Innocent Knowledge gathers digital images of children’s drawings created between October 2024 and June 2025 in fifteen communities across Israel, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. Nearly four hundred drawings—made in classrooms, kitchens, makeshift studios, open courtyards, and emergency tents—offer a rare and intimate glimpse into how young people experience a deeply fractured and unequal landscape.
Local educators, artists, and therapists extended a simple invitation: “Draw anything—especially family, home, or something from the past year.” Children responded with images both tender and harrowing: playgrounds beside tanks, demolished houses beneath yellow suns, flowers blooming next to tanks. Each drawing speaks from a world marked by violence, rupture, and displacement—but also by memory, endurance, and the instinct to make meaning.
The drawings shown here do not speak for every child or every community. But they offer something just as vital: a shared archive of witness and imagination, created by children who rarely cross borders in life, but whose images can’t help but do so.
Curated by Canaan Estes, Taher Vahanvaty, and Katharina Galor. The exhibition features an original soundtrack by Layan Hawila (Berklee College of Music) and Yuval Gur (Rhode Island School of Design), as well as mobile installation by Francesca Liuni (Rhode Island School of Design).
