Eli Lilly, Patron of the Arts
The pharmaceutical giant started with a single location in the Original Fair on North University in 2022. This year, it will be everywhere as the first-ever presenting sponsor of all three fairs.
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Culture
Cancer Gratitude
An Ann Arbor native, Joan Belgrave is a two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. Four years after her husband died, her life took another dramatic turn when a routine biopsy resulted in an especially dangerous diagnosis: “triple-negative” breast cancer.
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Zoom Readings
It was July of last year, and she had to finish What Springs Forth for a Zoom reading. It would be her first chance to hear her play—about “middle-aged friends who head for what they think will be a spa retreat and wind up battling [the elements], each other, and their inner demons”—read aloud.
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Event Review: Machine Dazzle’s Ouroboros
The ancient Egyptian and Greek symbol of a snake eating its tail, Ouroboros, is also the inspiration for the three-part art installation by U-M Stamps Roman J. Witt artist-in-residence Machine Dazzle (né Matthew Flower). The resident artist works jointly with students and faculty to create a work of art: Ouroboros, a room-sized “snake” that hangs from the ceiling at UMMA’s Irving Stenn Jr. Family Gallery.
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Medical Thriller
Marschall Runge didn’t realize how many physicians wanted to write fiction until he signed up for a “Writing for Doctors” workshop—and found 300 others in attendance.
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A Tiger Daughter Returns
These days, Charlene Kaye only gets back to Ann Arbor on tour, but she launched her music career playing open mics as a U-M English major in the late aughts.
Read MoreComposing Nature’s Melodies
To write his new orchestral piece, Evan Chambers took a walk in the woods.
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Harmonica Master
Peter “Madcat” Ruth was fifteen when he first heard blues duo Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry on...
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Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia
Sopheap Pich’s 2012 Seated Buddha—Abhaya Mudra, made of bamboo and rattan, greets visitors to the...
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Bookseller Jay Platt
Every time Jay Platt walked past the building on his way to work, he thought it would be an ideal...
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Fifth Avenue Studios
Gorski works on the Ann Arbor District Library’s outreach team and hosts The Gayest Generation, an...
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Lives of the Artists
Artist Dylan Strzynski started interviewing art fair artists in 2013. It was easy to find...
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Susan Pollay’s Whimsies
“I joke that other people go to the lake to relax by the water,” says Susan Pollay. “I just enjoy...
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FestiFools Returns
“I felt some community responsibility to bring it back,” says Tucker, who’s art director and...
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Saving the Speakeasy
For almost thirty years Johnny Williams hosted concerts in the basement of his home on Dexter Rd....
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Do the Humanities Have a Future?
A distraught woman stares into the middle distance against an ominous red background; from a jagged voice bubble comes her anguished cry: “… NOW WHAT?”
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Centennial Celebrations
On February 27, 1924, Ann Arbor celebrated its first centennial with a big birthday party at the...
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Event Preview: Tiny Expo
If you love art but hate the crowds and heat of the city’s summer art fairs, you’ll swoon over the...
Read MoreKaren TenBrink
Whenever Karen TenBrink talks about music, her eyes light up. From her earliest years, it’s brought her joy, and it’s brought people together. For the past decade she’s been sharing those pleasures as director of the Ann Arbor...
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Broadcasting from Briarwood
On Saturday, December 9, shoppers in Briarwood Mall will encounter ringing bells, singing choirs,...
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