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Yocheved Weinfeld

Yocheved Weinfeld is an Israeli artist and art educator who develops interactive exhibitions for children and explores Jewish heritage in her art.

born 1947Stitched works on paper and photographsJewish heritage in contemporary artInteractive exhibitions for children

Occupation: artist, painter, educator

Yocheved Weinfeld was born in 1947 in Legnica

Weinfeld was born Ewa Ernst in 1947 in Legnica, Poland, and grew up in Wrocław. Her parents, Natan and Klara Ernst, survived the war in Poland and married after it. In 1957 the family moved to Israel and settled in Givatayim.

At 16 she became a student of the artist Raffi Lavie, and her works were soon shown with the group 10+. She studied at the art teachers' college and at Tel Aviv University, then at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She later earned a master's degree from the University of Cape Town.

Her first solo show was held in 1969 at Mabat Gallery in Tel Aviv. After her mother's death and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, she began stitching paper and photographs. Some critics placed this work within body art and saw it as feminist.

She taught art at the Israel Museum, Bezalel and the Michaelis School of Art. In 1980 she moved to New York, where she designed children's exhibitions at the Jewish Museum. In 1995 she co-founded a children's museum for Jewish culture in New York, which she ran until it closed in 2011.