Thursday, July 25, 2019

INDEX

Vol. CXXVIII, No. 119
 © 2019 The Michigan Daily 

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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

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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

