Gon Ben Ari is a published writer in Israel. His second book, Sequoia Children, has been translated to English; his first, Nursery's Residents, was published in 2006. Hisd first feature film, the Yiddish-speaking Hassidic Western, Der Mensch, won the Jerusalem Film Fund for its development. He worked on his fourth novel.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Gon Ben Ari
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Tel Aviv, ISRAEL and Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015
Studios
Schelling
Gon Ben Ari worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…