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defaced Jewish graves, and the third
shows a village street with paving
stones made of Jewish gravestones.
“All three speak to my sense of
Judaism and art,” Aronson says.
Aronson’s sense of art crystallized
when he was an eighth-grader in
Milwaukee. A drawing of a down-
town building, completed with
Cray-Pas oil pastels, got accepted
into a show with an awards lunch
serving up macaroni and cheese at
the Stouffer’s Building, where he was
given a Civil War calendar.
“Since that day, I’ve been a huge
Civil War student and an artist,” he
explains. “I came from a family of
five that never went out to restau-
rants so for me to go to lunch at
what was the fanciest restaurant
in Milwaukee blew me away. I buy
Stouffer’s macaroni and cheese to
this day.”
Art brings a sense of memory,
accomplishment and spirituality to
Aronson, who thinks of it as a life-
time journey, not a hobby.
As Aronson works in the
Wayne State printmaking studio,
he is grateful to the late Eugene
Applebaum, a Metro Detroit com-
munity activist, for endowing the
room in his honor. The Robert
Aronson Intaglio Studio is defined
by the honoree as unlike any oppor-
tunity he could have across the
country.
“My parents taught me to have
a vision of beauty in the world,”
says Aronson, who will be donat-
ing all proceeds from the sale of
work to the Schyck Aronson Fund
for Recovery at the United Jewish

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Foundation.
“My parents felt the world was
a beautiful place and that had to
be expressed. That’s what I’m try-
ing to do, and that’s why I dedi-
cated the show to them and Eugene
Applebaum.”
When the room was dedicated to
Aronson in 2012, he told the crowd:
“I’ve tried to accomplish three
things in my life. One is to be a good
son and a good role model for my
children. One has been to serve my
community with all my strength, and
the third aspiration I’ve had, believe
it or not, is to be a Michigan print-
maker. And that is not so easy, but it
is something that I love. It feeds my
soul. We all need something like that
in our lives, and that’s why this little
corner of the world is such a special
place.” •

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“Landscape As Portrait” runs Aug.
25-31 at the Galerie Camille in
Midtown Detroit. No admission fee.
(313) 974-6737; galeriecamille.com.

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