Arts & Entertainment

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Galleries around town
focus on a popular art form.

Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News

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Jaclyn Schanes: China
apple; The Bite apple;

Versace apple.

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for her senior show opening in May at
CCS, started drawing as a youngster, later
experimented with making furniture and
aclyn Schanes enjoys fresh
moved on to blowing glass. She began
apples, but she likes faux apples
making all kinds of fruit but narrowed
Iiill even more.
her attention to apples because she
Schanes, a senior at the College for
believes they have inherent symbolism.
Creative Studies, has formed about 50
While Schanes sells her delicious-like-
sculptures of her favorite fruit
projects under the name Applejacx, she
using glass. She breaks from
also designs infant clothing, some with
reality with the help of different
bats and skulls, and calls the line Motor
colors, patterns and subtle varia- City Baby.
tions in shape.
"I add designs to basic outfits:' says
An apple sculpture with the
Schanes, who lives in Detroit and markets
Chai (life) symbol is on view
her clothing at Sprout in Royal Oak. "For
through April 27 at the Janice
adults, I make glass
Charach Epstein Gallery in the
jewelry and have
Jewish Community Center in
done custom-made
West Bloomfield. Her work joins
pieces for clients!'
with the works of other glass
Schanes, who has
artists as part of Michigan Glass shown and sold her
Month, now in its 26th year and
apples at area art
celebrated at some 30 art spaces fairs, will be moving
around the state.
to Las Vegas after
Pamphlets outlining all the
graduation and will
glass shows and glassmak-
look for a job doing
ing workshops are available at
store displays as she
participating art centers, including the
pursues her glass
studio of Janet Kelman, who will demon-
projects after hours.
strate sandblasting and slumping 1 p.m.
"Glass was my
Saturday-Sunday, April 22-23, in Royal
hobby:' she says.
Oak.
"Now it's at the cen-
ter of my life."
Apple A Day
"I wanted a number of my apples to
New Directions
express my Jewish heritage says Schanes, Sidney Hutter has
21, who had her bat mitzvah at Temple
shown his glass at
Israel. "My most popular apples have sur-
the Charach Gallery,
faces suggesting lace and are not related
but this year his
to religion!'
work will be on view
"Glass Expressions: College for Creative
April 22-May 8 at
Studies Centennial Celebration:' the title
Habatat Galleries
of the West Bloomfield exhibit, features
in Royal Oak. The
the designs of current students and
"34th Annual
graduates. There are vessel forms, human
International
forms and abstractions — many selected
Glass Invitational
for their affordability to attract new col-
Exhibition" includes
lectors.
projects by 90 art-
Schanes, who will display 40 apples
ists from 15 coun-

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tries with the opening reception set for
8-10 p.m. Saturday, April 22.
"I will be showing a new series using
laminated plate glass:' says Hutter, 51,
whose projects focus on the vessel and
strive to take it in new directions. "I'm
currently working with vertical forms that
are more massive and segmented while
showing multiple colors, and I've evolved
into more painterly effects. I use a pri-
mary palate with overlaying sections that
meld colors and have enhanced prismatic °
refractions."
Hutter, married to former
Detroiter Carol Parven Hutter, lives in