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Artist Edna Miron Wapner works in Jerusalem. Her use of Japanese traditional brush painting techniques expresses itself by its unique use in her Hebrew calligraphy projects.
A large example of which hangs in the sanctuary of Jerusalem’s Reform synagogue , Kihilat Kol HaNishama (see gallery).
Appropriately Edna has studied and exhibited in Japan as well as California and Israel.
Edna Miron-Wapner is a Jewish Spiritual Artist and Educator working on her PhD in Expressive Arts Therapy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Her primary interest involves contributing to Jewish Education through the integration of the knowledge, experience and wisdom of Expressive Arts Therapy. Her interest is creativity and healing in Jewish education called “Expressive Kavannah”.
Edna was born in Israel and grew up in Montreal, Canada and has lived in Jerusalem since 1977 where she is an active member of a vital Progressive Jewish Community, Kol Haneshama. She has an MA in Educational Research from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and a BA from McGill University in Montreal.
As an artist with specialities in Sumi-e Painting, Calligraphy and Papermaking, she has exhibited her work over the past twenty years in museums and galleries in the US, Israel and Japan. She is the founder of two studios in Jerusalem, the first Studio Spiral, a unique intermodal Children’s Creativity Center and secondly, Studio Indigo an Adult Expressive Arts and Healing Center. She served as Artist in Residence at the Brandeis Bardin Institute,in California and has taught at the Pardes Institute, Hebrew Union College, Yakar and Kol Haneshama, the Ramah Program and JESNA in Israel.
Edna’s Web site: http://www.ednamironwapner.com/bio.html
