ABOUT MY KETUBAH ART
My journey into Ketubah art is rooted in family, tradition, and a lifelong connection to botanical beauty.
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Where My Art Began
Discover how we prioritize sustainability in our manuSome of my earliest memories are of my mother's rows of crowded plants along our windowsills surrounded by colorful paintings by my Grandmother. My mother’s love of gardening and botany, and the creativity of my grandmother, were integral to my development as a painter.
One of my first forays into being a professional artist was painting my own ketubah—a Jewish marriage contract—for my own wedding in 2018. Since then, I have created dozens of ketubahs, displayed at Kolbo Fine Judaica Gallery, that play on botanical themes in watercolors and acrylics.facturing processes, using eco-friendly materials and practices to minimize.
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Personalized With Care
Alongside traditional mediums, I experiment with texture by adding 3D elements such as ground salt, crushed mica, and layered cut-outs. For many original ketubahs, I work with the soon-to-be married couple to personalize the ketubah to reflect the local, meaningful, and personal parts of their lives. Recently, I painted a ketubah centering pink oyster mushrooms for a couple who grows them.
This dedication to the beautification of ritual objects, known in Judaism as “Hiddur Mitzvah,” also informs my other works, which strive to make the spaces around us not only visually appealing, but engaging.
ART IN COMMUNITY
Since 2020 I have had the honor of participating in multiple community art installations. In 2022 I was selected for Boston’s PaintBox program, for which I painted a colorful cactus scene on a neighborhood utility box to add some cheerfulness during our dreary winters.
In 2023, I painted two large mural panels for New Bedford’s Annual Seaport Artwalk, highlighting the marine life of Massachusetts's own Buzzard's Bay. With both of these pieces, I thoroughly enjoyed studying the intricacies of the flora and fauna so that I could properly do justice to their beauty, as well as hopefully educate onlookers in my community to their ecological importance.