Vera Tamari

Vera Tamari was born in 1945, in Jerusalem, into a Palestinian Christian family originally from Jaffa. Her mother Margo Dabbas was a visual artist, as well as her older brother Vladimir Tamari (1942–2017). She was three years old in 1948 during the Nakba, and her family moved to Jaffa temporarily. 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. Additionally she had studied ceramics from 1972 to 1974 in Florence, Italy. == Career ==

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. The group wanted to created Palestinian visual art on native land. In 1987, the New Visions art group was founded by Tamari, Tayseer Barakat, Sliman Mansour, and Nabil Anani. 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. == Publications ==