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element. We can always assign people
to help us do work on the monu-
ments. We know their quality and
guide them how to help us on any
step of the process."
The size of the studio entered into
the ways in which the couple com-
pleted the Tiger project.
"Our ceiling is 14 feet high so we
had to grid the piece and work with
our heads almost scraping the ceil-
ing," Amrany recalls. "Sometimes, we
were on scaffolding and ladders, and
other times were on our backs work-
ing under the figure.
"It did get uncomfortable, especial-
ly because we had to judge it from
different directions, but Michelangelo
was on his back painting the Sistine
Chapel, so who are we to complain?"
The Amranys, who also paint, feel
they got to know the baseball players
from studying their faces
and expressions.
Julie Rotblatt Armany and Omri Armany
"I respect them for
"Cascading Melodies," in bronze, depicts
their
focus,
intensity and
a Cambodian mother and child.
achievements," says
Rotblatt-Amrany, who
worked on the Greenberg
visage. "By studying faces,
I think we get to know
personalities. Hank
Greenberg's expression
seemed to show a lot of
emotion, and that sug-
gests a warm personality."
Arniany remembers
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that people interviewed
about Greenberg seemed to
remember his big shoulders
and wanted the sculpture
to emphasize that.
"We want people to feel as though
and he did the statue of Harry Carey
the figures are alive and that they
(white bronze) commissioned by the
speak to them personally," he says.
Chicago Cubs for Wrigley Field.
"The figures should give a feeling, an
"My own work generally has more
emotion and a presence." 111
of an ethereal quality," says Rotblatt-
Amrany, who has become accustomed
to compromising and dividing respon-
The Tigers open their season on
sibilities when collaborating with her
April 3 in an away game against
husband on specific projects. "My
the Oakland Athletics and play
work is generally lighter, and I use a
their first home game at
lot of dance movement. Omri's tends
Comerica Park on April 11
to have more strength. It's usually a
against the Seattle Mariners.
little bit more aggressive, a little heav-
Dedication of the Tiger stat-
ier in feeling and more grounded."
ues
will be held Wednesday,
Since settling in Illinois, the couple
April
5, at Comerica Park.
have established the Rotblatt-Amrany
Tickets
for the party, which
Studio, where 50 artists work, exhibit
benefits
the Atanaf Ilitch
and cooperate on major projects. Their
Osteosarcoma
Foundation and
goal is to develop a group of masters
begins
at
7
p.m.,
are $250. To
who establish their own careers.
also attend the VIP reception,
"About half our colony is Jewish,
which features Tiger alumni and
and it's as if we built our own kibbutz
runs from 5-7 p.m., the cost is
,in America," says Amrany, who
$350. (313) 983-6050.
coaches their son in Jewish culture
and Hebrew. "I think it's a very Israeli

where, he had to do community work
before being able to travel.
"Even today, we don't do all our large
pieces together," he explains. "We have
our separate styles and do our own
commissions. It is not as though we
were individual artists and then after we
were married decided to work as a
team. It just kind of happens that some
of the projects ask for teamwork."
Among the couple's collaborative
sculptures are The Conductor's Hands for
the Quaker Oats Corp. in Chicago,
Standing Tall for the Maryville City of
Youth and St. Therese for the Carmelite
Monastery in Philadelphia. Cascading
Melodies, showing a Cambodian woman
and daughter, is a private commission
under negotiation for public placement.
Individually, she has done
Compassion Moves the World, a memor-
ial outside the Highland Park Library,

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