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2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

40 artist grants were awarded in 2025, to the following artists:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amir Nave \u2022 Anat Ikar Shoham \u2022 Anisa Ashkar \u2022 Avital Cnaani \u2022 Chana Anushik Manheimer \u2022 Dana Darwish \u2022 Elena Stelzer \u2022 Esther Cohen \u2022 Ester Shneider \u2022 Gabriella Willenz \u2022 Gilad Ratman \u2022 Haimi Fenichel \u2022 Haviv Kaptzon \u2022 Hila Laviv \u2022 Karam Natour \u2022 Keren Geller \u2022 Lee Yanor \u2022 Mai Daas \u2022 Marcel Tehila Bitton \u2022 Mark Yashaev \u2022 Maya Zack \u2022 Meir Tati \u2022 Miri Segal \u2022 Netai Halup \u2022 Noy Haimovitz and Tamir Erlich \u2022 Olga Oreshnikov \u2022 Omri Danino \u2022 Orit Akta \u2022 Orly Azran \u2022 Rami Maymon \u2022 Ronen Zien \u2022 Roni Hajaj \u2022 Ronit Mirsky \u2022 Ruti de Vries \u2022 Shay Id Aloni \u2022 Tamar Nisim \u2022 Tchelet Ram \u2022 Uri Zamir \u2022 Zohar Gottesman \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One artist expressed her will to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Members of the evaluation team<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad Canaan \u2022 Amera Zayan \u2022 Ashraf Fawakhry \u2022 Bar Yerushalmi \u2022 Dana Yahalomi \u2022 Dr. David Sperber \u2022 David Wakstein \u2022 Dr. Doron Lurie \u2022 Doron Rabina \u2022 Ella Amitay Sadovsky \u2022 Fouad Agbaria \u2022 Joshua Simon \u2022 Jossef Krispel \u2022 Hadas Maor \u2022 Hanna Qubty \u2022 Dr. Irit Carmon Popper \u2022 Leah Abir \u2022 Marie Shek \u2022 Maya Bamberger \u2022 Nardeen Srouji \u2022 Nir Harmat \u2022 Penny Hes Yassour \u2022 Raya Bruckenthal \u2022 Ruti Sela \u2022 Sally Heftel Naveh \u2022 Sharon Ya’ari \u2022 Smadar Keren \u2022 Tali Kayam \u2022 Tami Katz-Freeman \u2022 Prof. Uriel Miron \u2022 Yaacov Mishori \u2022 Yaniv Shapira \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1,400,000 NIS have been awarded as grants in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Field Research <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Reem Ghanayem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researcher, writer, and lecturer on art and culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hybridity and its representation in art in Arab society in Israel<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research examines ways of expressing hybrid identity in the work of five Palestinian artists who are citizens of Israel and work in a variety of mediums: drawing, painting, video, and animation. It focuses on the tension between tradition and innovation, and the question of representing personal and collective identity in Arab society in Israel. During the year, interviews were conducted with the artists, and visual and narrative material was collected for analysis. As of the end of 2025, three of the five chapters have been written. The research article is expected to be published in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artists who participated in the study, in alphabetical order:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad Khalifa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A visual artist specializing in digital animation and stop-motion. His work examines representations of queer, marginal, and urban identities from a critical perspective on the limitations of the body and cultural space. His works draw inspiration from pop culture, neurosis, and marginal street scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bashir Abu-Rabia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A painter born in Segev Shalom. His paintings reveal fragments and moments of pause: wounded bodies, broken lines, and images of nature that carry layers of memory and longing. He moves between figurativeness and abstraction, avoiding statement, and choosing instead to delicately sketch consciousness and emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mia Masri<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A visual artist and educator from Kafr Qara. Her works combine line, text, and color, and are rooted in personal womanly memory. She creates spaces that combine the language of painting with the written word, using Arabic letters as a means of constructing a space of belonging, wandering, care, and listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raida Adon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A multidisciplinary artist – video artist, photographer, and actor. Her work deals with the female body as a site of memory, displacement, and struggle, using layered visual spaces, silence, and charged symbols. The women in her works move between injury and freedom, silence and a scream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samah Shhadeh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An artist specializing in drawing, born in 1987, Samah Shehadeh stands out among the younger generation of Palestinian artists in Israel. Her visual language is based on charcoal and positions the female body as a focal point of memory, fracture, and belonging. Her works strive to construct a visual discourse that is both personal and political, between silence and protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rights and Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regulating Art in the Public Sphere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plumas Foundation continued its policy project in conjunction with the Association of Plastic Artists<\/a> in Israel. This year, the project focused on regulating the field of art in Israel’s public sphere. At the heart of this initiative is the promotion of the “Percent for Art” law<\/strong>\u2014the allocation of 1% of construction \u00a0costs of projects with significant public spaces for the installation of artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the year, the joint team, led by Revital Ben-Asher Peretz<\/strong>, worked on placing the issue on the agenda of relevant decision-makers in government ministries, local authorities, and the private sector, while recruiting partners for the move. Simultaneously, two new studies were launched:<\/p>\n\n\n\n