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vivors of the Holocaust, Israelis
caught up in the Middle East
struggle and victims everywhere.
"I've done a lot of reading
about the Holocaust, and when I
light candles, it's also for those
who will never get the chance to
do the things I have done,".says
Polenberg, who completed a
series of Holocaust paintings
shown at both Cornell
University in New York and
Hillel facilities in Ann Arbor.
"My parents were not reli-
gious, but they gave me a strong
identity with Jewish culture, and
I have tried to pass that along to
my three children, now adults.
As they were growing up, we did
attend religious services."
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Exploring With Clay
Polenberg has pursued art
Like Polenberg, Ted Ramsay, who shares the
because of her own instincts and
Ann
Arbor show, mixes clay with paper pulp
on the early advice given to her
to create two- and three-dimensional ceramic
mother by a New York kinder-
pieces. His work, like "Nature's Cave," pictured
garten teacher.
here, deals with environmental concerns.
Before high school graduation,
the artist attended special classes
at the Brooklyn Museum and the
mental concerns.
Museum of Modern Art in New York.
"My work and its narrative content
She went on to the City University
focus on rethinking our contemporary
of New York, where she did graduate
role in controlling nature, moving from a
work in painting, and she later earned
position of domination and exploitation
a master of fine arts degree from U-M.
to one of stewardship and fulfillment,
Polenberg's exploration of clay came
says Ramsay, whose current exhibit
before formal classes, and she estab-
shows animal and human figures.
lished her own ceramics studio in New
"My intent is to compel the viewer
York City. Eventually, she would devel-
to explore questions raised by the jux-
op glazes for her personal use after seek-
taposition of the images and their his-
ing products to bring a wide spectrum
toric context."
of colors to three-dimensional projects.
Polenberg recently moved to Ann
Before settling into U-M teaching
Arbor from Midland, where she also
assignments, Polenberg instructed art
was active in the Jewish community.
students at Delta College in Michigan,
Her recent professional focus has
Central Michigan University and
involved other current or upcoming
Barton County Community College
exhibits — a touring show sponsored
in Kansas, where she worked with
by the Michigan Potters Association,
young people from around the world
an invitational craft display in
and used her free time to organize
Nebraska and a sculpture exposition at
programs for the small Jewish commu- the Spiva Museum in Missouri.
nity in the area.
"There's a large barn on my new
"I've learned how much art really is
property, and I'm hoping to turn that
a universal language," she says.
into a studio," Polenberg says.
'Although I have not exhibited in
Israel as yet, I have traveled there, and
Coming Together
I enjoy Israeli dancing." ❑
Polenberg's work as gallery director at
Central Michigan University first
"Figure It Out" runs through
introduced her to Ramsay, who is rep-
Dec. 24 at the Washington Street
resented at the Visual Art Center in
Gallery, 215 E. Washington, Ann
Beersheba and has been part of
Arbor. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-
exhibits at the Jerusalem Theater,
5 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays and
American Cultural Center in Tel Aviv
11 a.m.-9 p.m. Fridays-
and city offices in Netanya.
Saturdays. (734) 761-2287.
Ramsay's subjects address environ-
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