Drawings for a Free Palestine

Portraits of families in Gaza
2025-2023

I create hand-painted watercolor portraits portraying families in Gaza with whom I chat directly. My intention is to honor Palestinian families through portraiture, to help my friends survive, and to re-humanize them. Click on a portrait to view their family’s survival fund.

Every family fund linked to each portrait 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. Consider giving any amount regularly to a family fund. I don’t take any proceeds or make any money from this project. I want to help families survive. Thank you. - Laura

“Influence the influencers.”
— Shahid Bolsen
2024

Watercolor and acrylic ink portraits of influencers who continue to use their platforms to denounce oppression, extermination, and genocide.
They show care. They amplify Palestinian voices. They remind us our humanity is interwoven with our fellow humankind siblings everywhere.

Each portrait links to a verified family in Gaza, where everyone is still trapped, and are able to access survival funds through vetted material aid funds.

Adrienne Marie Brown for Hussam the med student and fam

Amanda Gelender for Aya & Moamen’s family

Meira Gold for Jehad Al-Masry, Nisreen, Suleiman and fam

Protest art from my perspective
2024

Drawings of Palestinian land, olive trees, and ancient natural beauty
2024-2023

The Al-Aqsa Flood in Oct 2023 was provoked by generations-long Israeli apartheid, colonialism, and occupation of Palestine.

The occupation is funded by US/Western Imperialists and war profiteers, who bankroll the Israeli government to continue to commit unconscionable catastrophic acts of genocide and ecocide in occupied Palestine. Settlers burn and cut down ancient olive trees to erase everything Indigenous and Native to Palestine.