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Born in Israel in 1948, Edna Miron-Wapner was brought up and educated in Montreal. She returned to her family's Israeli roots in 1977 and settled in Jerusalem. She has lived there since, apart from a period in California.
As an artist with specialties in Printmaking, Sumi-e Painting, Calligraphy, and Papermaking, she has exhibited her work over the past forty years in museums and galleries in the US, Israel, Europe, Russia and Japan. Her art is spiritual, facilitated by Jewish meditation followed by spontaneous creation. As an Expressive Arts therapist and educator, Edna has created "Expressive Kavannah", an intermodal spiritual model to explore meaning and identity through the arts. She wrote and published a book describing this model, available on Amazon.com. She is the founder of two studios in Jerusalem -- Studio Spiral, a unique Children's Creativity Center, and Studio Indigo, an Adult Expressive Arts Center. She has been artist-in-residence and therapist/educator at Jewish institutes, schools and professional artists’ communities throughout the U.S, U.K, and Israel. |
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EXHIBITIONS
2016 ADIEU Migdalor Gallery, Jaffa, Israel 2012 SOUL PRINTS The Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, Israel 2008 THE OTHER SIDE OF LIFE The Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel 2003-4 DIALOGUE WITH ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS II Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, Israel 1998-9 DIALOGUE WITH ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS Yeshiva University Museum, New York City, NY The Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel Migdalor Gallery, Jaffa, Israel 1996 TRANSITIONS Sarah Einstein Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 1996 RECENT WORKS Studio Indigo, Jerusalem, Israel 1992-6 IMAGES Belgium House, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Studio Spiral, Jerusalem, Israel Gallery 130, Kitakyushu, Japan Jewish Community Center, Tokyo, Japan The Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel The Platt Gallery, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA The Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA 1990 OPEN STUDIO Santa Monica, CA 1987 SONGS OF MEDITATION Jewish Quarter Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 1981 BATIKS The Jerusalem House of Quality, Jerusalem, Israel SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 VENICE BIENNALE IN PRINTMAKING Scuola Internzionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy 2015 TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Quest Hall Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan 2014 CUTTING EDGE MASTERS Auditorio del Duomo, Florence, Italy 2014 FAITHFUL TO THE SOURCE Okashi Museum, Acre, Israel 2014 WIDE WORLD ART FAIR Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA 2013 CONTEMPORARY MASTERS V/VI Southern Nevada Museum of Art, USA 2013 FLORENCE DESIGN WEEK Palazzo Borghese, Florence Italy 2012 THE ATHENS BIENNALE OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTMAKING Hellenic American Union Gallery, Athens, Greece 2010-11 GROUP PRINTMAKING EXHIBITIONS The Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel 2009 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF GRAPHIC ARTS St. Petersburg, Russia 2000 THE SPIRITUAL IN ART Bedford Art Museum, Curator Dr. Peter London 1994 IN MEMORY OF JOYCE SCHMIDT The Visual Arts Center, Beersheva, Israel 1993 NEW MEMBERS The Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel 1986 CALLIGRAPHY '86 The Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel 1985 PEN AND PAPER The XIIth International Book Fair, Jerusalem, Israel COLLECTIONS Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY; The Brandeis Bardin Institute, CA; Kehilat Kol Kaneshama, Jerusalem; Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem; The Pardes Institute, Jerusalem; Bright Source Energy, Jerusalem FORMAL EDUCATION B.A French/Linguistics - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec M.A O.I.S.E Education - University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario C.A.G.S Expressive Arts Therapy - The European Graduate School, Leuk, Switzerland PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Association of Art Therapists; International Expressive Arts Therapy Association; The International Artists' Association; The International Association of Papermaking Artists; The Los Angeles Printmaking Society; Tel Aviv Artists House Etching Workshop PUBLICATIONS 2019 Expressive Kavannah: Creativity, Meaning and Healing, paperback book and e-book available on Amazon.com 2013-4 International Contemporary Masters Vol.6, World Wide Art Books 2012 "Expressive Kavannah", IEATA (International Expressive Arts Therapy Association) Journal 2011 International Dictionary of Artists Vol. 1, World Wide Art Books 1995 "Jerusalem" - Revue Arts et Metiers du Livre, Paris 1992 "Edna Miron-Wapner" – Rambam, The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen 1987 "Hebrew Micrographers" - Calligraphy Review 1986-7 "Hebrew Calligraphy" - Encyclopedia Judaica Year Book |
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FILMS
2017 "EXPRESSIVE KAVANNAH", directed by Paula Weiman-Kelman
1999 "DIALOGUE WITH ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS", directed by Eli Talel
1995 "IMAGES: The Art of Edna Miron-Wapner", directed by Paula Weiman-Kelman
2017 "EXPRESSIVE KAVANNAH", directed by Paula Weiman-Kelman
1999 "DIALOGUE WITH ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS", directed by Eli Talel
1995 "IMAGES: The Art of Edna Miron-Wapner", directed by Paula Weiman-Kelman
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contact edna at: emironwapner@gmail.com
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