The Gottesman Etching Center

The Gottesman Etching Center is a creative place for artists from Israel and the world in the field of artistic engraving. The engraving workshop at Kibbutz Kabri was established in 1993. The workshop works to create artistic engraving works. Its uniqueness lies in its location in a rural landscape in the Western Galilee, a place overlooking the mountain and the sea.

In Kibbutz Kabri there is a connection between business and art, from the point of view that art is a factor that contributes to the community and its individuals and the business basket as well. Two well-known artists lived and created in Kabri, Uri Riesman, a painter, and Vihiel Shami, a sculptor, and winner of the Israel Prize. In addition, they live and create in various artists’ clubs; A beautiful sculpture garden open to the public next to the workshop where the sculptor Yehiel Shami worked and created; In the high school, there is a visual arts major; A contemporary Israeli art gallery operates in the kibbutz; A museum is also planned. The engraving workshop is intended to be a creative place for painting and printmaking artists from Israel and abroad and a center of attraction for art-seeking tourists, and indeed many artists visit it every year.

In 2006, the Gottesman family initiated the expansion of the engraving workshop, and in collaboration with Kibbutz Kabri they built a new building, in which, in addition to the workspace, there are also two galleries displaying the “fruits” of the workshop. The idea of expanding the building coincided with museum plans that came up even earlier and the architect Assaf Gutesman, who designed the museum building about a decade earlier, designed the renovated workshop building. The name of the workshop was changed to “Gottesman Center for Engraving”.