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Artist uses natural materials to capture beauty BY MARY GENSON mgenson@candgnews.com
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Local kids participate in SHINE Fashion Show BY SARAH WRIGHT swright@candgnews.com
TROY — Variety, a children’s charity, recently hosted its 11th annual SHINE Fashion Show fundraiser, featuring special needs children modeling eye-catching clothes. Variety was founded in 1927 and helps provide children treatment for physical, mental and emotional needs, helping to build life skills and confidence. Variety also participates in humanitarian missions in developing countries around the world.
This year’s show took place Aug. 24 at the South Rotunda area in Somerset Collection, 2800 West Big Beaver Road. The proceeds will benefit the camp programs of FAR Therapeutic Arts & Recreation and the Variety 4-H Horseback Riding program. “It’s for children with special needs, and all the models in the fashion show are special needs kids who benefit from FAR and Variety,” said Ruthie Seltzer, a board member with Variety. The event usually raises around $40,000$45,000 for the cause. See FASHION on page 18A
ABOVE: More than 20 models participated in this year’s SHINE Fashion Show at the South Rotunda area in Somerset Collection Aug. 24. Photo by Erin Sanchez
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SOUTHFIELD/TROY — Artist Keven Bahoora uses natural materials in his art, which is being displayed indefinitely at the Italcasa showroom in the Michigan Design Center, 1700 Stutz Drive, Suite 25, in Troy. Bahoora grew up in Southfield and now lives in Las Vegas. One of the works of art at the showroom is a life-size piece made of sand. The subject is a “metaphorical Adam type figure,” depicted, “knowing what we know now,” he said. Bahoora said he was inspired to do this after bePhoto provided by Keven Bahoora ing hired to draw the Sistine Keven Bahoora’s “Red Rose” was made Chapel ceiling, “Creation of out of real rose petals. Adam,” in the 1990s. This piece, titled “man,” shows a Black man sitting in East Africa at the “junction between drought and storm,” Bahoora said. While creating this project, he set constraints for himself to follow, including the involvement of light in the piece, and the use of sand and dirt.