Meet the artist

Elly Bovarnick Studios

Elly Bovarnick hand-draws pomegranates, a Jewish symbol of abundance, and prints them on cotton and silk tallitot.

Based: Tampa, FL
Craft: Hand-illustrated textile tallitot

Elly Bovarnick is a Tampa-raised Judaica artist whose tallitot begin as her own hand drawings of pomegranates, a Jewish symbol of abundance, printed in repeat on cotton voile or silk habotai. "I really feel like making tallitot is my calling," she told the Jewish Press of Tampa. "It's meditative for me."

She earned a BA in art and art history from New College of Florida, then spent four years in Spain, working as an au pair, teaching English to high school students in Granada and León, and earning a master's in textile and surface design from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid.

Back home, she launched Elly Bovarnick Studios and threw herself into Tampa's Jewish community as a Moishe House Without Walls host. In 2025 that work earned her the Charles Adler Young Leadership Award from the Tampa JCCs and Federation.

She is now a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, and hopes to bring that learning into her ritual art. At ModernTribe her work centers on tallitot, each built on hand-drawn pomegranates in its own palette.