![]() ![]() “She’s very humble and even a little shy,” Rice said. Rice said she is “thrilled” that Gluck, who will be 94 in July, will attend the show’s opening reception. Another large abstract, “The Liberation,” is filled with strong brushstrokes and bold hues. One of the paintings in the show is called “The March” and shows a long line of women with a rainbow of colors washing over them, a piece that Rice calls profound. Her girlhood home was surrounded by colorful gardens, and it was those memories that kept her going.” “I think when people visit the gallery and see her paintings, she wants them to be struck not by her story but by the colors. “Sidi calls herself a ‘colorist’ - her art is abstract and full of bright colors,” Rice explained. There, she taught art in inner-city Los Angeles schools for more than two decades. She went on to earn both an MA and MFA from Ohio State, and taught art in Columbus Public Schools until 1972, when she moved to Southern California. and settled in Columbus, where she enrolled at Ohio State and earned a bachelor’s degree in art education, studying painting and graphics with well-known artists Hoyt L. Though the rest of her family perished at the hands of the Nazis, Gluck relocated to the U.S. “In Auschwitz, Sidi was pulled from the (execution) line at the very last minute. “Sidi told me when she was a little girl, a palm reader visited their home and told her she was going to live a very long life,” Rice said. As the war began to rage, her older brother fled to a safe house, while the rest of her family was sent to Auschwitz. Gluck’s story starts in Czechoslovakia, where she was born in 1922 and grew up in a well-off family living near the border of Hungary. The show’s title draws from her physician father’s final words spoken to her en route to Auschwitz in 1944: “Remember … nobody can take away what is in your head.” The show will feature dozens of Gluck’s post-Holocaust oils and prints in an unforgettable series of colorful and revealing abstracts. 22 exhibition “Sidi Grunstein Gluck: Remember…”. Rice’s gallery, the Alice Rice Gallery in Laguna Beach, will host an exhibition of Gluck’s rarely seen paintings in the June 25 to Aug. The other is Sidi Gluck - painter, art teacher, Auschwitz survivor. One is Gigi Rice - actress, artist, gallery owner. She said the kids at her school think she's a star.Two Ohio State alumnae are coming together this summer for an art exhibition in Southern California. When Theatre Under The Stars decided to produce its own revival a few months ago, Kaitlyn had to settle for a role in the chorus. A couple of years ago, Kaitlyn made her stage debut as the lead in Oliver! at her mother's school. Kaitlyn's mother, Leslie, is a high school art teacher. No matter what she decides to do with her life, these skills translate." ![]() Her father, Randy, an attorney, said Kaitlyn's theater experiences "build confidence and poise. Kaitlyn and the other kids in Gigi did their homework in what they call the dungeon, a dressing room below the stage of the Musical Hall, where the show was mounted. In past years, Kaitlyn had studied at a community theater program, but neither she nor her parents found it professional enough, so she switched to the Humphreys School last fall. ![]() Kaitlyn trains and rehearses three days a week for an hour or two and even longer on Saturdays and tours production numbers at such area attractions as AstroWorld and Houston Ballet's Nutcracker market. She's enrolled in the Humphreys School of Musical Theatre, an academy for young people run by Theatre Under The Stars. "Linnea was always writing us letters, telling us about her career, opening nights, why she liked being an actress." We had tea and chocolate chip cookies." They also had food for thought. "All the kids in the show were invited, five of us, four girls and one boy. Then there was the tea party with Linnea Dakin, the actress who portrayed Gigi. "President Bush came onstage during intermission," Kaitlyn gushed. The stage adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe film classic opened Jan. She's just finished her run as a Parisian child in Theatre Under The Stars' revival of Gigi in Houston, which featured Gavin MacLeod, Liliane Montevecchi, and Anne Rogers. ![]() Just ask Kaitlyn Rowney, a fifth grader at Winship Elementary School in Spring, TX, a suburb of Houston. ![]()
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