30 | JUNE 9 • 2022 

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The third annual JVS + Kadima 
Frame of Mind Benefit and Arts 
Showcase, held at the Museum 
of Contemporary Art Detroit 
on May 15, raised almost 
$90,000 for the nonprofit 
agency’s Creative Expressions 
program, which provides 
artistic enrichment services for 
individuals with serious mental 
health challenges or intellectual 
and developmental disabilities. 
Around 170 people attended 
the event, which offered a 
theatrical immersive evening 
with singing, music, dance, 
acting and art. Professional 
musicians, dancers and actors 
from the Detroit Symphony 
Orchestra (DSO), Detroit 
Opera and Matrix Theatre 
collaborated with JVS + Kadima 
members to produce and 
perform in the show. 
Highlights of the evening 
included a performance of 
“Memory” from Cats, Vivaldi’s 
Spring performed on the violin 
by a member with DSO cellist 

Jeremy Crosmer, a spaceship 
animation featuring a member’s 
artwork, an interactive tree 
installation called “Walk a Mile 
in My Shoes,
” plus a dance 
performance to the Motown hit 
“Do You Love Me.
” 
There was also an art gallery 
displaying 100+ works of art by 
Creative Expressions artists. 

For information about the art program, 

go to shopcreativeexpressions.com 

or contact Craig Nowak at 

craign@kadimacenter.org. 

PHOTOS COURTESY OF JEFF AISEN

Third Annual JVS 
+ Kadima Frame of 
Mind Benefit and 
Arts Showcase

Madison, a singer at the event, with artwork

JVS + Kadima Board Member Dani Gillman with Board Chair Kristen Gross

Committee members Dr. Avery Murav, Robin Tobin Murav and Phyllis 
Schwartz

Committee member Barbara Eisenberg with JVS + Kadima member 
Joel K
JVS + Kadima CEO Paul Blatt with Co-Chairs Barbara and Michael 
Kratchman

Board Member Rick Zussman 
with Julie Zussman..

