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Clockwise from top left:
Annette Berenholtz: "The candles
are like nests bringing new life."
Menorah by Wendy MacGaw. She an
her husband Ted Lee Hadfield own
ArtPack Services, which is helping
with the setup of the exhibit.
Susan Wayne formed copper and
nickel into an elongated flame
shape repeated throughout.
Lisa Slovis' modu&r sculpture has
pewter and brass parts that can be
moved around for different effects.
Peter Shire has incorporated doves im
this menorah of architectural steel,
baked enamel and anodized alurninh
Stephen Schock incorporates actual
oil cans used in machine shops.

viewing at the show and for sale.
The CD will tell about the holiday
and the artists, including Shire, who
has incorporated doves into this year's
sculpture. Shire, who can build on his
Jewish heritage, has completed proj-
ects that are part of the collections at
the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and
the Judisches Museum in Frankfurt.
"Peter likes people to look at his
work and feel good," says his wife,
Donna, who reveals that her husband
has used architectural steel, baked
enamel and anodized aluminum to
form the new pieces. "He has been
called 'the whimsical artist' because his
work is uplifting, colorful and happy."
Although Shire does not sculpt

many Judaic items, he has done mezu-
zot and a limited-edition menorah for
museum shops. His primary interest is
steel sculpture used in public commis-
sions, and he teaches about his artistic
attitudes at many different colleges,
including California State University,
the University of California at Los
Angeles and the Southern California
Institute of Architecture.
Shire's art "replaces nostalgic conno-
tations with eclectic playfulness and
subtle irony," says Dr. Irina Costache
of Loyola University in New Orleans.
"One of the original members of the
Milan-based Memphis group, Shire
redirects our attention from tangible
usage to aesthetics."

Second Time Around

Herb Babcock is another artist and
teacher who will be represented in
the Federation show for the second
time. His ruby-red glass menorah is
in the form of a half circle that faces
up and rests on a steel base. The can-
dles float above the glass, and one
candleholder can be removed.
"My imagery has to do with how
glass lets you see through form," says
Babcock, who teaches at the Center
for Creative Studies in Detroit. "I
use a window effect to represent dif-
ferent states of reality."
Although Babcock is not Jewish, he
has been commissioned to do other
Judaica. He designed an eternal light

in the apartment chapel on the
Jewish Community Campus in West
Bloomfield. Abstract and playful
windows at the Baldwin Public
Library in Birmingham and the
Huntington Woods Public Library
were constructed under his direction
as secular class projects.
"We wanted to create a meditative
environment for the mind," Babcock
says of the library work.
Husband and wife artists Ted Lee
Hadfield and Wendy MacGaw also
are doing menorot for the second
time. Their Farmington Hills compa-
ny, ArtPack Services, helped with the
setup of the exhibit.
"I tried to pick up a little bit of

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