Young arti ts get
it firs
a taste of
exhibition.

Mordechai Roberg, 4, of Southfield, shows his art to Zahava Levi, preschool coordinator, and Devora Levi, 4, of Oak Park.

T

he gala opening of the so-called Imagination Station Museum of Art's "Little
Louvre" exhibition featured original paintings, collages and sculpture made
by the talented artists of the Southfield-based Yeshiva Beth Yehudah's nursery
class under the direction of teachers Shelly Shapiro and Chumi Nusbaum.
The exhibition follows study about Paris, during which the 4- and 5-year-old students
learned about various artists and their techniques.
The student artwork was hung in the hallway outside the students' classroom. The
young artists and their adoring art patrons — their parents, grandparents and siblings
— walked the hallway admiring the work, the diversity of the subject matter, the range
of styles and the choices of color.
As if on cue, one artist after another would stop before his own work and beam, while
his private art patrons would kvell and take photographs or videos.
The teachers served "champagne" at the "black tie optional" event and all were treated
to a "Parisian feast" of bountiful sweet delicacies, including crepes and petit fours, as
Baroque music played in the background.
Who knows? Perhaps a budding Chagall or Rothenberg will get his or her start here?
Regardless, the experience was rewarding for all.

— Ken Guten Cohen, story development editor

Above: Suri Yelen, 4, and mother
Fayge Yelen of Oak Park enjoy
refreshments.

Left: Miriam Buckwold of Oak Park
and her son Moshe, 5, enjoy the exhi-
bition.

Teacher Shelly Shapiro of Southfield offers up some "bubbly" for the occasion.

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March 22 2007