HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Anita's Kitchen Resionivaini

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Arbor home that houses stacked boxes
of fabric, row upon row of spools of
colorful thread and baskets of paint. "I
swore in the seventh grade I would
never sew," Zinn says, chuckling.
But when she married a man who
travels a lot for business, she became
the recipient of beautiful fabrics that
her husband brings back from Asia
and other exotic areas of the world.
• "[I thought], 'What am I supposed
to do with this?'" she recalls. "I had a
neighbor who quilted, and she got me
interested."
Some of the fabrics became a nine-
patch quilt with a message embroi-
dered on the back about how her hus-
band, Frank, brought each material
back from a different location.
"The theme is integrating art with
wanting to make things meaningful,
enjoyable, practical," she says.
"I was always into art, but never
formally," she says. "As a kid, I took
classes at Cranbrook, and then a
sculpture class at Hebrew University.
Three years ago, I did a course at U-
M in mixed media."
The art took on a more consistent
pattern after the birth of Zinn's
daughter, who is now 5. The quilting
gave way to painting on fabric, then
to pillows.
Around the house lie various birth-
day presents created for her young
daughter: a quilt, a pillow, a collage
painted on an old picture frame, a
floor mat with Disney characters, a
play mat with the alphabet.
Above Zinn's bed dangles a purple
wall-hanging. Adorned with pictures
of her father, his old tie clip, a chess
piece and a coin from his collections,
the hanging is part of a series, shared
among her siblings, that depict special
memories of her father, who died last
winter. She finished the series and
showed it to her father a month before
his death.
Zinn's Judaism led her to the art,
and now the art is leading Zinn back 'to
Judaism. Since creating artwork can be
isolating, she went back to teaching
religious school at Beth Israel. The
fifth-grade course she teaches focuses
on prayer.
That has inspired the artist to take
passages from the Torah and create
artistic interpretations on canvas with
thread. Eventually, she hopes to do
synagogue art," such as Torah covers
and Ark curtains.
Zinn's work is constantly evolving.
"I'm taking a class now on biblical
Hebrew. Everything you do affects
something else," she says.

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Maher Shaikarna

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Heartily Wish Their Customers, Friends
And The Entire Community
A VERY HEALTHY AND
HAPPY NEW YEAR

Detroit Jewish News

9/18

1998

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