Thursday, July 25, 2019
INDEX
Vol. CXXVIII, No. 119
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OPINION ...............................
ARTS......................................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................
MICHIGAN IN COLOR
To the left
Dierra Barlow shared her
thoughts after an uncomfort-
able encounter wearing gen-
der non-conforming fashion
>> SEE PAGE 9
NEWS
Regents
Board of Regents talk Ann
Arbor campus planning at
final summer meeting
>> SEE PAGE 3
OPINION
Family
Emily Considine illustrates
why catching up with
family can feel like an
interview
>> SEE PAGE 5
ARTS
Art Fair
Follow a Daily editor’s
journey to find an obscure
ring at the annual Ann
Arbor Art Fair
>> SEE PAGE 7
SPORTS
Basketball
Howard meets with local
beat writers about accli-
mating to new job
>> SEE PAGE 12
inside
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Annual fair
brings over 1,000
artists downtown
From
Thursday,
July
18,
through
Sunday,
July
21,
hundreds of tents filled with
paintings,
carvings,
clothing
and food lined the streets of
downtown Ann Arbor for the
annual Ann Arbor Art Fair,
a conglomerate of the Street
Art Fair, Summer Art Fair,
State Street Art Fair and South
University Art Fair. Celebrating
its 60th anniversary, the Ann
Arbor Art Fair boastsed over
half a million attendees and one
thousand artists.
Karen
Delhey,
executive
director of the Guild of Artists
and Artisans, said planning
the fair requires a lot of
coordination between different
organizations. She explained
the planning process for the
next fair starts a week after the
current one finishes.
The Guild of Artists and
Artisans
is
specifically
in
charge of the Summer Art Fair,
but Delhey said collaboration
is
required.
Delhey
said
their mission was to provide
marketing
opportunities
for
artists and businesses.
“We have over 1,000 jury-
selected artists,” Delhey said.
“Nowhere are you going to see
this concentration of fine art in
one place.”
Studio owner Dale Rodgers
has enjoyed his ability to market
his work through the art fair.
“This is one of the greatest
buying-energy crowds, “ Rogers
said. “It’s a massive show.
Because of the scale, you’ll meet
buyers here from all over the
country that come to the show”
Mark Lewanski, who owns a
namesake glass studio, has been
selling at the fair for 10 to 12
years and agrees with Rodgers’s
sentiment.
“It’s a really good show,”
Lewanski said. “There’s so many
people that come in here that
can afford my work, so I can
always sell enough to do well.”
Obtaining a spot of the art fair
is considered selective. Delhey
said once an artist applies, they
are scored by jurists, with the
highest
scoring
submissions
receiving
invites.
For
the
Summer Art Fair, over 600
applications were received to fill
375 slots.
University
of
Michigan
Business
freshman
Gabriel
Correa attended the Art Fair for
the first time and said he ejoyed
the atmosphere.
“I’m originally from Puerto
Rico, so this is all new to me,”
Correa said. “I think this is a
really cool setting. It’s really
family-friendly.”
Temperatures rose to above
90 degrees throughout the fair,
just like the past year’s art fair.
Kaylan Mitchell, owner of the
Getup Vintage said she saw the
direct effects of the hot weather
on her tent.
“I’d be in the tent and ladies,
especially older ladies, would
walk up to the tent, take one
glance, look at me and say,
‘It’s too hot’ and walk away,”
Mitchell said. “People don’t
want to put clothes on their
sweaty bodies. Definitely sales
were down just because people
didn’t want to be trying on
clothes in the heat.”
In
addition
to
the
hot
weather, the fair was greeted
by strong storms on Friday and
Saturday. A down power line
led to reports of a car explosion
and injuries. Despite artists
rushing to weigh down their
tent and cover their artwork,
tents still slid around the street
and were blown over, leaving
some artists’ work completely
damaged.
‘U’ student
dethroned of
pageant title
Miss World America
strips Kathy Zhu
of crown over
controversial tweets
Last
Friday,
a
University
of
Michigan student made her way into
the spotlight after the Miss World
America organization stripped her of
her Miss Michigan title on account
of two tweets deemed “offensive,
insensitive and inappropriate content.”
MWA’s concern spurred from two
tweets from their former titleholder
LSA senior Kathy Zhu, vice chair
of the College Republicans at the
University. The first tweet was from
October
2017
condemning
Black
Americans for violence within their
own communities, and the other was
from February 2018 equating the use
of a hijab to the oppression of women
under Islam.
The latter tweet was Zhu’s response
to a ‘try a hijab on’ booth at the
University of Central Florida campus
where she was formerly a student.
The booth was hosted by the school’s
Muslim
Student
Association
in
celebration of World Hijab Day.
Zhu’s tweet garnered thousands
of replies, including some which
called for her expulsion. UCF issued
a response on Twitter, stating Zhu’s
actions did not violate the school’s
Rules of Conduct.
Zhu transferred to the University of
Michigan the following semester. Her
tweet on the experience has since been
taken down, but the Orlando Sentinel
published a screengrab when they
covered the story in 2018. Despite its
deletion, Zhu told Fox News on Monday
she still “stands by” her tweets.
Upon the revocation of her title,
Zhu
tweeted
screenshots
of
her
conversation with Laurie DeJack,
former acting state director for MWA
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Extreme weather affects Ann
Arbor Art Fair products, turnout
ALEC COHEN/Daily
Vistitors walk through the Ann Arbor Art Fair in downtown Ann Arbor, which was met with high temperatures and stormy weather Saturday.
FRANCESCA DUONG
Daily Staff Reporter