First Meeting
In Ink and Press
Dry point Printmaking Workshop
Friday | October 31 | 10:00–13:00
A fascinating meeting focusing on the printmaking technique of engraving, known to the art world from the Renaissance to the present day, combining a guided museum gallery tour with a hands-on printmaking workshop led by the artist Yael Buberman-Atas.
In the first part of the meeting, we will embark on a guided tour of the museum galleries with Roni Bar Sheshet, connecting the ancient and the modern through the museum’s impressive seal collection.
During the tour, we will explore the different types of seals in the ancient world, learn about their uses and symbolic meanings, and examine the link between the ancient technique and contemporary engraving printmaking.
In the second part of the meeting, we will participate in a printmaking workshop with artist Yael Buberman-Atas, offering an introduction to the direct engraving technique, done without the use of acid. This technique was employed by great artists since the 15th century, including Rembrandt.
We will work with recycled plates (Tetra Pak) and create a personal engraving using burins, ink, and a press, inspired by the museum’s exhibits.
Yael Buberman-Atas is an artist and designer, a graduate of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
She works in painting, drawing, and printmaking.
She is the recipient of the Shoshana Ish Shalom Prize for Artistic Creation (2024).
Her work was selected to participate in the London Art Biennale (2023). Over the years, she has won several international design awards, held solo exhibitions, and taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Yael lives, creates, and teaches in Israel.
Session price: 150 NIS
15% discount when registering for an additional workshop in the series (the cheaper one) – to receive the discount, contact the museum box office. Advance registration required. The fee includes materials, hot drinks, and light refreshments.
Second Meeting
“And I Adorned You with Ornaments and Put Bracelets on Your Hands”
Museum Tour Following Ancient World Jewelry and Metal Jewelry Workshop with Goldsmiths
Shirel and Gabi Tubo
Friday | November 14 | 10:00-13:00
A unique session offering insight into jewelry creation and use in Biblical lands, followed by familiarization and hands-on experience creating jewelry through metalwork, filing and embossing techniques. Led by goldsmiths Shirel and Gabi Tubol.
In the first part, we’ll take a guided museum tour following ancient jewelry-making crafts.
Jewelry has existed since the dawn of history; in ancient times it was made from materials like bones, wood, and shells, later from more precious materials like metals and gemstones.
The tour will reveal the gold, splendor, and magnificence of jewelry use in the Persian Empire and visit a stunning gallery displaying magnificent gold jewelry from ancient Greece.
We’ll continue to a goldsmithing workshop where participants will glimpse the creative workshop of goldsmith couple Shirel and Gabi Tubol.
During the workshop, participants will prepare bracelets, rings, and pendants from metal, from initial material processing to finished jewelry for daily personal use.
We’ll experience various working methods including filing, embossing, and stamping, as craftsmen traditionally created jewelry in the ancient world.
Shirel and Gabi Tubol are Jerusalem goldsmiths for 35 years, producing jewelry and Judaica in various styles and participating in numerous exhibitions in Israel and worldwide. They create and operate in the Jerusalem Product House, located in a unique historic building serving as an artistic, productive, and creative home for about 30 Jerusalem artists.
Session price: 120 NIS
15% discount when registering for additional workshop in series (on cheaper option) – contact museum cashier for discount.
Payment includes materials (metals, beads), hot drinks and light refreshments
Third Meeting
Collage Illustration Workshop
Friday | November 28 | 1000-13:00
A special encounter between letters, symbols, and images; between past and present; between the collective story and our personal one.
In the first part of the session, we will tour the museum guided by Roni Bar Sheshet, exploring the “visual communication” of the ancient world. We will learn how the design of objects in antiquity reflected the ideas behind their essence and use in daily life.
The second part will feature a hands-on workshop with illustrator and graphic designer Rinat Gilboa.
Together, we will examine the connection between text and illustration, review familiar texts, and continue them with personal writing to create our own stories. Each story will then be transformed into an illustration, crafted using a mixed-media technique based on collage and ready-made imagery. In addition to collage, we will work with layers of color, texture, stamps, and free line drawing.
The workshop will conclude with group sharing and discussion of the creations.
Rinat Gilboa – illustrator and graphic designer, owner of an independent studio in Jerusalem. She holds an M.Des from Bezalel Academy in Visual Communication and Industrial Design. She teaches at the Musrara School of Art and Society and at the Bezalel Continuing Education Unit. Her creative work connects design, illustration, and art, spanning stamps, books, exhibition design, maps, branding, and curating. Her art draws inspiration from myths, traditions, ancient cultures, and the local urban environment.
Session price: 120 NIS
15% discount when registering for additional workshop in series (on cheaper option) – contact museum cashier for discount.
Payment includes materials, hot drinks and light refreshments
Fourth Meeting
“Thus Bound”
Bookbinding Workshop
Friday | December 12 | 10:00-13:00
A fascinating encounter at the Bible Lands Museum exploring book development to its modern form and hands-on experience binding a personal book, with Tamna Serfian, museum conservator.
Since script development, humans have used a wide range of writing surfaces: clay tablets, broken pottery, walls, hides, and paper – sometimes rolled as scrolls. But when did the first codex appear? How did it develop? And why did it remain the most common medium over the years among different cultures? These are some questions we’ll answer in this special session.
In the first part, we’ll take a fascinating tour among museum exhibits, tracing ancient world writing surfaces and seeing their various representations.
In the second part, we’ll gather for a practical workshop with Tamna Serfian, where we’ll cut, fold, sew, and prepare our own leather-bound book according to the oldest preserved examples – the Coptic codices from Nag Hammadi, Egypt, dating to the third and fourth centuries CE.
Tamna Serfian, museum conservator and bookbinder for many years, studied Middle Eastern archaeology, antiquities conservation and restoration, and book arts, managing the National Library’s book conservation laboratory for twelve years.
In the current workshop, she combines her extensive knowledge and experience in these fields to build a historical and creative experience that will bring you closer to the roots of the book as we know it today and enable you to build your own special codex.
Session price: 120NIS
15% discount when registering for additional workshop in series (on cheaper option) – contact museum cashier for discount. Payment includes materials, hot drinks and light refreshments
