Alyse Radenovic is a Jewish American fine artist. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Alyse has been painting since 2007. She worked in other kinds of art since 1997. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in a working-class home filled with an impressive collection of Western and Eastern art […]
Category: Visual Artists
Meet The Artist: Darius Gilmont
Photo: Courtesy of Darius Gilmont Originally from London, I did my first professional illustration work when I was about 17, when I illustrated two books. One was about Modern Jewish History and the other, Vietnamese refugees. I didn’t undergo formal art training, and read architecture at university, but always tended towards the artistic and illustrative […]
Meet The Artist: Zahava Goldstein of Purple Hamsa
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Hailing from a long line of successful Jewish artists, I am a self-taught artist who was raised in the Judean Hills of Israel. I studied ceramics in Israel for a number of years under two master artists. I have illustrated two published children’s books and […]
Meet The Artist: Shira Haivri of Shira Haivri Jewish Art
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m Shira Haivri, 36 years old, artist, wife and a mother of 4 amazing children.I come from a secular family with a mixed background of Polish and Yemenite grandparents,and was born in Hod Hasharon/Israel, where I was raised. What inspired you to become an artist? […]
Meet The Artist: Layla Blenden
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My name is Layla Blenden and I live in Jerusalem and work at Yad Vashem. In my free time, I enjoy doing anything creative – painting, drawing, baking/decorating and any other form of creativity that I can think of at the time. Why do you […]
Meet The Woodworker: Oren Hemed
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born in Israel, on the 3rd of March, 1980, to Marlene and Isaac Hemed. My mom made Aliyah in the ‘70’s, and my dad was born in Israel, though his family made Aliyah from Syria with the establishment of the state. Art has […]
Meet The Photographer: Anna Linden
Anna Linden is a photographer with about 15 years of hands-on experience. She has been working as a professional photographer since 2014, specializing in business photography. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I repatriated to Israel in 1997, and pretty much right away started my “hi-tech” path – programming in the […]
Meet The Artist: Gisela Eblagon of Proyecto Tomate
Gisela works for Gitanes SRL, an ice cream manufacturer in Rosario, Argentina. When she is not busy doing design work for the ice cream brands “YOMO”, “YO HELADOS”, and “MIO HELADOS”, she DRAWS! A lovely activity that quickly turned from a hobby into a passion.She has designed and illustrated a Pesach Haggadah in Hebrew, phonetic […]
Meet The Artist: Yamit Presman
Born in Moscow, Yamit has many talents and explored various artistic outlets including cake art and poetry, until she discovered quilling a few years ago. In her words: “I feel most alive when I’m quilling, and quilling is definitely a language of my soul”. Yamit resides in Pittsburgh with her husband and children. Tell us […]
Meet The Artist: Meredith Gould of Meditative Mosaics
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’ve had a slew of careers and wild roller-coaster-ride of a religious and spiritual journey. My life is a patchwork quilt that, with the distance of time, appears as an integrated whole. My careers in chronological order: graphic artist, sociologist, college professor, state government project […]