Fall 2005
Simchas – A Supplement to the Atlanta Jewish
Times
Added Excitement
Gallery of Love makes art of announcements
When Joel and Tara Green went to pick out their marriage license at
their county courthouse, they were disappointed, buy not surprised, to
find how boring the choices were. Joel had just returned from settling
his parents’ estate where he had seen their ketubah, the
Jewish marriage contract.
“We both wanted something that would capture the essence of the
sacred marriage contract,” Tara said.
Joel a former Doyle Dane Bernbach Madison Avenue art and creative director
with over 100 awards to his name, set out to create marriage certificates
that would have a romantic flair to celebrate weddings and anniversaries.
And Gallery of Love was born.
The idea has expanded to baby gift and baby naming certificates, as
well as bar and bat mitzvah certificates, which are 12-by-16-inch prints
from original oils.
Bar or bat mitzvah certificates can be used as gifts to commemorate
the special day, but Green said people often buy them and double-mat
them for people to sign as they walk into the celebration. In the two
original “Tradition” designs an old Rabbi guides the young
man or woman as they approach the Torah. There is room for all of the
personalized details of the day, including date of the celebration and
the names of child, parents, rabbi and other celebrants.
The "Celebration of Birth" certificates combine art with
the personalized details of a baby's birth, featuring a scene from a
Grimm's fairy-tale-style enchanted forest where loving mama & papa
animals rejoice in a baby’s arrival. “Nursery Rhyme Fun” is
a burst of whimsical classic characters celebrating the miracle of birth.
The Greens created and designed the prints, which were painted for
the certificates by award-winning illustrator Gary Overacre
For something more unusual there are the Star Child and Indigo Child designs,
which are a retooling (with permission) of a 1936 Saturday EveningPost cover
featuring a sweet child gazing into a crystal ball byJ.C.
Leyendecker.
ONLINE
www.galleryoflove.net
To go directly to bar and bat mitzvah certificates,
hit http://www.galleryoflove.net/mitzvah.php
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