Lecturer, Head of Jewish Art track in the Teacher Education program

Dr. Noam Topelberg

Lecturer, Head of Jewish Art track in the Teacher Education program
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EDUCATION.

  • 2021 Mandel leadership institute Program for Academic Leadership in Education: From Theory to Practice Excellence Program
  • 2017 Ph.D., Department of Jewish Art, Bar Ilan university Thesis: The Iconography of Sacrifice in War from the 1970s in the Work of Three Israeli Women Artists – Mina Siselman, Bianca Eshel Gershuni and Tamar Geter Supervisor: Prof. Yaniv Bracha
  • 2005 M.A., History of Art, Tel-Aviv university
  • 2004 Teaching of gifted and outstanding students (Certificate studies), Tel-Aviv university
  • 1999 Curating (Certificate studies), University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv university
  • 1995 B.A. Dual degree program in Film and Musicology, Tel-Aviv university

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS:

  • 2020–2021 Coordination and facilitation of departmental seminar, department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University.
  • 2017-2020 Writer of High school Curriculum and Textbooks for the Design Arts department, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education.
  • 2012-2018 Chief curator of Ness Ziona Municipal Gallery, Yad LaBanim House
  • 2010- present National Instructor of Design Arts department, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education.
  • 2006-2014 Chief Content Writer and editor of textbook and websites of the Design Arts department, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of education.
  • 2014-2020 Art history teacher, Bistritzki Ort for Sciences and Arts, Ramla.
  • 1998-2018 Teacher and Head of art department, Gymnasia Realit Highschool, Rishon Le Zion.
Awards
  • 2013 BIU Excellence Scholarship
  • 2012 BIU Encouragement Scholarship
Publications

Refereed Publications

  • Topelberg, N., "Amira Ziyan, Hiding in the Light: A Synergy of Contrasts as a Visual Code of “Otherness”" Arts 11, no. 5: 102, 2022.
  • Topelberg, N., “Synergy circles, a conversation with Amira Ziyan”, Art and research, Bulletin of Gershon and Judith Leiber Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, Issue 6, 2019, pp, 19-23.
  • Topelberg, N., “What? Does the Bird Care?! … Between equanimity and longing in the work and teaching of Mariana Corol”, Art and research, Bulletin of Gershon and Judith Leiber Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 3-11.

Scientific Conferences

  • Amira Ziyan, Hiding in the Light: A Synergy of Contrasts as a Visual Code of “Otherness” in Israeli Art, 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies, August, 8th, 2022. "Cracking the Visual Code: Literacy and Teaching in the Age of Visual Culture", Inter-university symposium "Amanut veḥinuch: toldot vetoladot" [Art and Education: History and Consequences], Bar-Ilan University, July 7th, 2021.

 

Non-Refereed Publications

  • Topelberg, N., High school Textbooks (Part 1: Fundamentals of visual language, Part 2 – “Encounters of the visual type in the technological age": Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4), ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2018.
  • Topelberg, N., High school Curriculum: Part 2 – “visual close Encounters in the technological age”, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2018. Topelberg, N., High school Curriculum: Part 1 – “Fundamentals of visual language”, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2018.
  • Topelberg, N., Art movements of the 19th century, Textbook for second study unit, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2010.
  • Topelberg, N., Understanding Art Textbook for first study unit, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education, 2009. 400 encyclopedic and dictionary entries in official websites of Design Arts department, ICT and Information Systems Administration, Israel Ministry of Education: "Visual close encounters", “Visual Close encounters – Time Travel”, "Sustainability in design, art and architecture", 2006 – 2014.
Courses
  • Methodology of Teaching
  • Instructional Training Workshop
  • Clinical Training Practicum
  • Digital learning and teaching
  • Avant-garde - theory and practice
  • Female Artists - from the margins to the center
  • The Visual Code: Art in the Age of Digital Culture
Fields of Expertise

 

  • Visual Culture
  • Visual Codes
  • Visual Literacy
  • Philosophy of Art History of Art
  • Art and Education

Last Updated Date : 10/01/2023