Meet the artist

Jessica Tamar Deutsch

Jessica Tamar Deutsch is a Parsons-trained illustrator who turned Pirkei Avot into an illustrated book and draws ketubahs rich with Jewish imagery.

Craft: Illustrated ketubahs

Jessica Tamar Deutsch is an artist and illustrator who studied illustration at Parsons. Her studio practice covers fine art, illustration, ketubahs and Judaica, made, as she puts it, to be art you're proud to display in your home and include in your most important life-cycle moments.

Her best-known book is The Illustrated Pirkei Avot (Print-O-Craft Press, 2017), an illustrated take on the classic collection of Jewish ethical teachings.

Her ketubahs are where many couples meet her work. The four at ModernTribe range from the Jerusalem Ketubah, which weaves together landscapes at the heart of Jewish heritage, to the Pomegranate Grove, the calm Green Forest (available with metallic foil), and the Whimsical Blue, which draws on the visual tradition of Persian ketubahs.