The artists' village of En Hod, 15km/9mi south of Haifa on the western slopes of Mount Carmel, was founded in 1953 on the site of an abandoned Arab village. The founders a group of artists led by the acclaimed Dada artist Marcel Janco decided that Ein Hod would be a place where they could work, build studios and workshops, and form a creative environment for art and art education. The founders' dream ran into the harsh reality of those days.
By perseverance and vision they gradually transformed Ein Hod into the only artists' village in Israel, one of the few in the world, where artists live and create in every artistic media from the visual arts, to theater, music and literature. It is now occupied by 130 families, who form a village co-operative (aguda shitufit) where one member of each family is an active artist.
The artists' village of En Hod, 15km/9mi south of Haifa on the western slopes of Mount Carmel, was founded in 1953 on the site of an abandoned Arab village. The founders a group of artists led by the acclaimed Dada artist Marcel Janco decided that Ein Hod would be a place where they could work, build studios and workshops, and form a creative environment for art and art education. The founders' dream ran into the harsh reality of those days.