ART FOR A FREE PALESTINE
Our children have rights to creativity and safety in Gaza and everywhere
2025
Artist Intelligence: Protect Children’s Rights to Safety and Creativity
Acrylic on canvas, 16 in x 20 in
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY
The 33rd Annual National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition:
”AI - Artist Intelligence” June 9 - 27, 2025
Everyone deserves the safety to play and create. No art as usual during genocide.
I’m a Jewish mother whose grandparents survived the Nazi holocaust. I reject zionism and have a moral responsibility to act for the safety of people surviving extermination.
The imperial war machine in Israel, funded by US and its enablers, has been manufacturing starvation and hunting children inside Gaza, the world’s largest concentration camp, for almost 2 years as of this writing in June 2025.
Imperial powers decided that weapons testing is ok on a civilian population that is more than 50 percent children.
Drones, quadcopters, AI-powered tech, and new bombs that shred bodies in a unique way are all deployed on children in Gaza by Israel, a colony of the US. — LB
I painted the canvas edges with symbols of the “Right of Return” inspired by, and as a way to honor Tatreez, Palestinian embroidery.
Proceeds if sold go to the Gazan-Led Community Support Fund (@gazanledcsf). — LB
Watercolor portraits OF families in Gaza
2025-2023
I want you to join me to help survivors of extermination.
Click on a portrait to view their family’s survival fund. Consider giving regularly to a family fund.
My intention is to honor Palestinian families through portraiture, to help my friends survive GENOCIDE, and to re-humanize them.
Linked to each portrait is a survival fund that has been carefully vetted and verified by the global mutual aid collective of which I’m a part: Bees & Watermelons, or by Operation Olive Branch and Butterfly Effect Project.
Thank YOU FOR SUPPORTING SURVIVORS. I don’t take any proceeds or make any money from this project. — LB
“Influence the influencers”
— Shahid Bolsen
2024
I created watercolor and acrylic ink portraits of influencers who use their platforms to denounce oppression, extermination, and genocide.
Each portrait links to a verified family in Gaza, where everyone is still trapped. Through their vetted campaigns, linked on the images, these families are able to access survival funds.
Adrienne Marie Brown for Hussam the med student and fam
Meira Gold for Jehad Al-Masry, Nisreen, Suleiman, Sidra, and fam
Amanda Gelender for Aya & Moamen’s family
Sammyrabbit for Dina Mohammed and fam
