Margaret Ponce Israel (also known as Marge Israel) (December 24, 1929 — April 22, 1987) was a painter and ceramicist who lived and worked in New York City. She was born in 1929 in Havana, Cuba, and brought to the U.S. as an infant. She attended the High School of Music & Art in New York and Syracuse University. She studied ceramics at Greenwich House Pottery, where she eventually became an instructor. She also studied in Paris, France, at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Stanley William Hayter Graphic Art Studio, Atelier 17, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1956 Israel won both first and second prize in ceramics at the Young Americans exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, today the Museum of Arts and Design. She taught at Parsons School of Design, Gr