Artist

Bio Samia Halaby

A pioneer of abstract painting whose art has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs throughout the world

Bio Nahil Bishara

One of the few female artists who depicted Jerusalem in the mid-20th century

Bio Salvador ‘Arnita

A leading Jerusalemite musician and composer whose output in Palestine and Lebanon includes at least 200 compositions—symphonies, concerts, orchestra works, and anthems

Armenian ceramic pottery
Video Hagop Karakashian on How the Art of Armenian Ceramics—Unique to Jerusalem—Came to Be

Hagop Karakashian’s grandfather was one of a trio of artists who originated the art of Armenian ceramics in the city of Jerusalem over a century ago. How did this come about?

Photo Album “Jerusalem Is Ahead of Me”: The Art of Kamal Boullata

A Jerusalem artist and art historian in exile whose work explored the beauty and pain of the Jerusalem he remembered

Photo Album Jumana El Husseini’s Art Expresses Her Yearning for a Lost Homeland

Through her art, Jumana El Husseini searched for the Palestine and the much-beloved Jerusalem that were denied to her during her adult life.

Bio Jumana El Husseini

A Jerusalem artist in exile whose predominant themes revolved around depicting the city of her birth

Bio Sophie Halaby

A pioneering artist of landscape watercolors whose life spanned most of the 20th century and whose work explored “the vision of Jerusalem”

Bio Kamal Boullata

A renowned Jerusalemite artist and art historian who was exiled in 1967 and spent the rest of his life creating art that would convey, and lead him back to, the city of his birth