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less than a millimeter wide, which 
is amazing to me. I can’
t thread a 
needle, and she does it without hav-
ing any vision,
” her mom says.
Andy Feinberg takes a more con-
ceptual approach. “I do all kinds of 
jokes,
” he says. His pieces, usually 
on paper, display a wry and sar-
donic humor. For one, he created 
a sign that said, “Lost Ballpoint 
Pen” and offered a Boston cream 
doughnut as a reward for its return. 
In the Center Galleries show, he 
created “Prankbook,
” a zine of the 
irreverent signs and flyers from his 
time at the studio, many razzing the 
center’
s staff. The cover wryly states, 
“Don’
t Open This Book.
”
Other pieces in the show seem 
to fit squarely into to neo-Expres-
sionist movement of the late-20th 
century. Rachel Fallert constructs 
cartoonish and colorful towers out 
of paper mache she titles “Fingers.
” 
Aislinn Wendrow creates bright-
ly colored canvases with thickly 
applied paint, with foreign materi-
als like towels and recycled paper 
attached. 
Bob Hafle of Detroit, whose 
wife volunteers at the Soul Studio, 
was the first to purchase a work 
from the show, a large canvas by 
Wendrow. An avid collector of 
silkscreen art, he plans to display 
the large mixed-media piece in his 
prominent foyer.
This show is a milestone for the 
Soul Studio. 
“I’
m very [keen] on trying to 
get the work of our artists in the 
same venues as other artists in the 
Detroit area who don’
t have special 
needs,
” says Anthony Marcellini, 
Soul Studio’
s exhibitions and pro-
gram manager. Soul Studio artists 
have exhibited at the University of 
Toledo and recently did a pop-up 
show at Detroit’
s Simone DeSousa 
Gallery. Exhibiting at the Center 
Galleries, a space for professional 
creators, helps cement Soul Studio 
as a space for practicing artists. 
“Maybe the right person will 
see it and get inspired,
” Shemtov 
says. “They’
ll say, ‘
How ’
bout New 
York? How ’
bout the DIA? How 
’
bout who knows?’
 Everything can 
happen. 
“
A big part of why we do what we 
do is ... to educate the general pub-
lic about how much we would gain 
as a society to have people with spe-
cial needs as part of our lives.
” ■

Peekaboo by Lauren Ettinger and Dominic Hotz
Tube Series with Teal Tube Mask 
by Teddy Fitzmaurice

Beady by Alyssa Gold
Fingers by Rachel Fallert

Muppets at Walt Disney 

World, Orlando Florida 

by Stephanie Harris

Grouping of pieces by Jacob Barron

