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p.m. Monday through
Saturday, 873-7888.
BLOOMFIELD
TOWNSHIP LIBRARY
1099 Lone Pine, Bloomfield,
Hills, "Calligraphic Im-
ages," 10th annual spring
exhibit of the Michigan
Assocition of Calligraphers,
today, 642-5800.
TROY ART GALLERY
A gift she will
treasure for-
ever and ever
...A gift for
Eternity
755 W. Big Beaver Road,
"The Great Outdoors,"
Tuesday through July 29,
hours: 11 a.m. -5:30 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday, 11
a.m. -4 p.m. Saturday (clos-
ed Saturdays in July),
362-0112.
LE MINOTAURE
GALLERY
115 E. Ann, Ann Arbor,
Detroit Artists Tyree
Guyton and Francine
Rouleau, paintings, now
through June 20, hours:
noon -5 p.m. Monday
through Saturday, 2 p.m.
-5p.m. Sunday, 665-0445.
The Finest Expressions of Love Come From .. .
EAST/WEST GALLERY
Hours: Daily 10-5:30
Thurs. 10-7
Sat. 10-3
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ESTABLISHED 1919
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CADE GALLERY
214 W. Sixth St., Royal
Oak, Barbara Dorchen's re-
cent works, now through
June 28, hours: 10:30 p.m.
-7 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, 546-3365.
HOMESTEAD GALLERY
136 S. Pontiac Trail, Walled
Lake, "Directions 1989,"
opens Saturday through
June 25, reception to
benefit Common Ground,
hours: 11 a.m. -5 p.m. Tues-
day through Sunday, 11
a.m. -9 p.m. Thursday,
669-8980.
RUBINER GALLERY
7001 Orchard Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield, Nancy
Thayer,cast paper and con-
structed canvas, now
through June 30, hours: 11
a.m. -5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday,
626-3111.
Russian-Born Artist
Finds 'Micro' Success
HEIDI PRESS
Ask for our
23337 Woodward, Ferndale,
prints by Muleme, Kipness
and Kuroda, now through
June 22, 545-4820.
L
uba Bar-Menachem fol-
lowed in her father's
footsteps by studying
construction engineering. Lit-
tle did she know that she
would drop that area of study
for a new endeavor — art.
But she didn't pursue that
field until after her expulsion
from the Soviet Union, when
she immigrated to Israel.
Today, Bar-Menachem en-
joys a successful career as a
Hebrew calligrapher, ex-
hibiting her works not only in
Israel, but throughout the
U.S. as well.
Bar-Menachem will be in
Detroit Monday for a special
showing at Congregation
Beth Shalom at 7 p.m. The
congregation has a special tie
to the Russian-born artist —
it adopted her parents, Isaac
and Dina Zlotfers, and tried
to win their release from the
Soviet Union. However, the ef-
fort proved fruitless, and both
Zlotfers died without ever
meeting their Israeli son-in-
law and grandchildren.
Bar-Menachem studied con-
struction engineering in
Sverdlovsk. After the Six-Day
War, she became a Zionist ac-
tivist, and was expelled from
the Soviet Union. She im-
migrated to Israel, where she
met an Israeli medical stu-
dent. Following a move to
Vienna, they conducted a
worldwide but unsuccessful
campaign to have her parents
released from the Soviet
Union. In 1982, she, her hus-
band and three children settl-
ed in Jerusalem.
Bar-Menachem took an in-
terest in art after her children
were born. "When the
children were small, I was
tired of diapers and bottles,
"she said. "I wanted to learn
something." She enrolled in
an ORT school, where she
took up calligraphy as a hob-
by. She chose that medium
because "this is what my
hand is able to do" and
Hebrew calligraphy because
"it belongs to our way of life."
"The Hebrew letters are so
beautiful, more than a pain-
ting, " she said.
Although she only had two
years of engineering studies,
the technical drawing courses
were helpful in her
calligraphy work. She never
attended any formal art
classes — everything she
knows about calligraphy was
learned in adult enrichment
courses, by studying ancient
Jewish art and visiting the
Israel Museum. "A lot of good
ideas come from a long time
ago," she said.
Bar-Menachem also works
in micrography, where small
letters drawn close together
form a picture or design. The
method is traced back
through the ages when the
Jews, prohibited from prin-
ting holy texts in Hebrew,
resorted to micrography.
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