Shai Zakai Explained
Shai Zakai is a photographer, artist, and ecological activist known for her artworks involving water reclamation.[1] [2]
Life
Zakai was born in Tel Aviv in 1957. She studied at Hadassah College, Jerusalem and at Hebrew University.[3]
Work
Zakai's best-known piece of art is Concrete Creek, a three-year project started in 1999 that documented the cleanup of a concrete-polluted creek in the Valley of Elah. The piece includes video and photo documentary of the cleanup, as well as a sculpture created from the cleaned-up waste.[4] [5] [6]
Zakai founded the Israeli Forum for Ecological Art in 1999 to encourage the development of ecological art in Israel and the world.[7] [8]
Notes and References
- Book: Mark Cheetham. Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s. 15 February 2018. Penn State University Press. 978-0-271-08140-3. 237–.
- Book: Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. EcoArts. Weather report: art and climate change. 14 September 2007. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts. 978-0-9799007-0-9.
- Book: Ariʼel. 1994. Cultural and Scientific Relations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Web site: Jewish Enviro-Artists Have the Whole World in Their Hands. The Forward. 21 September 2014 . 11 June 2016.
- Web site: Artist Statement: Concrete Creek 1999 – 2002 – Shai Zakai. Green Museum. 2010.
- Book: Alix W. Hopkins. Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community. registration. 2005. Trust for Public Land. 978-1-932807-04-2.
- News: Nature's Social Worker, Ecological Artist Shai Zakai. Karin Kloosterman. 7 March 2009.
- News: Jean d'Arc of the Ela Valley. Dana Gilerman. 1 April 2005. Haaretz.
