Photo: Courtesy of Miriam Cocker Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I come from a very creative family. My mum moonlights as a print maker and textile artist, my dad is a nature writer and my sister is a ceramic artist and designer. We were both encouraged from a really young […]
Tag: Textile Artist
Meet the Artist: Tzipporah Johnston
Photo: Courtesy of Tzipporah Johnston Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, but moved around a lot in my early twenties, including four years in Israel. A couple of years ago I moved back to Edinburgh and started concentrating on my art. I have an academic, […]
Meet the Judaica Artist & Textile Designer: Doron Zeevi
Photo: Courtesy of Doron Zeevi / Photographer: Daniel Lailah Tell us a little about yourself and your background. Doron Zeevi, a 45 year old textile and fashion designer graduating from the Department of Textile Design and Master of Design at Shenkar College in Ramat Gan. In the studio, I integrate fashion design for commercial companies […]
Meet The Artist & Designer: Elizabeth Ehrlich of Kids Kippot
Photo: Courtesy of Elizabeth Ehrlich Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am a small business owner, wife and mother of four. I have a degree in Chemistry and Theater from Wesleyan University. I spent 6 years as a chemist working for a large Pharmaceutical company before having children. I took […]
Meet The Artist: Kimberley Tornoe of Pixels and Fluff
© 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 […]
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 […]