Ketubah Artists

Gad Almaliah
Gad Almaliah creates hand-crafted metal enhancement ketubot with distictive, original designs and handwritten calligraphy. These museum quality Ketubot will be treasured forever.

Linda Altschuler
Linda developed her talents exploring printmaking, drawing,  painting, sculpture and art history.

Simcha Back
Simcha Back, a largely self-taught artist, developed his talent while still a Yeshiva student.

Debra Band
Debra's papercuts are based on Judaic themes, but the common thread running through them is her deep love of Jewish literature——ranging from the Ta'NaKH (Hebrew Bible) to the Talmud and midrashic literature (rabbinic legend) through medieval Sephardic secular poetry to modern Hebrew literature.

Vita Barth
Vita is a multifaceted artist who has worked in a wide range of media. Her early mosaics were a precursor to the magnificent quilted fabric pieces that she creates today. She has a facility with paints, pencils, and inks that, in combination with her impeccable sense of color and design, result in artwork of distinction.

Stephanie Caplan
Stephanie Caplan's Ketubot takes the art form into the 21st century.

Mickie Klugman-Caspi
Mickie Klugman-Caspi is an Israeli-American artist and calligrapher specializing in Judaica since 1980. Her hundreds of original designs are reproduced on ketubot, greeting cards, Judaic art prints, calendars and more. Among the many sources that inspire Mickie's delicate watercolor designs are traditional Jewish motifs, Persian and Arabic illumination, contemporary graphics, as well as art nouveau and art deco. Being an avid gardener, she loves to incorporate the beauty of nature into much of her artwork.

Judith Citron
Judith's classical style combined with traditional Judaic motifs create timeless works of art.  Her  magnificent calligraphy and designs are accented with gold and silver foil . Each ketubah is issued in a limited edition and are reproduced on archival quality paper to assure  enduring beauty and enjoyment.

Peggy Davis
Peggy H. Davis has been creating unique ketubot since 1980. They range in style from classic to contemporary and include a variety of techniques and materials.

Rachel Deitsch
Deitsch's artistry is evident in all her ketubot. Her painting and illustrations are filled with creativity and thought about the marriage ceremony Her connection to her work and the young couples that buy it, bring her great satisfaction

Amy Fagin

Amy Fagin's finely crafted illuminated ketubot reflect a broad spectrum of inspired designs.  Her compositions incorporate an intellectual curiosity with a sinuous  arrangement of space, pattern, symbolism and representational imagery.  Her signature  line of "Contemporary Ketubot" are exuberant, multi layered and thematically inspired compositions.  Her "Heritage Ketubah" series reflects a new vein of inspiration for Amy which draws on the enormous diversity of cultural expression of Jewish heritage in communities world wide.  

Joanne Fink
Joanne Fink is a noted designer, teacher and writer. Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, Joanne has pursued her lifelong interests in lettering and greeting cards. A consultant to the stationery and gift industy, she also art directs and designs lines of greeting cards, paper products and giftware. Joanne has received two coveted "Louie Awards" for her work.

Howard Fox
Fox's work is an introduction to his life. His colors, his imagery, his detail is filled with memories and life experience. His love of Israel and architecture are symbolic to his ketuba.The shapes and dreaminess of his ketuba are filled with spirit and commitment.

Suzy Friedman
Friedman creates distinct special ketubot using Judaic themes. Each piece reflects Suzy's love of Judaism and its traditions. For over 25 years Suzy has been using her artistic talent in many medium. Her work can be found in Synagogues and homes throughout the states.

Archie Granot
Archie Granot is internationally renowned for his papercut artistry. His innovative use of asymmetry and multiple layering, have added a modern edge to this very traditional art form and have resulted in Mr. Granot's wonderful creations. He has recently produced limited edition lithographs including the ketubot shown below. His work is displayed in collections around the world.

Karla Gudeon
Karla Gudeon is a storyteller. She culls her images from her own cultural heritage and family lore.  Her chosen medium, the limited edition dry-point engraving, allows her work to circulate to an ever widening circle of collectors and admirers. Each print, hand-watercolored in bright, rich hues, remains truly unique. The imagery, interpretations, and stories embodied in these works touch the soul and warm the heart of the observer.

Robin Hall
Not many people can boast that they show students yoga moves in Hebrew letters. But that is one of the many talents of Robin, Her first calligraphy class was aat age 16. Her ketubot have been featured in New York exhibitions. Hall's illumination and calligraphy is magnificent and truly distinctive. Robin states, "I work with people as far as their heart goes".

Ardyn Halter
Ardyn Halter's work is dedicated to the concept of continuity within Jewish iconographic tradition. This means both drawing on the rich fund of influences, cultural and ethnographic elements that have contributed to the aesthetic in Jewish life over the centuries, and, at the same time, looking ahead, fusing the past in new designs of the present. The ketuba designs convey a sense of positive, life-enhancing values, of joy or pleasure in the continuity of Jewish Life and values.

Pamela Feldman Hill

Deborah Kaplan
Deborah Kaplan is one of the country's preeminent calligraphers. She is an alumna of the Philadelphia College of Art (now called the Philadelphia University of the Arts) with a major in illustration. She has worked as a calligrapher since 1975 and has studied with several of the world's top calligraphers. She is a founding member of the Philadelphia Calligraphers' Society and since 1981 has been teaching others her love for the written word.

Nishima Kaplan
In 1998, Nishima created her first ketubah as a wedding gift for a friend. Since then, her ketubahs have graced throusands of homes. She is devoted to creating new art with Rabbis on exciting, cutting-edge texts. She believes that marriage is an artform, love is the paint, and the couple is the canvas.

Sivia Katz
Sivia Katz IS THE contemporary ketubah pioneer. She is a fine artist who's artwork has been exhibited all over the world. Sivia paints on everything. She just finished painting tiles for the Whitehouse Hanukkah party. Her colors, illustrations and symbolism is her story of love, life, peace, tsedekah and contentment.

Jonathan Kremer
Jonathan is an expressive graphic designer and Hebrew calligraphic artist whose work is informed by a strong background in Jewish study and is characterized by a keen sensitivity to lettering and design. Beautifully designed and meticulously produced, his ketubot blend historical decorative motifs and exquisite lettering with contemporary aesthetics. Each ketubah is issued in a limited edition on archival-quality paper to assure enduring beauty and enjoyment.

Patty Shaivitz Leve
Patty Shaivitz Leve graduated from Cooper Union with a BFA in graphic design. Patty Leve began her serious, lifelong study of calligraphy. She has been creating custom ketubot for individuals since 1981, and her work resides in private collections in the United States and Israel. She combines her love of Judaism and its rich heritage with her lifelong interest in calligraphy and illuminated manuscripts to create her unique style of ketubot.

Tamar Messer
Tamar is a well-known and loved Israeli artist. The distinct, vivid, colorful style of her work draws upon a spirit of vitality that at speaks directly to the heart.  The landscape and animal imagery, together with the vivid colors and light in Tamar's work are a reflection of the artist's imagination and influence of the Holy Land from which these Ketubot originate. Japanese paper cut technique has been used in order to achieve the unique and rich appearance.

Cindy Michael
Cindy has been creating original ketubot since 1977. She studied calligraphy and illumination techniques in New York City and earned her Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture. She has applied her skills to all forms of Judaica and hopes her work will inspire others to celebrate the richness of Jewish tradition.

Selwyn Mills
Selwyn Mills is a retired psychotherapist who maintains a keen interest in the visual arts. His  photographic prints are part of the permanent collection of the Bibliotech Nationale in Paris and he is widely known for his work in the field of Faux Finishes and decorative painting.

Amalya Nini
Amalya is from a Yemenite family who came to Israel at the beginning of the century. She studied art both in Israel and abroad and her work has been exhibited in Israel and the United States. Her elegant and very detailed designs are reminiscent of illuminated manuscripts of the past and are laden with Jewish symbolism and motifs expressing her deep love of nature.

Izzy Pludwinski
Izzy Pludwinski is widely considered one of the top calligraphers in Israel. His unique designs reflect his view that one can create interesting ketubot and other works of art solely through the use of pure calligraphy. His creative challenge is finding ever new forms for the Hebrew Aleph-Bet he so loves.

Ruth Rudin

Michelle Rummel
For modern couples desiring a Ketubah as unique as their love, award winning artist Michelle "Shell" Rummel's collection of distinctive Ketubot  brings a fresh, creative vision to the traditional world of Judaic art.

Robert Saslow
Saslow is a Los Angeles-based calligrapher and designer who comes from a family of artists. He has a degree in 2-dimensional art from Cal State and has worked as an artist for the Jewish community since 1980. His work is displayed in museum collections nationwide.

Karen Shain Schloss
Karen Shain Schloss is a self-taught calligrapher and paper-cut artist who combines illustration and graphic design to create unique marriage contracts and varied calligraphic artworks.

Leah Sosewitz
Sosewitz is well known for her ketubot which include fine illumination and detailed papercutting. Jewish texts of all kinds inspire leah's varied works with interweave images and words. Leah explores color, form and content with her distinctive style. Leah was a 1998 recepient of an Illinois Arts Council Arts Council Artists Fellowship in Ethnick Folk Arts. Her work elegantly combines the traditional Jewish aart form of papercutting with fine illumination.

Corinne Strauss

Andrea Strongwater

Betsy Platkin Teutsch
Betsy Platkin Teutsch is  renowned for her captivating ketubot, ceremonial and book illustrations.  She is a prominent figure in the contemporaryJewish renaissance.  Her outstanding lettering and design sense, combined with a wide-ranging Judaic knowledge, result in exquisite works of art.

Sheila Weinberg
Sheila Weinberg's papercuts illustrate stories from the bible. The delicacy and intricacy of her work is unchallenged. Her ketubbah was made for the museum as an act of love and generosity.

Shulamit Widawsky
Manuscript Illumination is only one facet of Shulamit Widawsky's artwork. Over her lifetime, she has worked in a broad variety of styles and media. Her present work represents the accumulation of more than thirty years of artistic evolution.