Canton Observer for April 19, 1984 - Canton Public Library

Creative Living
Sandra Armbruator editor 591 2300
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exhibitions
• HILL GALLERY
Friday. April 20 — Painting and
sculpture by Ed Rainey will be oo dlsplay
through May 12. Opening reception
7-9 pm Friday Hoars are 11 am
to 5:39 p-m Tuesday-Saturday, 113
Townsend, Birmingham
• CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF
ART MUSEUM
Student Degree Shows mo April 21-
29 and May HI. Pieces shown represent
the wort dooe by the academy students
during their two-year degree programs.
Tbe first will be work by roetalsmi
thing. patnMwj printmakiag and
sculpture departments. Tbe second will
feature architecture, ceramics and design,
fiber and photography. Tbe museum.
500 Looe Pine, is open 1-5 p m. daily
except Mondays and mijor holiday?
Admission fee.
• DETROIT HISTORICAL MU-
SEUM
"Jewish Life in America,* an exhibi
tion sponsor-led by the Anti-Defsmatioc
League of B'nal Brith, chronicles 300
years of Jewish contributions to American
society through photographs, paintings,
artifacts and memorabilia. Continues
through April 29. Hours are 9:SO
a m. to 5 pm. Wednesday-Sunday. 5201
Woodward, Detroit
• SOUTHFIELD CIVIC CENTER
GALLERY
Needlepoint exhibit of work by Rachel
Binstandig and ber students is on
display through May 2. Open during
regular business hours. Evergreen between
10 and 11 Mile roads, Southfleld
• DETROIT FOCUS GALLERY
Saturday. April 21 - 'Review Committee
Selections" Includes work by six
artista. Ptetor Favier, Douglass Hoagg.
Leslie Hoptcbo, Reset McPhail, James
Stephens and Tim Terrell. This is all
new work that has never been shown.
Hours are noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday-
Saturday, 749 Beaobten. Detroit.
• DETROIT ARTISTS MARKET
"Michigan Glass 94" and The Green
Dreas/A Chicago Story- continues
through May 11. There's a photography
ihowJn the upper galtary Juried by
Cart Toth, head of tbe Cranbrook Academy
of Art photography department.
in»e Market, 1492 Randolph, Detroit,
is open 10 am. to 5 p m Tuesday-
Saturday
• ARNOLD KLEIN GALLERY
Unusual show of 19th and 20th century
mezzotints continues through May f.
Hours are 11 a m to S JO pm. Toasday-
Saturday, 4520 N. Woodward, Royal
Oak
• SIXTH STREET GALLERY
Three graduate artists from the 1993
Cranbrook Academy of Art printmaking
department, Doug DeGood, David
Engel and Michael Walsh have work on
exhibit through May IS. Reception 5-9
pm Saturday. Regular hours are 19
am. to 5 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 214
W. Sixth Street, Royal Oak.
• BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD
ART ASSOCIATION
Third Michigan Fine Arts Competition
judged by Miriam Shapiro continues
through May 19. More that 190
pieces were selected from a field of
works by some 990 artists living and
working In Michigan Regular boors
are 9:90 am. to 4J0 pm Monday-Sat
urday. 1919 S. Cranbrook, Birmingham.
• PEWAB1C POTTERY
Michigan Pottars Association is holdtag
its annual members sal
May 14. Sale starts Saturday noon to 9
pm Regular hours are 19 am to I
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Olympic art
Athletes express spirit
in fund-raising paintings
The Budweiser Olympic Art Collec
tion, original paintings created by six
U S Olympic gold medal winners, will
be on display in Westland April 30 to
May 5
The paintings will be exhibited at the
Westland Center 35000 W Warren
Road at Wayne Road in Westland, 10
am lo 9 pm Monday through Satur
day —
1980 US hockey team captain and
hero Mike Eruzione basketball great
Bill Russell, sprinter Wilma Rudolph
discus thrower Al Oerter, marathon
runner Frank Shorter and swimmer
John Naber were commissioned by
Budweiser to create the art using the
tools of their athletic speciality For
example Russell used a basketball.
Eruzione used a hockey stick and Oert
er used a discus
THE ARTWORK is part of An
heuser Busch Inc s commitment to the
1984 Olympics company represents
tives say Anheuser Busch Inc brews
Budweiser and Budweiser Light beers
"Proceeds from the sales of the orig
inal artwork and reproductions will
help raise more than $1 million to help
finance the US Olympic Team's prep^
arations for the 1984 Olympic games In
Los Angeles." said Brian Porter mana
ger of Olympic marketing
"Budweiser miuated this program in
1981 to help sustain the financial recovery
of the United States Olympic
Committee which was set back signifi
cantly due to the US boycott of the
1980 summer games in the Soviet Union,"
said Jack MacDonough vice pres
idem of brand management
Christie's of New York auctioned the
original artwork for a total $86,500 in
1981 at a $100-per-plate fund-raising
luncheon for the U S Olympic Commit
tee Proceeds from the sales were donated
by Budweiser to the committee
Order forms for lithographic reproductions
and poster reprints of the ongi
nals will be available at the mall
ERUZIONE. captain of the US
Olympic hockey team that dramatical
ly captured the gold medal at Lake
Placid in 1980, calls his painting "May
hem "
"It depicts my winning goal against
the Russians You can see the path of
the puck," he said "When I put my sig
nature on it I said Geez. it's an Erui
looe
"There are dozens of Picassos. but
only one Eruzione "
Swlmmtr John Naber. who won four gold modala at the 1976 Mon
trool Olympics, calls his painting "100 Motor Backstroke."
classified real estate and homes
Russell's work, measuring 10-feet-8,
depicts tbe U.S victory over Russia in
basketball in 1956
"I can beTTumble about my painting."
said Russell, who led the American
team to the gold medal that year tn
Melbourne Australia "I knew mine
wouldn't be the most creative, so I
made it the biggest like a basketball
court "
RUDOLPH PAINTED a butterfly
representing the freedom of the sport
of running She won three gold medals
in track and field in the 1960 Olympics
in Rome
"M s an expression of me coming out
of the starting blocks, that was the
slowest part of my running," Rudolph
said "I call my work Madame Butter
fly
"When 1 was competing, they called
me the Black Pearl and the Black
Gazelle In the same spirit, I wanted to
create something graceful and beauU
ful I'm really happy with it '
WITH HIS painUng. Oerter tried to
show the intensity of training and the
impact the discus makes with the col
ors radiating upwards and out. he says
Oerter is attempting a comeback
aiming toward an unprecedented fifth
gold medal in Los Angeles in 1984 He
was a gold medalist in the discus in
1956 at Melbourne, in 1960 at Rome, in
1964 at Tokyo and in 1968 at Mexico
City