Shai Zakai
{{Short description|Israeli photographer and artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Shai Zakai
שי זכאי
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1957}}
| birth_place = Tel Aviv, Israel
| nationality = Israeli
| alma_mater = Hadassah Academic College
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
| known_for = Photography
}}
Shai Zakai ({{Langx|he|שי זכאי}}) is a photographer, artist, and ecological activist known for her artworks involving water reclamation.{{cite book|author=Mark Cheetham|title=Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RuRLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT237|date=15 February 2018|publisher=Penn State University Press|isbn=978-0-271-08140-3|pages=237–}}{{cite book|author1=Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art|author2=EcoArts|title=Weather report: art and climate change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4iRKAQAAIAAJ|date=14 September 2007|publisher=Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts|isbn=978-0-9799007-0-9}}
Life
Zakai was born in Tel Aviv in 1957. She studied at Hadassah College, Jerusalem and at Hebrew University.{{cite book|title=Ariʼel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbgKK2LRoBcC|year=1994|publisher=Cultural and Scientific Relations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}
Work
Zakai's best-known piece of art is Concrete Creek, a three-year project started in 1999 that documented the cleanup of a concrete-polluted creek in the Valley of Elah. The piece includes video and photo documentary of the cleanup, as well as a sculpture created from the cleaned-up waste.{{Cite web|url=http://forward.com/culture/205884/jewish-enviro-artists-have-the-whole-world-in-thei/|title=Jewish Enviro-Artists Have the Whole World in Their Hands|website=The Forward|date=21 September 2014 |access-date=11 June 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_content/ct_id-40__artist_id-18.html|title=Artist Statement: Concrete Creek 1999 – 2002 – Shai Zakai|publisher=Green Museum|year=2010}}{{cite book|author=Alix W. Hopkins|title=Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community|url=https://archive.org/details/groundswell00alix|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Trust for Public Land|isbn=978-1-932807-04-2}}
Zakai founded the Israeli Forum for Ecological Art in 1999 to encourage the development of ecological art in Israel and the world.{{cite news|url=http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/03/shai-zakai-ecological-art/|title=Nature's Social Worker, Ecological Artist Shai Zakai|author=Karin Kloosterman|date=7 March 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/leisure/jean-d-arc-of-the-ela-valley-1.154812|title=Jean d'Arc of the Ela Valley|author=Dana Gilerman|date=1 April 2005|work=Haaretz}}
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Category:Israeli women artists
Category:Israeli environmentalists
Category:Israeli women environmentalists
Category:Artists from Tel Aviv
Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Category:Environmental artists
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