July 16-19, 2014 brings over 500,000 people to Ann Arbor, MI for the 55th year of Art Fair.
This is one of the largest art festivals in the country. Their mission “To increase public knowledge and appreciation for contemporary fine arts and fine crafts by creating opportunities that connect artists, the Ann Arbor community and the general public to their mutual benefit, culminating in a top quality juried street art fair.”
If you have been to an art festival anywhere, you have an idea of what this festival was like. Tent after tent after tent of photographers, jewelers, sculptors, metal workers, painters, clay, mixed media, glass, wood, if you can think it, it’s probably there, not to mention food and music. They closed off all the streets in the center of Ann Arbor and the surrounding streets and the tents went up, it’s crazy! There is something on every street and street corner.
Not only tents went up, but businesses opened their doors and put up their own tents and extended their stores to have some fabulous sidewalk sales.
When friends from all over, who went to undergrad or graduate school at U of M or were from Ann Arbor, found out I was in Ann Arbor for a few months said I had to go to Art Fest, must go to Art Fest, it’s a huge deal! And I was so excited that I would be here and here I am!
I didn’t buy very much, as I don’t have anywhere to put it, but I still had fun “window shopping”. I bought two things for myself and explored some of the alleys that the town has to offer. I thought about and thought about and thought about the Storm Trooper Sugar Skull, isn’t it the most! To say the least?
I hope if you’re in the area you have a chance to get out and check out the 55th annual Ann Arbor Art Festival!
Peaches Prattlings 