The Hagar Bareket Foundation Scholarship
Hagar Bareket, a promising and talented Israeli illustrator, passed away on Rosh Hashanah, September 20, 2020. She was just 27. Hagar was a graduate of the illustration and animation track of Shenkar’s Department of Visual Communication in 2019.
Hagar’s family established the Hagar Bareket Foundation in her memory in 2020. The foundation seeks to promote excellence among illustrators by awarding scholarships and prizes at academic institutions and in collaborations with illustration events in Israel.
Once a year, the foundation awards the Hagar Scholarship at Shenkar’s Department of Visual Communication, in the illustration and animation track where Hagar studied.
Illustration by scholarship winner Or Yehezkel
All third-year students in the program are invited by the foundation and the department faculty to apply by submitting their portfolios from that academic year.
The scholarship winners are selected by a committee of professors from the department and a representative from the foundation as an observer.
As a foundation that fosters excellence, and in the spirit of Hagar’s values, the committee weighs the personal learning processes of each candidate and their motivation to realize their inner potential, dare, explore, and experiment in the framework of their studies.
Illustration by scholarship winner Aviv Zadok
Around the time of the ceremony for awarding the scholarship, the Department of Visual Communication holds an exhibition that displays the works of the scholarship winners alongside Hagar’s works.
In the 2020/21 academic year, the scholarship was awarded to three students from the department: Or Yehezkel and Yana Eskin, who won the excellence scholarship for illustration, and Eden Beck, who won the excellence scholarship for animation.
Illustration by scholarship winner Susan Bly
In the 2021/22 academic year the scholarship was awarded to Rotem Codish, Anastasia Kostyuk and Nir Waldman.
In the 2022/23 academic year the scholarship was awarded to Aviv Zadok, Susan Bly and Shachar Hos.
Read more about Hagar and the foundation on their website — https://www.hagarbkt-foundation.org/.
At the top of the page: an illustration by Hagar Bareket
