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PUBLISHED BY Jewish Federation OF DELAWARE shores ARTS CULTURE WORLD RENOWNED DESIGN CRITIC SPEAKS AT BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART & DESIGN IN MEMORY OF STUART B. YOUNG By Liv Sperber Vice President for International Affairs, Bezalel Academy World renowned British design critic Alice Rawsthorn was featured as the second speaker at Bezalel Academy’s international lecture series in memory of Delaware’s Stuart B. Young.

Rawsthorn presented at the Academy’s Liv Sperber, Vice President Industrial Design in a Changing World for International Affairs conference which took place in at Bezalel Academy; Alice Rawsthorn; and Ann Saban, Jerusalem on May 1. The conference Daughter of Toni and focused on the new direction in which Stuart Young PHOTO BY MARIA SHERF industrial design is evolving, including discussions about Bio-Design, Design Edition. Her weekly design column has Congregation Beth Shalom, a contributor Thinking, and Open Design. been published in to the Jewish Federation of Delaware Rawsthorn is an award-winning design International Edition for over a decade. for more than 55 years and a steadfast critic and the author of several books supporter of Israel. He served as president, Rawsthorn is an honorary senior fellow of and articles. Her latest book, Hello World: chairman and chairman emeritus of the the with an honorary Where Design Meets Life, explores the Delaware College of Art and Design; doctorate from the University of the Arts. infuence of design on our lives – past, chairman of the Delaware State Arts She serves on the recognition committee present, and future – and was translated Council; President of the Delaware Art for numerous arts and cultural awards. into several languages. Rawsthorn’s next Museum; a board member of the National Rawsthorn has also served as a trustee on book, Design as an Attitude, will publish Conference of Christians and Jews; and the Arts Council England from 2007 to 2013. this month and focuses on the new trustee of the Wilmington Friends School. directions of design today. Bezalel Academy’s Stuart B. Young Young was also active locally with the Beyond her role as a writer and thought International series is dedicated in memory Wilmington Development Council and the leader, Rawsthorn is an infuential public of Stuart B. Young, who served on the city’s Holocaust Memorial Committee. Boards of Bezalel Academy of Arts and speaker on design and has participated Founded in 1906, the Bezalel Academy in important global events including Design both in Israel and the United States. of Arts and Design is Israel’s oldest the in Davos, Upon his sudden passing in 2014, Young’s institution of higher education and the Switzerland and TED. She began her wife, Toni dedicated the series in order to birthplace of Israel’s art culture. With career as a foreign correspondent for the expose Bezalel’s students to global thought programs ranging across the discipline, in Paris and after a fve- leaders in various arts and design. Bezalel’s graduates infuence the world year stint as the director of the Design Throughout his life, Young was an through their designs utilizing the top Museum in London, she became a design active member in Wilmington’s Jewish skills instilled within them in their time at critic for New York Times International community. He was a lifelong member of the historic art academy in Jerusalem.

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