© Pixels and Fluff Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Jewish parents that emigrated from London, England in 1967. I have an older sister that also emigrated before I was born. My childhood was very happy and colorful growing up in […]
Tag: Textile Art
Meet The Artist: Ellen November
© Ellen November Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. Drawing on the graphic nature of maps, my fiber art is cartographic in nature. Art quilts allow me to combine my skills in illustration, photography, graphic design and quilting. A recent project was a series of work based on interpretations of the Rand […]
Meet The Artist: Chana Gamliel of My Parochet
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m Chana Gamliel, textile Judaica artist, wife and mother to five awesome kids, keneynehora! My story begins over 100 years ago, in a small town in northern Morocco- Ksar el-Kebir. Rabbi Itzchak Benhaim, my paternal great-grandfather, was a Sofer scribe who slaughtered his own cows […]
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: 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: Barbara Thiede of Not My Brother’s Kippah
I am a professor of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte in North Carolina and director of the graduate studies program in that department. I teach Jewish history, courses on antisemitism, the marketing of the Holocaust and a wide assortment of classes on Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). I also teach history and Tanakh for the seminary where […]
Meet The Artist: Laura Gamliel of KippArt by Laura
I’m Laura Gamliel from London and I’m married with 2 young children who I work around. My professional accomplishment is making my own business with something I absolutely love doing, something that grounds me and makes me feel amazing! I am an artist and I make personalised Kippot, tzitzit and bags. I am called KippArt […]
Meet The Artist: Claudia Fehr-Levin
Claudia Fehr-Levin is an Art Teacher, Children’s Book Illustrator, and the owner and sole designer of Cloudscape Designs. She creates hand painted T-Shirts, baby clothing, greeting cards, Judaica, dream catchers, prayer flags, T-Shirt necklaces, and many more items. She is passionate about photography and spending time with her four gorgeous children, who inspire here and […]
Meet The Artist: Miriam of Miriam Judaica
Photo: Courtesy of Miriam Judaica Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. My full name is Zabnenkova Olha Yurievna and my Hebrew name is Miriam. I was born on April 23, 1986 into a military family. After finishing highschool (2003), I started by studies at “The Belarusian State Economic University” and attended […]