Past Gallery Exhibits

"As an artist, the city of Jerusalem captivates me with its beauty from its amazing landmarks to its beautiful hills and valleys filled with olive and orange trees... I consider my paintings as visual poems, poems of hope, poems of love and poems that capture expression and human emotions."

Glass artist Corinne Whitlatch presents glass wall sculptures that reflect her travels in Palestine and the Middle East, and her thoughts on the peace these lands seek.

"Undefeated Despair: Precarity, Public Art and Solidarity in Palestine and Lebanon, by Break the Silence Media and Art Project includes exhibitions from A Tale of Two Cities, The Olympia-Rafa Solidarity Mural Project (ORSMP), The Maia Mural Brigade, and Mourning & Action: Sabra-Shatila Commemorative Mural Project.

Experience Bud Hensgen’s 2011 tour of Palestine, culminating in a series of 14 paintings that reflect his impressions on the injustice he found there.

Lukman Ahmad, a Kurdish self-taught artist who paints professionally, has worked in fine arts and graphic design since 1986. Having exhibited extensively in Syria and Turkey as well as Switzerland, he has continued his artistic career since coming to the U.S.

Photographer Andrew Courtney showcases the African Palestinian community of Jerusalem which lies in the heart of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. African Palestinians continue to be active in the resistance process for the Palestinian national struggle and many have been political prisoners in Israeli jails. Others are active with the Palestinian Authority.

The Jerusalem Fund Gallery hosted its first exhibit by Oregon artist Anne Barber–Shams. Barber–Shams explores the depths of the mihrab and its significance in the three monotheistic cultures of Andalusian Spain, in jewel-like paintings steeped in the culture of the Golden Age of El-Andalus.

More than a romantic idea, Palestinians' cultivation of their land contains the seeds of resistance. Walk the fields through Vivien Sansour's photographs, experience this relationship of farmer to land, see how the old ways of planting and harvesting, of cooking the old recipes, form an historical continuum, the fruits of their labors feeding the body and the soul of Palestine today.

Featuring the graphic art of Rajie Cook, with the video of special guest, performance poet and human rights activist Remi Kanazi, from New York City, who performed 29 June.

Mona El Bayoumi, born in Alexandria, Egypt, had tremendous exposure to issues of social justice around the world and in the United States, and it is these themes that permeate and guide her work as an artist.

“FROM THERE” is a portfolio of memories by Palestinian artist Manal Deeb in an attempt to interpret the known versus the unknown of finding home, self, identity, and the challenge it presents in the creation of art.

Artist Helen Zughaib presents new work in new media in her first solo exhibition at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery since her sold out exhibition, Stories My Father Told Me.

Suwarna, meaning “our pictures” in Arabic, is an exhibition of photography taken by the participants in “Triple Exposure,” a public art project at Tomorrow’s Youth Organization (TYO) in Nablus in the northern West Bank, in which Palestinian boys and girls, ages 10 to 16, use their cameras to capture their homes, neighborhoods, schools, friends, hobbies and daily moments of beauty.

The Kashmir shawl has been characterized by the boteh (or buta, meaning flower), the principal motif with which the shawl is associated. This repetitive curvilinear shape has been known by many names since its first appearance on shawls in the eighteenth century - most famously called paisley.

Jewelry designer Suad Raja showcases a collection of Yemeni-inspired silver jewelry. Ms. Raja’s contemporary jewelry creations preserve the mystical, spiritual and social symbolism inherent in Yemeni and Arab art and culture.

Palestinian-Texan artist Adam Chamy explores identity, myth, and home through a series of family portraits and installation works that weave themes of migration, roots, and belonging.

New Jersey photographer Bassima Mustafa's 'Whispers of Palestine' revisits her family's olive groves, to trace Palestine through its land and architecture, which she feels are integral to understanding the country and its history.

In this work Nadira Araj used playing cards to form the set of each of the UN Security Council (SC) resolutions concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

A wide range of Gallery artists share their thoughts and feelings about the Separation Wall in Palestine through sculpture, paintings, photographs and film.

Exhibiting for the first time in the United States, Syrian artist Adib Fattal’s graphic works at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery colorfully interpret the Arab world. People, architecture and nature are fitted together in an intricate mosaic of color and form that creates an image of life and movement greater than the sum of its parts.