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    Ha'aretz
    Aug 4 2004

    Armenian art on the walls of Jerusalem

    By Irit Rosenblum



    A huge mural made of Armenian tiles featuring the sea, animals,
    plants, trees and Noah's ark will be dedicated next week at 14 Koresh
    St., in the heart of Jerusalem. The 4-meter by 6-meter (13-foot by
    19.5-foot) mural was designed and made using a unique technique by
    Miri Balian, who volunteered her talents to the city. The Balian
    family is one of the three Armenian ceramic art families -
    Karakashian, Ohannessian and Balian - who settled in Jerusalem in
    1919 and have been hand-crafting artistic ceramic tiles in Jerusalem
    ever since. Tile murals by Balian can also be viewed in the portico
    of the president's house, in the Malha Mall and in Beit Gavriel in
    Tzemach, on the shores of Lake Kinneret. Her works have been
    displayed at exhibitions in Washington and in the Eretz Yisrael
    Museum in Tel Aviv. The mural was installed by the East Jerusalem
    Development Company and financed by the Jerusalem municipality and
    the Tourism Ministry.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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