© Kristin Johnson Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Hello! My name is Kristin Johnson and I am an American pattern designer and artist who grew up in Washington State. I now live in San Jose, California with my wonderful family and cat. As a child I always had a passion […]
Category: Visual Artists
Meet the Artist: Galia Goodman, Ecological Jewish Artist and Hiker
This interview was conducted by Jonathan Homrighausen. © Pictures provided by Galia Goodman Jonathan Homrighausen is a calligrapher and a doctoral student in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Duke University. He is author of Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination of The Saint John’s Bible (Liturgical Press, 2018), and his own work may be seen at jdhomiecalligraphy.com. Over warm cider […]
Meet The Artist: Fanny Chodosh
Fanny Chodosh, Israeli born artist, enjoys creating beautiful personal works that move the soul. Her passion shows through inspired by spiritual motifs, architectural relics of Jerusalem. She loves the intricacy of hidden alleys with beautiful arches, mystical tunnels from biblical times, and off the beaten track spaces in the Old city. “I love archaeology and […]
Meet The Artist: Yitzchak Devor
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born in New York, grew up in Far Rockaway and am 28 years old. I grew up Orthodox and went to Yeshiva. I became more secular as a teenager and returned to Orthodoxy around the age of 23. It was a really long journey […]
Meet The Artist: Eleyor Snir of EleyOri (HEBREW)
ספרי לנו קצת על עצמך ועל הרקע שלך .(Ori – קוראים לי אליאור שניר (בקיצור נולדתי לפני 44 שנה בקיבוץ נוה-איתן בעמק בית-שאן לשבט ולמשפחה גדולה ומגוונת. אמא שלי היא סופרת ילדים ואשת חינוך ואבא שלי הוא מומחה לגידול דגים. אחרי המסלול של בית-ספר וצבא בחרתי בלימודי עיצוב ואיור במכללת “ויטל” בתל אביב. אחרי שלוש […]
Meet The Artist: Eleyor Snir of EleyOri (ENGLISH)
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Eleyor Snir (in short – Ori). I was born 44 years ago at the Kibbutz Neve Eitan in Beit Shean Valley to a large and diverse family. I am a fourth of nine children. My mother is a children’s book writer and […]
Meet The Artist: Ilana Amiel
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and raised in Hanover, Germany; graduated with a Masters from the University of West London, majoring in Advertising and Branding. I spend the last years traveling the globe and lived on at inspiring places such as Fuerteventura, London, […]
Meet The Artist: Inna Gorokhod
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Inna and I am an artist. I was born in St. Petersburg. My whole life has been associated with art. In my school every evening for 2-3 hours we were engaged in painting and drawing and decorative composition. Then I entered the […]
Meet The Artist: Igal Fedida
From an early age, self- taught, Israeli-born Igal Fedida demonstrated an intuitive penchant for the arts. Painting has always been a special process for Fedida that allowed him to draw upon his Jewish Morrocan background and intertwine art with that of the complex, universal human pursuit of spiritual truth. Fedida’s unconventional artistic style has emerged […]
Meet The Artist: Abby Korotney
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Hi, my name is Abby Davidson Korotney. I grew up in a very conservative Jewish househhold. My Grandfather was an Orthodox Rabbi and my brothers and I were immersed in Hebrew and Jewish tradition. My family valued education, reading and the arts. My Grandfather was […]