Art Fair

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On central campus. One of the enormous planters between the League and the Bell Tower. This used to be a street, but this block of what used to be Ingalls Street has been pedestrianized. No more cars.









Want to see some Art Fair? I thought you did.

Stenciling!

Mark Traughber.





Some of these are multi-layer stencils. See how the women in the corners have a medium value as well as the black? But the 60s high school boy doesn't.





These are small pieces of plywood. Small. Like 4"x5" or something in that range. They have a groove cut out of their backs, which fits over the metal rods to hang them.





Are you curious? Here's the answer.



I wondered if he'd have more complex stencils inside the booth (this was the outside wall), but no. Paintings inside. I didn't see any stencils inside. Ah well.



I was a student at the Potters' Guild for several years in the late 70s, and still have a very soft spot in my heart for ceramics.

Love that chubby turquoise teapot!

Delores Fortuna.





Almost all of the fiber seemed to be garmentage. Lots of discharge....

Betsy Giberson.





There are actually four separate fairs, though everyone tends to simplify and just call it "Art Fair."

The original fair used to be on South University. After some years of contention with the South U. merchants over who owed whom what for the privilege of associating with each other, the original fair moved to campus, and now is directly north of the diag, immediately south of Rackham, between the League and the bell tower.

A seriously censored view of the bell tower.





Here's what you get if you just swing the camera up and snap off an image..... Art Fair tents, and a crane which is working on the fancy new dorm thing where the Frieze Building used to be.






Ok. More art.

I have loved Susan Hill's work for a long time. The color, of course. Also the shapes, composition, texture............ Very nice.





Here is someone else whose work I have admired for a long time. Marcia Derse.

We looked at this last year. I want the lot of them. Wouldn't it be fun to arrange and rearrange these? They are all individually hung...........





Most of this artist's work was much larger. Actual garments affixed to canvas, and painted, etc.

I liked this small piece, with the stitching and buttons.....

Kathrine Allen-Coleman.





I don't know if there *is* more work that is available as multiple components, or if I'm just seeing it.

I don't know that all these wordy cubes were available individually or not. I'm not sure I like this cubical multi-form as much as flatter components which allow their neighbors to be more easily seen...........

I didn't notice if this booth is shared by a couple. It happens, and often results in a juxtaposition of fairly disparate work. The black and white cubes, with the curves of colorful glass lead me to wonder.......





Want to make a guess as to medium? I was puzzled by the matte finish. I wondered if it might be polymer clay, but some of these pieces are quite large......





Did you guess blown glass? The sizes and shapes of the pieces make perfect sense as blown glass, but I've never seen it in a matte finish before (and am not sure I've seen color used in quite this way, either).

Frederick Warren.



Here falleth apart my documentation of who made what.....

More garmentage. In addition to lots of discharged dye, there was lots and lots of felt.

I've seen criss-crossed fiber, felted, as scarves, but these were little jackety wraps.





More felt. This was felted on a light-weight woven fabric (silk organza is one fabric that can be used for this technique). The woven fabric gives a lot of strength to the felt, allowing for a much lighter-weight, drapier fabric than could be achieved if made of felt alone.

I like the curveldy doodads on the lapel of this vest.





Still more felt. Here you can readily see that the felt was made on another fabric.





Yet more felt. Sort of the polar opposite of the light-weight and drapey shawl -- I wonder if this is actually 4+" of solid felt? I am positive the balls are felt, and the black part surely looks like felt.........

These individuals did not give me a clear view of this piece (so rude, what about MY needs???)..........





One sees a wide array of garments in Ann Arbor on a plain old ordinary day. During Art Fair, even more so.

Why not let the things you can't wear to your job at the bank come out and get some air, at Art Fair time.



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