Dr. Yael Kaduri

Dr. Yael Kaduri is a 3D jewelry designer and a faculty member at the Visual and Material Culture Department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her current interests include parametric design, additive manufacturing processes and their hybrid combination with traditional goldsmith.

Yael holds a Ph.D in Musicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2022 she graduated from bachelor studies at the Jewelry and Fashion Department of Bezalel. She explores the new opportunities hidden in new materials and computational tools for art jewelry. Here critical projects bring digital technologies to their limits, while seeking to generate innovative craft methods.

Yael scholarly research includes, among others, digital craft and the interrelationships between music and the visual arts. Her leading publication in the later is The Oxford Handbook of Music and Image in Western Art (New York: 2016).  

Yael’s works have been presented at galleries and museums, amongst which are: Munich jewelry Week, Milan Jewelry Week, National Museum of Decorative Arts, Madrid, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, and more.