FACING PAGE, TOP: Dreamscape by Kaye
Weinberger is based on a photo taken in
Birmingham. Link Wachler’s award-winning
necklace design, with its cubes in just a few
of possible variations. FACING, BOTTOM: Edna,
a mosaic by Michelle Sider. ABOVE: Visions
of Women by Weinberger shows a series of
model poses painted in a grid format.

Arts Center in Petoskey and in an
alumni show at the University of
Michigan.
Link Wachler has jewelry cli-
ents all over the country and has
won 41 awards from national and
international competitions. One
necklace, made from white gold
interlocking cubes with white and
black pearls, won an award in the
2017 International Pearl Design
Competition.
This year, that award-winning
necklace will be on display at Our
Town along with four other of his
jewelry designs — another neck-
lace, a ring, a bracelet and earrings.
He submitted five designs to Our
Town, and all five were accepted.
Some pieces, with contemporary
looks, have interchangeable parts
and so take on different appear-
ances.
Wachler, who spent many years
designing for the family jewelry
stores and learned in that environ-
ment, made a career change nine
years ago and only does custom
pieces with individual clients.
“I’ve made bar mitzvah rings
and other kinds of jewelry with
chai symbols and Jewish stars,” says
Wachler, who had his bar mitzvah
at Temple Israel and is an alumnus
of the College for Creative Studies.

“I go to customers’ places of busi-
ness and homes to plan out what
they would like.”
One customer, hotel entrepre-
neur Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas,
hired Wachler to make gifts for
honorees involved with a temple
education center.
“I’ve been designing jewelry since
I was 15,” says Wachler, whose work
is also showcased in an October
display at the West Bloomfield
Township Library. “I’m based in Troy,
where I do the carving in wax and
the casting for the finished pieces.”
Kaye Weinberger paints using
acrylics because of the color qual-
ity and the variation of her styles.
She will be showing a still life and
abstract landscape as well as a figu-
rative drawing.
“I do a little of everything,” says
the West Bloomfield resident, who
has an art education degree from
Wayne State University and has
taken classes at the Birmingham
Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC),
where Andrea Tama has been her
mentor. “I like the creativity, beauty
and relaxation that are part of the
artistic experience.”
Weinberger, who has attended
services at Congregation B’nai
Moshe, has made a hamsa mosaic
and also worked with ceramics and
calligraphy. Her designs have been
part of a student show at the BBAC
and in a display at Providence
Hospital in Novi.
“Our Town is a great show
because it has all kinds of art rep-
resented,” she says. “I’ve shown my
work there before, and I’ve bought
jewelry there.” •

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