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Art enthusiasts think
glass in April.

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to The Jewish News

ichigan Glass Month, a 19-year tra-
dition, reaches from the heart of
Detroit to the heart of Pontiac,
with galleries expressing their
strong feelings for the material by showcasing
new and treasured works — figurative and
abstract, secular and religious.
Jacob Fishman, a neon artist showing an
early design at the University of Michigan-
Dearborn, traces the origins of glass artistry
to the Jews, who were made to work with
the material as slaves in Egypt.
- "If it weren't for the Jewish collectors,
there wouldn't be a glass art movement, "
says Sidney Hutter, whose vase forms will
be on display at the Janice Charach Epstein
Museum/Gallery in West Bloomfield.
Habatat Galleries in Pontiac, which initiated its
International Glass Invitational 27 years ago, helped
generate the energy for the statewide celebration,
which this year is being organized with the leadership
of local collector Jean Sosin.
Extensive samples of the work of two very different
Jewish artists, Hurter and Ricky Bernstein, will be shown at
the Charach Epstein gallery in the D. Dan & Betty Kahn
Building of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit in
West Bloomfield, while other Jewish artists offer limited pieces
throughout the area.
Meet some of these artists and view their work:

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Ricky Bernstein:
"Latkes and Applesauce,"
painted glass and aluminum
construction, 1998.