Vera Tamari (Arabic: فيرا تماري; born 1945) is a Palestinian visual artist, art historian, curator and educator. She is known for artwork in ceramics, sculpture, painting, and installation art. Tamari taught at Birzeit University for many years. She founded the Birzeit Museum of Ethnography and Art. Tamari lives in Ramallah, West Bank.[1]
Vera Tamari | |
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فيرا تماري | |
| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel) |
| Other names | Vira Tamari |
| Education | Beirut College for Women, University of Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Visual artist, art historian, museum founder, curator, educator |
| Known for | Palestinian art and architectural history, Palestinian activist, ceramics, sculpture, installation art, painting |
| Movement | Modernism, New Visions |
Biography
editVera Tamari was born in 1945, in Jerusalem, to parents from Jaffa.[2] Her mother Margo Dabbas was a visual artist, as well as her older brother Vladimir Tamari (1942–2017).[3][4] She was three years old in 1948 during the Nakba, and her family moved to Jaffa temporarily.[3][4][5]
She received a B.A. degree in 1966 in fine arts from Beirut College for Women (now the Lebanese American University); and received a M.Phil. degree in 1984 in Islamic art and architecture from the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.[2][3] Additionally she had studied ceramics from 1972 to 1974 in Florence, Italy.[2]
Tamari joined the faculty in the architecture department at Birzeit University in 1986, where she taught art history and visual communication for nearly twenty years.[3] She founded the Birzeit Museum of Ethnography and Art in 2005 in Birzeit, West Bank; and the Virtual Communication Gallery, which operated from 2005 until 2010, to facilitate art cultural exchange with the Palestinian diaspora.[6][1]
Tamari has worked in ceramics, sculpture, and installation art. Her artwork is a nod to Palestinian ceramics history, and touches on themes of identity and memory.[2][6] She has been a founding member of the Palestinian art movement, New Visions (Arabic: نحو التجريب والإبداء, romanized: Nahwa al-Tajrib wa al-Ibda').[7]
Publications
edit- Amiry, Suad; Tamari, Vera (1 January 1989). The Palestinian Village Home. Trustees of the British Museum. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7141-1599-3.
References
edit- ^ a b "فيرا تماري". Darat Al Funun, Khalid Shoman Foundation (in Arabic). Archived from the original on April 27, 2022.
- ^ a b c d Sherwell, Tina (September 5, 2016). "Tamari, Vera (1945–)". Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM916-1. Archived from the original on 2024-04-24. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
- ^ a b c d Voskirchian, Talin (October 16, 2023). "فيرا تماري: حياة من أجل الفن الفلسطيني" [Vera Tamari: A Life for Palestinian Art]. مراجعة مركز (Markaz Review) (in Arabic). Archived from the original on October 17, 2023.
- ^ a b "Vladimir Tamari". Birzeit Museum. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
- ^ Zidane, Badiaa (April 25, 2024). "فيرا تماري تسرد ذكريات أسرتها المسكونة بالعودة!" [Vera Tamari Recounts Her Family's Haunted Memories of Returning]. Al Ayam (in Arabic). Archived from the original on June 9, 2024.
- ^ a b "فيرا تماري". متحف جامعة بيرزيت (in Arabic). Archived from the original on November 18, 2023.
- ^ Kadi, Samar. "How Palestinian art evolved under siege". Arab Weekly (AW). Archived from the original on 2024-07-24. Retrieved 2024-12-13.