Education | CCA: Tel Aviv-Yafo

ABOUT

The Department of Education, Learning and Art Research at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo offers to connect contemporary art with audiences and communities, while exploring art’s place in everyday life. Our programmes are grounded in experiential, practice-based learning that brings together creating, research, and shared inquiry. Rather than learning about art alone, we invite participants to learn with artists — to encounter new ways of observing the world and to imagine how to take an active role within it.

The department’s activities include guided tours, workshops, screenings, school programmes, and community initiatives in the forum outside the center. Across these scopes, participants engage with contemporary art through different methods of learning, exploration, and dialogue, developed in collaboration with artists, schools, academic institutions, and community organisations.

OUR PROGRAMS

The Rywkind Ben Zour Grant for Education and Community constitutes a fundamental component of CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo’s operations, allowing the realization of ambitious exhibitions and public programs. Initiated in 2023 by Iris Rywkind Ben Zour and Eran Ben Zour, long-time patrons of the Center, the grant consists of a 100,000 ₪ yearly donation and is directed to the annual exhibition program and its related public programs, which includes events and activities such as mentoring workshops, lectures, meetings, discussions, roundtables and panels. Focused on projects that have a “ripple effect” within the field of education – projects with a high level of participation and engagement – the grant aims at benefiting the artist(s) creating the project, the artistic community – specifically art school students and graduates – as well as society at large. Usually directed to one exhibition conceived by an Israeli artist and one by a non-Israeli artist, the granted projects are selected by the patrons from the annual exhibition program.

GRANT RECIPIANTS

ETTI ABERGEL: MEMOIR

2023

The practice of Etti Abergel (*1960, Tivon, where she lives and works) sets up a dynamic relationship between installation and sculpture. Her works are not only conceived for the site but are largely made on site, whereby the exhibition space becomes a lived-in, breathing environment.

Etti Abergel is the first recipient of The Rywkind Ben Zour Grant for Education and Community

To receive more details about our education program, please email education@cca.org.il.

SATURDAY KIDS LAB

A guided tour and a hands-on workshop inspired by the current exhibitions on view. A bimonthly Saturday morning workshop designated for children aged 6–10 is led by artist Eden Bennett. Each session includes a tour of the exhibitions, guided screenings of works from the video archive library, and small-group creative workshop. The workshops are designed to encourage discussion, independent thinking, creative experimentation, and active exploration inspired by encounters with Israeli and international artworks.

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP

We develop ongoing collaborations with municipal and regional schools, high school art majors, bringing artists and artistic research into classroom settings. These partnerships include long-term work with high school art programmes across the city, in-depth engagement with the center’s video archive library, and development of artistic projects adapted to be held inside the classrooms.

GUIDED TOURS

Exhibition tours are offered in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, and are designed to create meaningful encounters mediating artists’ practices and diverse audiences, elderly and young. Alongside public tours, we offer customised visits tailored to the needs and ages of specific groups, focusing on key themes emerging from the exhibitions. Tours may also include screenings from the center’s unique video archive library, as well as guided walks in the surrounding area that explore art in the public sphere. Groups interested in booking a tour are invited to contact us.

CCA’S FORUM

Our forum's programme focuses on community-based artistic activity in the center’s immediate surroundings. Developed together with local residents and organisations, it offers outdoor workshops, screenings, and family-friendly events in collaboration with the neighbouring Drahi Community Center.

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THE RYWKIND BEN ZOUR GRANT FOR ART, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY

“The Rywkind Ben Zour Grant for Art, Education and Community” at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo was initiated by the Center’s Board Member, Iris Rywkind Ben Zour, together with her spouse, Eran Ben Zour. The grant includes an annual donation of 100,000₪ and is intended for the Center’s annual exhibition program and related events and activities that emphasize education and community. This is a new and unique project that invites art students to the front stage by participating in mentoring sessions with the artists exhibiting at CCA and taking an active part as collaborators in the making of their exhibitions. In addition to that, the Grant will support master classes, talks, workshops, lectures, meetings, discussions, round tables, panels, and special educational programs that appeal to a variety of communities ranging from school students and graduates to teenagers and adults. Last but not least the Grant gives the opportunity to witness the unique liaison between the artist and the curator and to have a direct experience of their dialogue. Such an opportunity also gives a true understanding of the often-invisible work of the curator within the context of solo exhibitions by contemporary living artists which include new commissions and productions. Read more

The current recipient of the Rivkind Ben Tzur Grant for Art, Education, and Community is: Nardeen Srouji