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Vera Tamari

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Vera Tamari
فيرا تماري
Born1945 (age 78–79)
Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel)
Other namesVira Tamari
EducationBeirut College for Women, University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Visual artist, art historian, museum founder, curator, educator
OrganizationLeague of Palestinian Artists
Known forPalestinian art and architectural history, Palestinian activist, ceramics, bas relief, sculpture, installation art, painting
MovementNew Visions

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]

Early life and education

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Vera 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]

Career

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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]

Tamari was one of the founding members of the League of Palestinian Artists (Arabic: رابطة الفنانين الفلسطينيين) art collective in 1973, the other founding artists included Karim Dabbah, Taysir Sharaf, Nabil Anani, Kamel Mughanni, Tayseer Barakat, Fathi Ghabin, Issam Badr, Suleiman Mansour, Fatin Tubasi, Samira Badran, and Yusuf Duwayk.[7] The group wanted to created Palestinian visual art on native land.[7] She has also been a founding member of the Palestinian art movement, New Visions (Arabic: نحو التجريب والإبداء, romanized: Nahwa al-Tajrib wa al-Ibda').[8] In 1987, the New Visions art group was founded by Tamari, Tayseer Barakat, Sliman Mansour, and Nabil Anani.[9][10][11] As a group the members of New Visions had pledge to make art with naturally found materials, in order to divest from spending money on Israeli art supplies.[11]

Publications

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "فيرا تماري". Darat Al Funun, Khalid Shoman Foundation (in Arabic). Archived from the original on April 27, 2022.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b "Vladimir Tamari". Birzeit Museum. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b "فيرا تماري". متحف جامعة بيرزيت (in Arabic). Archived from the original on November 18, 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Palestinian Visual Arts (III)". Palquest. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  8. ^ Kadi, Samar. "How Palestinian art evolved under siege". Arab Weekly (AW). Archived from the original on 2024-07-24. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  9. ^ Aboubakr, Randa; Freitag, Ulrike; Jurkiewicz, Sarah; Ait-Mansour, Hicham (2021-04-06). Spaces of Participation: Dynamics of Social and Political Change in the Arab World. American University in Cairo Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-64903-053-5.
  10. ^ Ankori, Gannit (2006). Palestinian Art. pp. 223. ISBN 978-1861892591.
  11. ^ a b Anani, Yazid; Toukan, Hanan (2014). "On Delusion, Art, and Urban Desires in Palestine Today: An Interview with Yazid Anani". The Arab Studies Journal. 22 (1): 208–229. ISSN 1083-4753. JSTOR 24877904.
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