Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery: Women Ceramic Workshop
Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery: Women Ceramic Workshop
For the last two years, the gallery is operating a ceramic workshop, which introduce and trains local Arab women in ceramic crafts . So far, over 30 women have been training, and the workshop is developing a production-line for sell, in order to sustain itself, and provide modest income to the women. The goal of the workshop is to reintroduce local lost crafts to the Arab society, and to allow unemployed women to have a source of pride in their making.
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Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery
The Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery was founded in 1996, on the initiative of local residents and artists who wanted to bring quality contemporary art to the city and its population and to exhibit original Arab and Palestinian art. With a lack of other art galleries in the Arab sector in Israel, the gallery has become an important social and cultural meeting place. Contemporary art exhibits, symposiums, creative workshops and seminars have drawn large audiences and have established the gallery as an im ...
