Anna Abramzon

Rumor has it that I started drawing before I started walking.... and as soon as I did start walking, I started traveling, sketch book in hand. I have traveled and lived all over the world. 

Most recently I spent four beautiful years living in Jerusalem, Israel where I became enchanted with the colors, imagery and mysterious spirituality of the Middle East. It was there that I first started painting Ketubahs and creating artwork for weddings. I truly love working with couples and it is my goal that every bride have a Ketubah, wedding invitation, and wedding portrait that she will keep and cherish forever. 

I am at your service, always with a smile! 

Tikva Adler

Tikva Adler experiences artwork as what some people refer to as “prayer” or “meditation” because it brings her awareness fully into the present moment. When she is creating, it is like there is no separation between her and the canvas. The resulting artwork is full of life and vibrant color. Because she gives a lot of attention to nature, mystical Judaism, environmentalism, and the “divine feminine”, her artwork often takes on these themes.  Contact her at: ARTikva@gmail.com.  Check out more of her artwork + latest adventures on her blog "Blogging While Trapped Under A Nursing Baby": http://tikvaadler.wordpress.com

Mira Angrist

Mira Angrist is a Jewish educator and a mosaics artist. She learned her techniques from Caren Fishman, a Brookline artist and has been taking classes with her for the last 3 years. She enjoys working with different materials,objects,shapes and colors and has been fascinated by the dialog that is created between objects, colors and shapes and the stories they tell.

Leah Berkowitz

Leah Rachel Berkowitz is a rabbi in Durham, NC. She created this "line" of t-shirts after being told, one too many times, "You don't look like a rabbi," while her bearded brother was mistaken for one all the time. The proceeds benefit Leah's Chesed Fund, used for everything from helping the poor to sending kids to camp. You can see more products on her store: http://www.cafepress.com/RebLeah18

Jamie Elaine Blackstone

Jamie has been passionately sewing since she was 14 years old and has explored various areas –clothing, home decor–but has found her greatest love in the art of quilting.  Designing made-to-order chuppahs for weddings all over the country, she works closely with each couple to create exactly what they have in mind. The goal is to create one-of-a-kind quilts that will make your wedding unique and be passed down from generation to generation.  Jamie lives with her husband, a teacher and young adult author, in New York City.  www.JamieElaineQuilts.com

Michael Bogdanow

While Michael Bogdanow's art cuts across cultural barriers, many of the works capture the timeless nature of biblical texts through his vibrant, contemporary style.
Michael is the featured artist for the 2010-2011/5771 Women of Reform Judaism Art Calendar and greeting cards. For purchasing and other information about the calendar, click here: www.womenofreformjudaism.orgTo learn more about Michael, his art, the calendar and more, read this Sept. 10 Jewish Advocate cover story: www.TheJewishAdvocate.com
Michael Bogdanow's art is widely exhibited and collected. Prints may be purchases directly on this site using the "All Prints" or "Search" functions in the right margin. For original paintings, reproductions on canvas and individualized commissions, contact MichaelBogdanow@gmail.com.

Marlene Burns

Marlene Burns  breathes  life into Hebrew prayers, psalms and holidays onto canvas. In her most recent series of  Judaic expressions, Marlene, an accomplished abstract expressionist, is combining her love of Judaism and the liturgy.  She prepares herself by studying the meaning and commentary before approaching the easel, and continues by chanting or singing the prayer throughout her process. Each image is paired with a translation and interpretation by the artist. For the first time, Marlene is reproducing her work as fine art greeting cards, framed reproductions and giclees.

Marlene and Ken
Kavanah press
www.kavanahpress.com

Marlene is donating a large percentage of her profits back to Homegrown Judaica to keep this site going and improving! 

Sharon Coleman

Sharon Coleman studied fine art The Rhode Island School of Design and multimedia design at New England Institute of Technology. She is a self-trained silk and fiber artist and pattern designer. Her original patterns have been featured in the book Astounding Knits and have won multiple awards.

Sharon lives in Rhode Island with her husband, her four home schooled children, and an unhealthy amount of yarn. She is Hebrew school Director and web designer at Congregation B’nai Shalom in Putnam, CT where she and her family have been active members for the past five years. You can see more of her work on her blog at cozycoleman.wordpress.com or shop her Etsy store at kippahmitzvah.etsy.com. You can also reach her at 401-647-5323. 

Liz Corman Shiro

Liz Corman Shiro has enjoyed arts and crafts for her entire life. She was taught how to do cross stitch by her mother when she was a little girl. While teaching at Kesher, an an after school Hebrew school program, she created a cross stitch chug and gained a good size following of kids ages 1st grade and up and enjoyed sharing her craft and creating Jewish designs for the students to complete. Over the last couple of years she has been busy making birth announcements for her friends mostly from kits, but also creating some of her own designs. Currently, Liz is the Education Director at Temple Tifereth Israel in Malden and tutors and teaches at various other synagogues and schools.

Becky Daroff

Becky Daroff has been painting and drawing in her free time for thirteen years. Her work attempts to capture the simple beauty of a friend's smile, the warmth of a room, the shine of a glass, or her favorite scenes around Boston. She grew up in Sharon, MA, studied art and art history in college, including a year in Florence, and she now works at Boston University and volunteers at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Please visit beckydaroff.com for more paintings and drawings.

Peggy Davis

Peggy H. Davis has a love of line, design, color and the written word which she combines in calligraphic art, inspired by the wisdom and inspiration found in folklore, poetry and traditional texts. She studied Hebrew calligraphy with Ismar David and English calligraphy with many teachers, first in Minneapolis, now in Western Massachusetts. Her studio/gallery  is on a farm called Gan Eydn, the Garden of Eden, for its beauty and its apple trees. She works on commission and sells giclée prints of her work, including invitations, ketubot, art and lettering for many purposes. She also plays the flute in the Wholesale Klezmer Band.

Amy Fagin

Amy Fagin's finely crafted illuminated ketubot reflect a broad spectrum of inspired designs. Her compositions incorporate an intellectual curiosity with a sinuous arrangement of space, pattern, symbolism and representational imagery. Her signature line of "Contemporary Ketubot" are exuberant, multi layered and thematically inspired compositions. Her "Heritage Ketubah" series reflects a new vein of inspiration for Amy which draws on the enormous diversity of cultural expression of Jewish heritage in communities world wide. Her "Miniature Ketubot" series are inspirations which are designed for couples whose taste in ketubah illumination reflects a more personal expression. These delicate miniature compositions are especially well suited for anniversary occasions. Ms Fagin's work stands out for its sophisticated yet inviting compositions designed for lifetime of appreciation 

Jerise Fogel

Jerise Fogel has been playing with lettering and design since she was very young, and has always done artwork, especially lettering of texts, for family and friends. She has taken coursework at various times of her life in many different visual arts fields, such as classes formal and informal in ceramics, calligraphy, and general and figure drawing. Beyond that, she has taken classes in painting, pigments, screenprinting, bookmaking, and Japanese woodblock printing.

In another life, Jerise holds a doctorate in Classics (Greek and Latin), and also reads several modern languages and speak German fluently. She has taught Classics for over twenty years at various colleges and universities. In yet another life, Jerise sings, plays piano and guitar, acts, and directs plays in ancient Greek and English. She also founded and conducted a Yiddish chorus in West Virginia that is still going strong. Jerise lives in NYC.

Linda Feinberg

Linda Feinberg began the study of art later in life while running her own home-based business (Z-Best Bookkeeping) in Manchester, NH. She is also a published poet, creating visual images and emotions with words. She has taken art classes in Manchester, NH with various teachers. She sold her business and retired in April of 2011 and is actively working with acrylic paints now. She is inspired by the verses and images from the Ta’Nach and liturgy and by hiking in the beautiful state of New Hampshire. She continues writing, putting up new poems as well as artwork and photos on her blog: http://avisiblevoice.blogspot.com  Linda has won several awards from the Manchester Artists Association. She has a website at: www.lindafeinberg.com

Shira Fischer

Shira Fischer is an MD/PhD candidate in epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts. In her free time, she enjoys traveling (often to Israel) and photography.
art@shirafischer.com

Sue-Ellen Flescher

Sue-Ellen Flescher teaches Art on Sundays at the Temple Congregation B'nai Jehudah religious school in Overland Park, KS to Pre-K through 6th grade students. Her focus has been on creating Judaic items that will be used in the home. Although she has always loved art and jewelry-making, she now focuses mostly on creating women's kippot and other Judaic items. In September 2010, one of her kippot was featured in Lark Book's 500 Judaica. She is a special education teacher during the school year and directs Tikvah Dancers, an Israeli Folk Dance Group.

Susan Fullenbaum

Susan Fullenbaum has created stained glass images for thirty-five years. During the last 20 years, she has concentrated on Judaic art. Her designs now depict Jewish themes. This new direction has enriched her life, which, in turn, enriches her creations. 

Susan’s three dimensions figures are well-known and featured in many of her Hanukkah menorahs.  These use stained glass, metal, and wire.  During the past several years, her work has begun to feature sandblasting and kiln work to create new and exciting creations.

Gifts for life cycle events, holidays, and special occasions can be found on her website (www.stainedglassdesigns.net).  Many of these ideas were inspired through interaction with her customers.  Susan challenges you to ask questions and come up with new ideas that can be executed in stained glass.  Susan can be reached at: stainedglassdesigns@gmail.com.

Sonia Gordon-Walinsky

Sonia Gordon-Walinsky (www.pasukart.com), is a Judaic artist and educator working in NYC.  She is passionate about using art as a medium to connect people to Torah. Through her artwork and scholarship, Sonia is reviving the kabbalistic tradition of the Name Pasuk, a resonant biblical verse that begins and ends with the first and last letters of your name. She creates this sacred artwork, as well as ketubbot, baby blessings, mezuzzot, and other liturgical artwork for all life-cycle experiences. 

Margalit Hajaj

A self-taught mosaic artist, Margalit enjoys searching, finding and collecting various materials like ceramic, tiles, china etc. to use in her creations. The joy of putting together pieces and shards to a whole new creation is like MAGIC to Margalit. Recycled materials stimulate many of her ideas in mosaic pieces that she has done. You can find more of her work here: http://margalita.co.il/

Jenny Kaufman

Jenny Kaufman is an artist and general Jack-of-all-trades living in Shaker Heights, Ohio.  She has been painting, drawing, sewing, metal working and sculpting since she was little, and always enjoys experimenting with new artistic media.  She loves creating custom personal pieces and is happy to include you via e-mail in the step by step process of creating a peice of art just for you.  Jenny is focused right now on creating illuminated texts and her on-going hobby of silversmithing.  In her free time, Jenny works as a kitchen designer and runs CYPminyan, her community's Independent Minyan and Beit Midrash.

Julie Katz

Julie Katz has always had a crafty side, and through Quilty Pleasure that craftiness found its outlet!  By day, Julie runs Everybody Wins! South Florida, a children’s literacy organization based in her hometown of Miami.  By night, she makes Quilty Pleasure gifts with love.  The full product line can be viewed at www.quiltypleasure.us.  Please feel free to contact her with any questions, or to request a custom gift.  She is always happy to hunt for that perfect fabric to make your item feel special.  julie@quiltypleasure.us  (305) 929-3858

Erela Kedem

Erela Kedem is a mosaic artist working in both Israel and Boston. She incorporates recycled materials like glasses, ceramic tiles, beads, china dishes in her works. 

Tamar King

Tamar King has been working as a calligrapher and ketubah maker since the 1970′s. Her designs combine her background as an architect and her appreciation of the clean lines of modern design with love of painting, symbols and letters.  The naturalistic motifs she uses reflect her upbringing in New England and her years of living in Jerusalem.  These two aspects of her work come together in strong compositions full of precision detail and color.

Margery Langner

Since 1990, Original Design Huppah has been custom designing one-of-a-kind, artistic huppahs, tallitot, torah covers, ark curtains, bris pillows and chairs, family trees, and other wall hangings for individuals, couples, and synagogues around the world. From precious keepsakes and family heirlooms to temple treasures, Margery and Eli Langner are artists who have the privilege to act as the conduit between the need for ritual objects and the successful performance of hiddur mitzvah, the beautification of those objects.

Aliza Lelah

Aliza Lelah grew up just outside of Chicago.  She attended the University of Vermont where she majored in Studio Art, spending a period of time in Florence, Italy.  It was there that she began exploring the use of fabric in her work.  She went on to receive an MFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007, and now maintains a studio in Denver, Colorado.  She shows her work regionally, nationally, and internationally.  

Christine Lumbroso

Christine Lumbroso has always had an artistic streak.  From the time she was very young, she was always visiting craft stores and creating jewelry or other decorations and crafts and paintings.  She also started piano at age six and music plays a big part in my life as her husband is also musical and they perform together at many functions.  


Christine's life so far has been rich and wonderful.  Together with her husband, they have traveled and lived in many countries, including Europe and S.E. Asia, the Middle East, and the USA.  They have six grown children. Since they have grown up and moved away, Christine still fills her home with people and children as they teach music and languages, including ESL, Hebrew, and French. My art today comprises mostly of our rich Jewish heritage.

Leora Mallach

Leora Mallach has been creating colorful batik fabrics since returning from a month in Ghana during the winter of 2005. Using a wax stamping technique, the wax acts as a resist to the dyes. Loving the creative process, and seeing how the colors and patterns interplay and present themselves, you can see more of her work at: http://bbbatiks.com. Outside her studio, she can be found organizing educational Jewish garden projects.

Liana Mitman

Liana Mitman is a jewelry-maker from the Boston area. Liana started making beaded jewelry at a young age, and she has since expanded into selling her pieces locally. She recently created a website, www.jewelrybyliana.com. In addition to selling customized jewelry, Liana runs children and adult jewelry-making parties. Liana is very involved in the young adult Jewish community in Boston, where she serves on the Board of the Young Leadership Division at Combined Jewish Philanthropies. She currently works as the Operations Manager at The CAYL Institute, an early childhood education public policy and leadership development organization.

Viviane Nathan

Born in Uruguay, Viviane grew up in Switzerland and Panama, and now makes her home in Jerusalem, Israel. After years of writing and publishing poetry books in Spanish, she turned to photography as a better means of expressing herself through images. Her inspiration comes from human beings and their interactions with each other, from nature and the world we inhabit.

Barbara Rucket

Barbara has been involved with fiber arts since she started knitting as a teenager. While living in Germany where her husband was stationed with the US Army, she taught herself needlepoint. Upon moving to Atlanta she has added weaving, beadwork, and stitched mixed media pieces to her repetoire. She started creating Judaica when she wove her first tallis for her son’s Bar Mitzvah. Since then she has woven many tallism and recently presented one to her grandson in honor of his Bar Mitzvah. She designed a beaded mizrach for the “6 million stitches project”. In 1998 she co-founded Peach State Stitchers (www.peachstatestitch.org), the Atlanta chapter of the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework ( www.pomegranateguild.org). She has served on both the local and national boards in various capacities. She is a founding member of the Shalom Quilters, a Judaic quilt guild in Atlanta. She has taught beadwork in Atlanta as well as a beaded mezuzah, mizrach and hamsa at the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework’s national conventions.

Elana Premack Sandler

Elana Premack Sandler is a crafter, a hoarder of yarn and beads, fabric scraps and wire and chain, someone who carries a gallon plastic baggie filled with crafty gear with her on trips.  She lives in Boston with her husband, enjoys being active in her Jewish community, participating in Iron Chef Shabbat with friends, practicing yoga for balance, and reading anything she can get her hands on.  If you'd like to read about her crafty adventures, check out her blog: http://absolutelyshameless.blogspot.com/. 

Sarah Resnick

Sarah Resnick is a Boston-area weaver focusing on hand-dyeing and Jewish ritual textiles (www.redearthweaving.com).  She wove her first tallit as a gift for her brother on his bar mitzvah, and fell in love with the slow, meditative process of designing, dyeing, and weaving tallitot.  She can be reached atsarah@redearthweaving.com.  

Adam Rhine

Adam Rhine is an artist who has been creating ornate, highly detailed Judaica watercolor paintings since 1999. His style is heavily influenced by medieval illuminated manuscripts which he combines with modern palettes and aesthetics. 

Adam’s 108-page hardcover art book, "Hebrew Illuminations" published by Sounds True Inc. features all 22 Hebrew Illuminated Letters, as well as 22 select designs from his ongoing Magen David (Star of David) series. The meanings and numerology behind each letter are written about in great detail by Adam with the help of New York-based writer/teacher Louise Temple, as well as fascinating insights into each Magen David painting.

Arielle Rogers

Ari Warnick Rogers is the artist behind Homegrown Judaica's new logo. She designs custom invitations, baby announcements, stationery, and all paper products for your special day. Her invitations are inspired by simplicity and elegance while remaining playful. Ari founded Red Turtle Invitations after graduating from Boston University in 2008 with a masters in Graphic Design - you can find her work here (http://www.redturtleinvites.com/) and here (http://www.awarnick.com).  

Erica Schultz

Erica Schultz has been a graphic design professional since 1994—and the longer she works in graphic design on the computer, the more inspired she get to play with its potential. Erica says, "I have perfect control over all the elements on the page, and don't have to worry about executing the letterforms by hand. So although I also have some training in calligraphy by hand, for me, there's no going back!" Erica specializes in Judaica (particularly based on Jewish texts) because that's what's closest to my heart. Please visit www.erica-schultz.com/judaica/ to see more of her work.

Ann Shook McKay

Ann Shook McKay, M.S. is a Judaic artist and educator in Jupiter, FL. Combining her Masters Degree from Spertus College of Judaica with classes from the Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL, and Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta, FL, has resulted in the creation of original tallitot, chuppot, challah covers, Torah Covers, fused glass, pewter, and precious metal clay pieces. She has taught seminars on Judaic Art and Embroidery for the Commission for Jewish Education in West Palm Beach, FL, as well as NewCAJE, and has led tallit and wimpel workshops for Temple Beth David, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Amy Smith

I am a handweaver living in Maine.  I learned how to weave in order to make tallitot.  I’ve been weaving them for over a decade for people all around the world.  I love the process of weaving; I love engaging with people as they go through the process of selecting the text for the atara, choosing colors for stripes, tying their own tzitzit.  My studio door is open.  Come visit. www.bluefeetstudio.com  (And Blue Feet?  I’m walking in the footsteps of the people who used to dye tzitzit tekhelet blue.)  

Dayna Spinner

Dayna Spinner is a graduate of Brandeis University where she studied Fine Art.  She is in the process of completing her master's degree in Art Education from Plymouth State University so she can teach art to all the sprites that she is lucky enough to work with daily.  She currently resides in New Hampshire where she likes to paint, take photographs and try her hand at as many different crafts as she can find. Her inspirations are always changing, thus is her style in a constant state of flux, but above all things, she loves color.

Tammy Strom

Tammy Strom is a lifelong artist and performer.  She is currently working toward a Master’s Degree in Expressive Therapies with a concentration in Music Therapy at Lesley University.  Aspiring to work with children with disabilities, Tammy believes in the transformative power of the creative arts to transcend all boundaries and communicate directly with the body, mind, and spirit.  Her involvement with the arts stems from her belief and lifelong experience that art expresses emotion beyond the capacity of words.  Each of her drawings is lovingly crafted to capture the slightest detail and emotion of the subject. Tammy demonstrates her love for  animals through her commitment to leading a vegan lifestyle and caring for her beloved rescued cat, Bellamy.

Batya Weinstock

Batya Weinstock is an independent ketubah artist living in New York City.  She works in a variety of mediums, including oil, watercolor, charcoal, acrylic, and paper-cut. She creates both traditional and more abstract custom ketubot, producing designs that resonate with each couple and represent their interests, hopes, and unique relationship. Batya works closely with each engaged couple to ensure that they feel their ketubah accurately and beautifully portrays their love.

In addition to her ketubot, Batya designs and creates personalized wedding and Bar/Bat Mitzvah invitations, wall murals, paintings, portraits, and Judaica. She paints representative pieces, often focusing on ‘the human experience’ and the emotions that accompany being open to life’s beauty. Having graduated with two undergraduate degrees, a bachelors degree in Visual Art from Columbia University, and a bachelors degree in Jewish Literature from The Jewish Theological Seminary, Batya utilizes her education and personal background to help inform her artwork.
Batya not only ensures that she has an intimate relationship with her pieces, but makes sure that her clients feel moved and inspired by the artwork that she creates for them as well.

She can be reached via email at batya@artbybatya.com or through her website: www.artbybatya.com