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duced by Annette Baron,
udaica by
an Ann Arbor artist
a Florida
trained at the Toledo
artistic team
Museum of Art,
comes to the
where she inten-
Birmingham Fine Art
sified
her interest
Festival scheduled
in functional
Saturday and Sunday,
forms etched
May 8 and 9, in
with simple
Shain Park and along
designs.
adjacent streets in
"It's nice to be
downtown Birmingham.
at
a
show where
Sue and Mike Shapiro,
people
under-
who work out of a Florida
stand
the
work,"
studio, will be in town with all
Sue and Mike Shapiro: says Shapiro, who
kinds of clay pieces from sculptural
"Dreidle," ceramic. is making her sec-
dreidels to Havdalah sets.
ond visit to the
"We were at the festival last year,"
festival
and
sells
at
many
art shows
says Sue Shapiro, who designs, exe-
around
the
country
as
well
as a gallery
cutes and decorates the clay slabs pre-
in
Sr.
Petersburg.
"I
also
do
a lot of
pared by her husband, also responsible
architectural
containers."
for firing the works. Some of our larg-
In its 18th year, the Birmingham
er pieces are one-of-a-kind, and some
Fine Art Festival has grown to attract
of the smaller ones are done in series.
60,000 visitors. Because of its family ori-
Each year, we have new designs."
entation, there will be a student
art show and children's art activ-
ities, such as ceramic clay work
and T-shirt painting, as well as
food offered by local restaurants.
Co-sponsored by the
Birmingham Bloomfield Art
Center (BBAC) and the
Birmingham- Bloomfield
Chamber of Commerce, the
event has no admission fee.
The jury panel includes Pam
Hill, Hill Gallery, Birmingham;
Janet Torno, BBAC executive
director; Ray Fleming, Robert
Kidd Gallery, Birmingham;
Nicole Jacquard, metalsmith
and jewelry instructor, BBAC;
John
Stephenson,
ceramicist and pro-
The Shapiros, who also have shown
fessor
emeritus,
University
of
their sculptural projects at the Arts &
Michigan;
and
John
Cynar,
sculptor.
Apples fall invitational in Rochester
As
they
evaluated
the
Shapiros'
work,
Hills, began merging their talents two
judges saw a style that is similar to wood-
years ago. She had been an artist for 18
working with forms built by hand and
years, and he had been a social worker.
designs shown through carving. They
"When I got out of the
also saw a palette of recurring colors.
Massachusetts College of Art, I appren-
"I love working in black and white
ticed with two potters," Sue Shapiro
and
using earth tones," says Sue
explains about her early training. "The
Shapiro,
who will not be at Arts &
Judaica started when I began making
Apples
this
year. That fair falls on
gifts for people I knew. At that time,
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Hashanah.
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hardly anything was contemporary.
Let The
Art
Begin
This year's Birmingham
Fine Art Festival
features a bit ofJudaica.
The Shapiros are among 300
artist/exhibitors selected from the United
States and Canada to display their fine
art and fine crafts. Besides the ceramics
and sculpture, there will be glass, paint-
ing, photography, fiber and jewelry.
"All art is designed and crafted by
the individual artists with no commer-
cially manufactured pieces allowed," says
Jennifer Muir, festival coordinator. The
1999 brochure includes a glass vase pro-
— Suzanne Chessler
The 1999 Birmingham Fine Art
Festival runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday, May 8, and 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Sunday, May 9, at Shain
Park and along adjacent streets
in downtown Birmingham.
(248) 644-0866, Ext. 108.
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