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Julie Cohen: Mosaic arrangement of her tiles.
Potter makes debut at annual arts
event, now in a new location.
Suzanne Chessler
I Contributing Writer
T
he tiles of Ann Arbor's Julie
Cohen will be among the nearly
35,000 pieces — sculptures,
vases, jewelry, pots, platters, mugs,
ceramic-framed mirrors, lamps, tables
and birdbaths — being shown Dec. 4-7 by
some 145 artists at the 39th annual Potters
Market, this year making its venue debut
at the Southfield Pavilion.
The event was held for more than
30 years at the UF&CW Union Hall in
Madison Heights.
"We are extremely excited about the
big move says Carol Fitzpatrick, Potters
Market co-manager. "The new facility is
bigger and gives us the opportunity to
add even more potters to the roster and
expand and improve the sales-floor lay-
out:'
The facility allows for daily pottery
demonstrations and a refreshment cafe,
vending machines, free coat check and
more parking.
Cohen develops hand-carved relief tiles
in different sizes and is expanding her
skills into functional pieces, such as round
trivets. Working from 28 different designs,
she will be showing some 200 tiles.
"My designs are inspired by motifs from
fragments of designs that I find in materi-
als, ceilings, books and other sources:' says
Cohen, active with Temple Beth Emeth in
Ann Arbor.
"I have botanicals as well as geometric
patterns, and I'm drawn to elegant sim-
plicity and clean looks that are timeless. I
work with different glazes for a combina-
tion of colors:'
Cohen, whose fine arts degree was
earned at the University of Michigan,
started off making prints while teach-
ing art in elementary and middle-school
grades.
Twelve years ago, her direction changed
after studying ways to make tiles at the
Ann Arbor Art Center.
"I got hooked on the process:' says
Cohen, who also plans to do plates and
trivets with seder themes. "My tiles now
are shown at the Dancing Eye Gallery in
Northville and in galleries known by pot-
tery buyers in Petoskey and Wesley, Mass.
"When I make tiles, I roll out slabs of
clay and use a series of small tools to make
designs. I develop a plaster mold to make
additional pieces with that design:'
Cohen, who works out of her kitchen
and in rented studio space shared by a
collective of five women, will be joined by
other Jewish artists at the Potters Market.
Among those showing new works
will be Jack Adelman of Farmington
Hills, Joane Arkin of Waterford, Lori
Becker of Birmingham, Carole Berhorst
of Bloomfield Hills, Lonnie Bodzin of
Southfield, George Erdstein of Huntington
Woods, Sara Frank of West Bloomfield,
Ellen Kates of Bingham Farms, Rachall
LaMe of Ann Arbor, Benji Pearlman of
Bloomfield Hills, Joanne Ugelow of Troy
and Ruth Weinbaum of Bloomfield Hills.
The Potters Market is organized as a col-
lective by the potters themselves, who staff
the event. Pottery from all the artists is
restocked continually, with an ever-chang-
ing array representing a cross-section of
work, whether stoneware, earthenware,
porcelain, raku or smoke-fired materials.
A special section, Pots for Charity, will
offer ceramic pots from the collection of
Dr. Charlie Blosser, late founder of the
Potters Market. All money raised in this
section will be donated to the Detroit Fire
Department in his memory.
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