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Mozart Overture to Don Giovanni
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Mozart Symphony No. 38, "Prague"
Performed at two neighborhood locations:
Charach Gallery fuses mediums
of glass and clay in new exhibit.
Elizabeth Applebaum
Special to the Jewish News
S
ometimes on a winter night
the snow will fall and fall and
fall, and it's like the whole
world is embraced by silence and
everything seems to stop.
Imagine holding such a moment in
your hands.
Artist Katrina Ruby will give it to
you.
"When a glass piece is going well, I
feel at peace with the universe," said
Ruby, 34, of Sterling Heights.
"I use glass to create a visual expe-
rience but also a textural experience.
I hope that people will wonder at my
work and experience it with more
than just the eye. When people come
to my work, I would like them to take
away a sense of the peace and enjoy-
ment that each piece leaves me with.
I want to evoke for others a sense of
stillness and quiet much like the going
out into the world late at night after a
fresh snowfall."
Katie Ruby is the featured art-
ist at the upcoming exhibit and sale
"Fusion" at the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit's Janice
Charach Gallery. The exhibit is set to
open Thursday, March 29, at 7 p.m.
and runs through May 2. It will feature
work by students, staff and alumni of
the College for Creative Studies (CCS).
"Glass Month is one of my favorite
times of year, showcasing both stu-
dents and expert glass artists in the
same exhibit:' said Gallery Director
Terri Stearn. "What an opportunity for
these students to be side-by-side with
some of the most experienced glass
artists in the state!'
This year's exhibit includes two
notable additions. The gallery also will
feature works of clay, and 2012 marks
the 50th anniversary of Glass Month,
celebrated by more than 150 muse-
urns, galleries and studios nationwide.
The use of glass as an art form goes
back more than 3,500 years, but until
1962 it was impossible to find a single
college curriculum that included any-
thing having to do with the medium.
Then University of Wisconsin ceram-
ics professor Harvey Littleton con-
vinced his school to incorporate such
a course.
There were plenty of eager and
talented students — but no one to
buy their work. So the program was
expanded to include other colleges
and universities, and it became an
extraordinary success. Today, some
15,000 artists work in glass.
Though to the outside it might look
like a fragile world — where a single
wrong move could destroy days of work
— its easy to love glass, artists say.
At CCS, from which she graduated
in 2006, Katie Ruby majored in crafts.
Then she discovered glass while work-
ing at a studio in Colorado, and she
"fell completely under its spell." She
says she finds glass a "truly unique
medium. It is always teaching me
something new and offering me new
paths to explore."
Ruby, who is not Jewish, works with
other artists in the Russell Industrial
Center in Detroit. She uses primarily
kiln-fired glass with "cast, fuse and
slumped glass to represent my imag-
ery. I worked in a mixture of methods
to create the pieces [at the gallery
exhibit], including a casting process
called pate de verre, as well as fusing
and incorporating forged, patinated
steel and copper." 0
Elizabeth Applebaum is a marketing
specialist at the Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit.
"Fusion" runs March 29-May 2 at the Janice Charach Gallery inside the
Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Gallery hours:10 a.m.-
5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday and noon-4 p.m.
Sunday. More info: (248) 432-5448; jccdet.org .
In Southfield
Thu., Mar. 22 at 7:3o p.m.
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Sun., Mar. 25 at 3 p.m.
At Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
27375 Bell Rd.
At Seligman Performing
Arts Center, Detroit Country
Day School, 22305 W. 13 Mile Rd.
Tickets just $25!
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