Katie Miranda Al Ali lives in Oregon with her husband, son, and cat.
Katie Miranda was selected as a participating artist in the juried Portland Open Studios tour in October 2025.
In 2019, she held a solo exhibition titled Sumoud and Todamon; paintings of Katie Miranda at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery in Washington, D.C., featuring her Palestine-focused work.
From 2018 to 2022, her work was featured at Desert Designs gallery in Saudi Arabia, introducing her art and jewelry to an international audience and engaging collectors through an artist talk and a live painting demonstration.
In 2014, Katie participated in the Sharjah Capital of Islamic Culture festival in the UAE, presented under the patronage of Sheikha Jawaher al Qasimi and her daughter Sheikha Boudour al Qasimi, both of whom became admirers and collectors of her work.
She was featured in the International Museum of Women’s Muslima exhibit in 2013 and spoke at the Museum’s San Francisco fundraiser, sharing insights into her work and faith.
Earlier, her paintings were shown at U.C. Berkeley’s Ryder-Worth Gallery and in her first solo exhibition at the Islamic Community Center of Northern California in 2011, marking important early milestones in her career.
In 2006, Katie and fellow International Solidarity Movement activist Jonas Moffat completed an 11-date Northern California art show and speaking tour, presenting her paintings and cartoons alongside stories of Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance, connecting audiences with both art and activism.
Katie received her BFA in Illustration and Painting from the Academy of Art University and her MFA also from the Academy or Art University in Graphic Novels.
In 2007 she studied Arabic calligraphy with Palestinian calligrapher Ehab Thabet in Ramallah. While studying for her MFA she had the opportunity to take a jewelry and metalsmithing elective. For her final project, she decided to combine the arts of Arabic calligraphy and metalsmithing, launching Katie Miranda Jewelry in 2012.
In 2015, Katie Miranda launched Palbox, a quarterly subscription delivering fair trade Palestinian olive oil, za’atar, olive oil soap, arts and crafts, and her own jewelry. The idea grew from selling olive oil at Bay Area events to support the International Solidarity Movement, as customers wanted access year-round. Palbox continues to support Palestinian farmers and artisans, and Katie left the company in 2022 under new leadership.
In 2020 and 2022, Katie completed two successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaigns for Ernesto's Sanctuary for Syrian Cats using a cat necklace design (pictured) left as a fundraising perk which raised over $4000 for the sanctuary. Learn more below:
Katie is a cartoonist who has been published in Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, Common Dreams, Dissident Voice, Electronic Intifada, and Al Jazeera.
From 2005-2008 Katie lived in the West Bank cities of Hebron and Ramallah while volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). In 2006 Katie’s team of ISM volunteers came under tank fire while entering Balata refugee camp in the West Bank while the camp was under curfew to deliver food and help escort sick or injured Palestinians out. None of the volunteers were hurt.
Inspired by Juliano Mer-Khamis’ documentary Arna’s Children, Katie founded Art Under Apartheid in 2007, a program that taught art, English and yoga to underserved children in Hebron’s Tel Rumeida neighborhood and Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
In 2007 Katie organized a teach in and t-shirt making demonstration at Checkpoint 56 in Hebron. Palestinian children were invited to create t-shirts at the checkpoint which contained the Martin Luther King Jr. quote “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed” in Arabic, Hebrew and English.
In 2008 Katie led a team of ISM volunteers to a village in the northern West Bank where a videotape had been dropped in a field by an activist who filmed a critical event before he was arrested by the Israeli army. The video contained proof needed to exonerate a Palestinian who had been falsely arrested for a crime he did not commit. Katie’s team successfully by-passed two army jeeps in a closed military zone and snuck under a guard tower to retrieve the videotape which eventually lead to the Palestinian being freed.