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but she is convinced he would have
In Jacobs' lower-level studio, tables
been an artist if the Depression had
and desks overflow with tools, art sup-
not forced him into the business
plies, paints, and more. For her it is a
world. Goodman would encourage
fairyland. Even she is astonished at the
customers to buy plain white-satin
creations that emerge from this mix of
pumps for fancy dresses, and then his
material. She can look at a shopping
daughter would joyfully hand paint
bag of practice golf balls and envision
them with complementary designs.
them stacked as platform heels on a
One of Jacobs' specialties today is plas-
brightly-colored shoe.
ter mache shoes in outrageous colors.
"I wish I were more organized," •
An art major in college, Jacobs left
Jacobs sighs, but she wouldn't change
to marry the late Sy
the setting. "I get
Jacobs. Once her sons
such a kick out of
were settled into
doing this; I get car-
school, she returned
ried away."
to Wayne State
Jacobs' followers
University to study
love her work, espe-
art education. For
cially the figures in, her
the next 26 years she
foyer: a red-haired tyke
taught junior high art
in nightgown and
and drama in Hazel
fuzzy slippers, schlep-
Park, retiring in
ping her blanket, and
1993. Assigned to the
her companion in pig-
district's
gifted and
tails and sunsuit, tot-
talented program,
ing a beach bucket.
Jacobs found a niche.
Another little girl is
"I was a teenager
clad in a yellow slicker.
again." She adored
These are her girls, she
her students. Her eyes
announces, as if they
sparkle when she
were her own children. Mitzi's women make a fashion
statement.
describes staging "The
Jacobs' real-life
Mikado," producing
family includes two
the "Kids on the Block" puppet shows,
sons, Mitch a producer, and Mark, an
and arranging countless field trips to
attorney, a daughter-in-law, Linda, a
Stratford, the Fisher and Music Hall.
speech therapist, and two grandsons,
"I took my students everywhere," she
Scott and Brandon. She points to the
recalls nostalgically.
boy figure reclining on the floor,
Puppets, sculptures, jewelry, murals,
explaining how Brandon was the
painted
furniture, window displays —
model. Scott is represented in her
Jacobs has done it all. Once, when she
home with a trail of red footprints, a
could not attend a birthday luncheon
reminder of time spent in her studio
for friends Dolores Gordon, Penny
when he was a toddler.
Nagel and Evelyn Goldsmith, she cre-
The Judaica figures also have
ated ruffled pastel plaster mache party
become favorites of Jacobs' fans. "Last
dresses on hangers to decorate their
year I had a customer at the
walls.
The women adored them; a pop-
Birmingham Temple who asked me to
ular series of children's outfits followed.
make something Jewish," she explains.
Jacobs has no illusions that she is
"I had a miniature wooden bench, and
creating great art. She rolls her eyes
I thought it would be perfect to have a
recalling her first gallery show when an
rabbi and a bubbie sitting together."
observer, a self-proclaimed critic, com-
Other rabbi figures followed, and then
mented on the balance and symmetry
came the klezmer band. The musicians
of her work. "The paint just fell that
dance on her coffee table, arm in arm,
way," she remarks with candor.
brandishing their instruments. One
Jacobs never knows what she'll do
balances a wine glass on his forehead.
next. One clue is a row of apples dan-
Jacobs agrees they are irresistible and
gling on strings over the kitchen sink.
perfect Chanukah gifts.
They're there to dry, she explains.
Jacobs credits her father, the late
Some people imagine pie. Jacobs envi-
Harry Goodman, for her talent. He is
sions dolls, one more Chanukah gift
remembered as the owner of the Shoe
possibility.
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