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he sixth annual West Bloomfield Art Festival and the sixth annual
Royal Oak Clay & Glass Show will be held Saturday, June 10, and
Sunday June 11. The West Bloomfield show will be located on the
grounds of Henry Ford Medical Center on West Maple Road, while the
Royal Oak show will run along Washington Avenue in downtown Royal Oak.
The West Bloomfield juried art show features more than 200 artists spanning the
spectrum of media and style to include painting, glass, sculpture, photography and
Judaica. Stan Megdall, of West Bloomfield, a graduate of Groves High School and
Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, will show his glass artwork. "This is what I've
been doing since graduation, and it's been very good," he says. He produces commer-
cial and commissioned pieces. His wife, Debbie, works in the business. "We work as
a team," says Debbie. Megdall makes about 100 pieces a week in his studio. Prices
start at $40 for a perfume bottle and go as high as $2,500 for a grandfather clock, his
newest work. The grandfather clock is crystal-colored, but Megdall also uses vibrant
shades like the decorative piece in the photo. "I keep changing, evolving and improv-
ing," says the artist.
In addition to the West Bloomfield Art Festival, Megdall will also participate in the
Novi Art Festival, August 5-6 at the Novi Town Center.
According to Royal Oak Clay & Glass festival chairman Anne Kuffler, of Arianna
Gallery, "This is the only show in the country featuring just clay and glass." The fes-
tival awards cash prizes to the artists to ensure quality participation. In addition to
the more than 150 artists present, festival goers can enjoy live music, a children's art
area and samplings from the local restaurants.

— Carla Scha,i,artz

Clockwise from upper left:

West Bloomfield artist Stan Megdall's

glass work will be at the West Bloomfield

Art Festival.

Barbara Doncaster of Jupiter, Florida, will

exhibit her watercolors in West

Bloomfield.

Ann Arbor artist Margo West's decorative

work will be at the Royal Oak Clay & Glass

Show.

Joseph Lung, of West Virginia, will display

his vessels in Royal Oak.

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