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Above: Caricature artist Ted Talvitie, an Ann
Arbor native.

Left: Crowds peruse the art on display.

Far left: Despite crowds and beating sun,
people love Ann Arbor's streets full of art.

hot, humid and crowded as usual for the
art fairs that lined the streets of Ann Arbor
last week. But that didn't stop more than
500,000 shoppers, gawkers and just plain look-
ers from strolling through the 38th annual dis-
play of art.
One thousand artists came from 45 states
to hawk their creative wares. Although native Michi-
ganians know it as the Ann Arbor art fair, it is ac-
tually a collage of three separate fairs —Ann Arbor,
State Street Area and Summer art fairs.
The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, which filled South
University and environs, is the smallest and is a ju-
ried, selective display. On State Street, it was the
30th juried display organized by the State Street
Area Association, featuring the work of 270 artists.
The Summer Art Fair is the only fair with two
separate locations — on part of State Street and
downtown on Main Street and on Liberty. This one
grew out of a "free fair" organized along the Uni-
versity of Michigan Diag in 1970.
Although there wasn't much Judaica for sale,
Jewish artists were definitely represented — buy-
ing and selling. 0