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Bible Stories

Ceramicist Bonnie Cohen exhibits Judaica in
Temple Israel show.

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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grapevine to represent celebration
and fertility.
The artist, who does not work
exclusively in Judaica, won the
Package Design Council of America
Gold Medal in 1981 and the
American Corporate Identity
Excellence in Design Award in 1986.
She was a finalist in the Spertus

S bowing her artwork on mass-
produced Jewish calendars has
put lots of artwork projects on
the personal calendar of Ohio
ceramicist Bonnie Cohen. Temple Israel
- showcases examples of her stoneware
through July 31.
"From Earth to
Vessel: The Works of
Bonnie Cohen" refer-
ences the Bible —
pressed tiles illustrating
Noah's ark and
Miriam's dance, a wed-
ding goblet picturing
her vision of Adam and
Eve and a tzedakah box
sprouting a tree of life.
"People from the
temple called me after
seeing my work on the
Women of Reform
Judaism Art Calendar
2000," says Cohen,
who is represented in
14 galleries around the
country, including
This pressed tile illustrates Miriam's dance.
Zyzyx in West
Bloomfield.
"I don't use any molds, so all my
Museum International Judaica.
work is one-of-a-kind. I fire the clay at Exhibition in 1996.
least three times for the color and ac . J.
consider myself an idea person,"
.24-karat gold for the last firing. I write says Cohen, who has developed com-
biblical quotes into the glaze."
munity art and teaching programs in
Cohen, who graduated from
addition to taking on commissions.
Carnegie-Mellon University in 1971,
Cohen designed and implemented a
studied industrial design and found
project to create two tile murals in
commercial work developing product,
honor of the 50th anniversary of Israel
packaging and corporate images. Her
at her local Jewish community center.
focus changed after 15 years, when her The yearlong project involved devel-
husband, Randy, bought her a kiln
oping themes, concepts and tech-
and greenware, ceramic forms that
niques for integrating children's art
need to be glazed.
into the murals, writing a curriculum
"I decided to enter a show, and later, for workshops and training teachers
my synagogue suggested that I do
and facilitators.
Judaica," explains Cohen, who
The artist also developed and taught
enrolled at the University of Akron in
a class in Judaica for the Akron Jewish
the '90s to learn teLhniques to form
Community Hebrew High School. ❑
her own seder plates, menorot and
other ritual objects. "I got into a
Bonnie Cohen's stoneware will be
juried show with the Judaica and start-
on view through July 31 in the
ed taking orders."
Goodman Family Judaica
Cohen works out of a home studio
Museum at Temple Israel, 5725
and makes her work complex and
Walnut Lake Road, West
detailed by including many symbol ;.
Bloomfield. (248) 661-5700.
A wedding cup, for example, has a

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