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Lurie Terrace 50th Anniversary Art Exhibit

When

Saturday January 17, 2015: 9:00pm to Thursday February 26, 2015: 9:00pm

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room Exhibit, Downtown Library: Lower Level Display Cases

Description

Residents of Lurie Terrace Senior Center are exhibiting art works in a variety of media, including painting, drawings, ceramics, photographs and quilts, to honor the 50th Anniversary of Lurie Terrace. Included will be a painting of Shata Ling, whose inspiration resulted in the planning and building of Lurie Terrace.

The hexagonal design was featured in the New York Times and the buildings won a citation at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The original buildings featured a room for arts and crafts. Residents continue art activities on site and two residents, Margaret McCully and Dorothy Mitchell, are enrolled in a ceramics class at Washtenaw Community College. One resident, Joan Riemer, has a loom and weaves in her apartment. Painters’ talents and interests vary from abstract works, by Virginia Newell who is legally blind, to portraiture by Richard Marks whose career was making stained glass windows including all the windows in the Westminister Presbyterian Church. Large and small quilted items will be on display done by two residents who are quilters, Kate Baker and Mary Beth Troxell.