Migratory Schooling Education in Wartime

16 August 2024 – 10 October 2024
Artist
Ron Amir | Reli & Avner Avrahami | Michal Chelbin | Kiki Keren-Huss | Gaston Zvi Ickowicz | Yaakov Israel | Ronit Porat | Nurit Yarden | Ilia Yefimovich | Rona Yefman
Curators of the exhibition: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen, Avi Sabag Sharvit | Assistant to the curators: Tali Romem | Project coordinator: Dana Shahar
Exhibition Events

Opening: 16 August 2024 11:00 am

Following the October 7 tragedy, communities from the country’s south and north were evacuated to various locations throughout Israel at an unprecedented scale. This complex situation required the construction of alternative education systems for schoolchildren who study far from home.

At the initiative of the Musrara School and the Trump Foundation, the exhibition “Migratory Schooling” features ten projects by artists who documented the children, faculty, and the spaces which were transformed into temporary classrooms for the evacuees, using photography, video, text, and sound. The exhibition explores the architecture of the makeshift learning spaces as well as the teachers and students, who migrate between geographical locations. It seeks to make the voices of these communities heard and draw attention to different aspects related to education in wartime.

Participating communities: Kiryat Shmona • Metula • Shlomi • Upper Galilee Regional Council: Kibbutz Dan, Kibbutz Dafna, Kibbutz Kfar Giladi • Mateh Asher Regional Council: Arab al-Aramshe, Liman • Ma’ale Yosef Regional Council • settlements in the Upper Galilee and Western Galilee • Sderot • Ashkelon • Eshkol Regional Council: Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Kibbutz Kissufim, Kibbutz Magen, Kibbutz Yevul, Kibbutz Be’eri, Kibbutz Holit • Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council: Kibbutz Gevim, Kibbutz Or HaNer

Locations: Lake House Kinneret Hotel, Tiberias • GeviMizra, Kibbutz Mizra • Ramot Primary School, Haifa • Kibbutz Shefayim • NYX Hotel Tel Aviv • Solarium Dead Sea • Shibli Agricultural Farm, Umm al-Ghanam • Abraham Hostel, Tel Aviv • Enjoy Dead Sea Hotel • Mashiv HaRuach School, Bnei Akiva Ulpanit, Tel Aviv • Schools around the Sea of Galilee • Hotel Yehuda, Jerusalem • Orient Hotel, Jerusalem • The Kerem Institute for Humanistic Jewish Education, Jerusalem

We would like to thank the Trump Foundation; the Ministry of Education’s spokesperson’s office; the heads and faculties of the various spaces, who generously allowed the artists to enter their communities and enabled them to document the activity in the learning spaces. Thanks to all the individuals who were involved in the project and the many students who cooperated, told their stories, took pictures, and were photographed