Kalmania, Art school campus in the Sharon region, Israel

Kalmania is a farm compound in the Sharon region, founded in 1927 on land between Kalkilya, Tira and the village of Miski. Within two years orchards were planted, a well was dug and a water pool built, and buildings went up: a machine house, a cowshed and a two-storey residence, plus a kitchen and dining hall for the workers. Since 1995 the compound has housed the Midrasha art school of Beit Berl College.

Kalmania farm was founded in 1927 by Moshe Gradinger, who named it after his father Kalman, on land between Kalkilya, Tira and the village of Miski. Baruch Ben Ezri (Raab), a pupil of Aharon Aharonson, managed it and within two years planted orchards, dug a well-fed water pool and built a machine house, cowshed and two-storey residence. In the late 1930s Gradinger sought a buyer; after Avraham Hartzfeld's efforts the farm passed in 1945 to the labour settlement institutions, part of the land to Keren Kayemeth. Gradinger died on 9 June 1946.

The name Kalmania commemorates Kalman, father of founder Moshe Gradinger. From 1995 the farm buildings have housed the Midrasha art school of Beit Berl College, so studios and exhibition spaces now occupy the former machine house, cowshed and two-storey residence.

Kalmania lies in the Sharon plain between Kalkilya, Tira and the village of Miski, east of the coastal towns. The site is reached by road, and the historic farm buildings stand next to the Beit Berl college campus. Visitors come for the art school housed in the former farm; the grounds are a working campus, so access follows the school's opening.

The farm's water came from a well dug on site, feeding a reservoir built within its first two years. The farm operated for about a decade as the largest and most successful agricultural holding in the country in the first half of the 20th century, and hosted agricultural experiments that advanced the field in Palestine.