeli artist). Her works have been exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions in Israel and around the world, and appear in many important collections.