Mid 20th century
Artist and Educator
Temima Gezari was the Director of the Department of Art Education, Board of Jewish Education of New York (for 62 years, beginning in 1940) and supervised art programs and art teachers in 150 schools in the greater new york metropolitan area. She was married to Zvi Gezari, and the mother of two sons, Daniel and Walter.
Parson's New York School of Fine and Applied Art -1924
Master Institute of United Arts (graduated – 1930)
The Art Students League
Columbia University
New School for Social Research
Taos School of Art, (New Mexico)
Graduate of the Teachers' Institute of the Jewish Theological" Seminary of America
Attended Hunter College, Columbia University, and the New School for Social Research
Taught in the Clinic for Gifted Children at New York University, 1938 - 1940
Taught Art History and Art Education on the university level at the Seminary college of the Jewish Theological Seminary from 1935 -1977.
Gave invited lectures and seminars at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, New York University and the City of the College of New York, Teachers Training College, Singapore, Coventry College of Education, England
Established the Art Workshop for Teachers to which they may come in an informal atmosphere to discuss the philosophy of art education and to study the various media in a search for creative approaches to teaching
Established the Board of Jewish Education Art Gallery in 1975
Founded the Teachers' Committee on Art in Jewish Education
Established the Junior Gallery at the Jewish Museum -1950 -1963
Arranged exhibitions of children's artwork city-wide. These have been held annually since 1943 at such museums as the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum and the Riverside Museum in New York and at the Board of Jewish Education in New York. These exhibitions have been arranged for the purpose of giving children an opportunity to show the art that they have been doing throughout the year on a purely educational and aesthetic level. It is felt that every child should be given an opportunity to use the art media for the sake of their individual growth and happiness. For this reason, any element which may make for competition has been intentionally omitted
Temima was the art advisor to the National Conference of Christians and Jews
She was art chairman of the Riverside Neighborhood Assembly, arranging exhibitions of the art work done in the public and private schools on the West side of Manhattan