Samin Hassan | The Detroit News
Downtown Ann Arbor is set to host the annual Ann Arbor Art Fair, filling 30 blocks with nearly 1,000 artists' booths, musical stages and art demonstrations Thursday-Saturday.
The event draws close to 500,000 attendees to Ann Arbor each year for a transformed outdoor art gallery where artists, collectors and admirers can immerse themselves in a diverse showcase.
People walk along State Street during the Ann Arbor Art Fair on Friday, July 22, 2022. Max Ortiz, The Detroit News
“I’ve been with the Ann Arbor Art Fair for 18 years now and each year it just keeps getting bigger and better,” said Karen Delhey, executive director of the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair. “Every summer we take these three days in July to celebrate art and artists from across the country and invite everyone into the downtown to take it all in. I love every second of it.”
The Ann Arbor Art Fair is the nation's largest juried art fair, consistently ranking as one of the top juried fine arts fairs in the country. This year, guests can visit the booths of nearly 1,000 participating juried artists that come from across the U.S.
Artist Helen Agius-Andreae is just one of the fair's many participants.
"We've been doing fuse glass since 2007, but we started doing the art shows full-time last year," said Agius-Andreae, artist of "Fire and Fused," along with her husband, Frank Andreae, in Farmington Hills. "I think my favorite thing about the Ann Arbor Art Show is the people. They want to learn about the art and we love to talk about the process. We like hands-on teaching and we met a lot of fabulous people from all over the place."
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