tOfficial Art Fair Thread

Submitted by Geaux_Blue on
Friends from down South have come up for odds and ends and staying at Campus Inn so it's a solid day and a half of campus art fair for me.

Visiting? Selling? Buying? Oggling? Staying away due to lack of outdoor State Street AC? Etc.

I'll post any notable booths and would appreciate others doing the same. One year (05) UMHS or a section therein did a booth of medical slide prints that were dyed and framed that I bought from as a grad gift to myself. Haven't seen it since. Etc.

aaamichfan

July 21st, 2011 at 5:40 PM ^

I live like a block away, and still haven't walked through yet. It's just been too damn hot for the last two days. 

Raoul

July 21st, 2011 at 8:23 PM ^

Are you talking about the one featured in this annarbor.com article?

The Bio-Artography booth is # 155 located on the corner of East University and Willard at the South University Art Fair.

The article includes the image below with this caption: “Flychedelic” by graduate student Andrea Ramos. This image shows a developing larva of the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster

M-Wolverine

July 21st, 2011 at 8:28 PM ^

And it's always hot....but I don't know if I'm down with melting after just the first 3 blocks. Especially after work. Maybe Saturday morning... Just the people watching might be fun. It's been many a year since I haven't scoured ever inch of the Fair, but this might be the off year.
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<br>On a side note, my mom was at the very first Art Fair...all one block of it.

Jon06

July 21st, 2011 at 10:38 PM ^

bought a painting from the guy who did the poster for the state/liberty/main st art fair. fortunately it's his first time and he has failed to understand art fair pricing. also says he sold the original painting that became the poster for $100 before he knew it was going to be picked. first art fair purchase that was immediately worth more than it cost ever, i bet.

Feat of Clay

July 22nd, 2011 at 9:35 AM ^

There's an artist on Liberty, between Maynard and State, who set up a mister just outside his tent.  I just about frenched him on the mouth yesterday. He was super popular.  He also had gorgeous jewelery but it was all outside of my budget by a 4-figure margin.

Feat of Clay

July 22nd, 2011 at 1:56 PM ^

In the Nickels Arcade, there's an artist who has a business called "Gulo Gulo."  She's selling t-shirts with a kinda cool wolverine logo. 

What I really liked was an enlarged print of a photo of her granddad, who was captain of the U-M team back around in the early 1900s.  The photo was so cool (he's in a blue sweater with a big yellow skinny M of the day, and padded leggings). I was bummed she wasn't selling copies.