Andi Arnovitz

Andi Arnovitz was born in 1959 in Kansas City

Andi Arnovitz was born in 1959 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her father and grandmother owned a fabric store, where she spent many hours as a child. Those fabrics later inspired her art.

She earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Washington University in St. Louis. She then worked as an art director at an advertising company. After 13 years in advertising, she turned to her own art and studied painting and printmaking.

She is married to David Arnovitz, and they have 5 children. The family settled in Jerusalem, where she rented a studio at the Jerusalem Print Workshop. Her early prints showed romantic images of Jerusalem, but the Second Intifada led her to political art.

She describes herself as an activist artist and a religious feminist. Her works deal with Jewish law, the rabbinate, and relations between Arabs and Jews. They have been shown in museums in Israel, Germany and the United States.