Art Education, For Life: Reflections from Omer Arbel

Doors 6 PM, talk begins 6:30 PM.

Co-founder and Creative Director of Bocci and founder of Omer Arbel Office (OAO), Omer Arbel’s wide-ranging career offers a reflection on the lasting influence of creative education on his practice, which moves fluidly between architecture, sculpture, industrial design and materials research.

Trained in architecture, Arbel's approach is grounded in critical inquiry, spatial awareness, and experimentation. His work reflects the broader premise of Art Education, for Life: that early engagement with art and creative education are not simply preparation for a particular profession, but a way of approaching ideas, materials and problems over a lifetime. Through sustained experimentation with glass, concrete, metals, and light, Arbel demonstrates how curiosity and craft can form the foundation of an evolving creative practice.

This conversation offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from Arbel about the experiences that have shaped that practice. Reaching back into childhood, he will reflect on formative encounters with art and making, and consider how they may have informed the interests, instincts and obsessions that continue to surface in his work today. For artists, designers, students and anyone curious about the creative process, the talk offers an inside look at what it means to build a life around inquiry, making and experimentation.