in Musrara, where third-year students were feverishly preparing for their final exhibition. Judging by the items being tested, positioned, and assembled as the youngsters – all about to graduate from Musrara, The Naggar School of Art and Society – were getting ready for the grand opening, we are in good, eager, and talented hands.

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The curtain rose on the exhibition this Wednesday (through July 27) with an eclectic array of works that run the technological, conceptual, and stylistic gamut from photography to futuristic AI-assisted arrangements, with plenty between.

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Since its founding in 1987, the Musrara school has plied a steady course through the choppy waters of creativity, guiding its students toward envelope-pushing endeavors across numerous fields of art. It is not on its lonesome in that regard. This country, and Jerusalem in particular, is blessed with a fine crop of institutions of learning that provide quality education and guidance to budding Israeli artists.

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AYALA LANDOW is about to complete a five-year stint as head of the New-Media Art Department. As a veteran of the national art scene with a bio that, to date, has included exhibitions at the Israel Museum, the Bat Yam Museum, the C1 Berlin Gallery, the Neues Museum Weimar in Germany, and the Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, she is well positioned to offer her students a helping hand as they aim to put their thoughts, ideas, training, and talent to good corporeal presentational use.

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Jerusalem's art scene: Looking ahead from Musrara

Third-year art students unfurl their creative and personal credos.

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