Bracha Lavee
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Bracha Brym-Lavee is a Jerusalem-based artist
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Born Bracha Brym in Poland
, she moved to Israel
in 1957, where she grew up and studied in Tiberias. She won her first art prize at age seven in Poland, and throughout her schooling in Tiberias was known as the class artist. In 1970, after graduation of high school
and completion of military service
, she enrolled in the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, where she met her future husband, Menachem Lavee, also a designer
and artist and full partner in all of her projects. Producing felt tapestries, prints
, and her own line of wearable art
in the 80s and 90s, her themes focus on Jerusalem, Israel
, and the Bible
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Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
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Born Bracha Brym in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, she moved to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
in 1957, where she grew up and studied in Tiberias. She won her first art prize at age seven in Poland, and throughout her schooling in Tiberias was known as the class artist. In 1970, after graduation of high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
and completion of military service
Military service
Military service, in its simplest sense, is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary draft . Some nations require a specific amount of military service from every citizen...
, she enrolled in the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, where she met her future husband, Menachem Lavee, also a designer
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
and artist and full partner in all of her projects. Producing felt tapestries, prints
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
, and her own line of wearable art
Wearable art
Wearable art, also known as Artwear or "art to wear", refers to individually designed pieces of hand-made clothing or jewelry created as fine or expressive art...
in the 80s and 90s, her themes focus on Jerusalem, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, and the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
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