CELEBRATION OF LIFE - AUGUST 27, 2 PM - SOUTH HAVEN, MI - POST #49, AMERICAN LEGION HALL
How to talk about an artist (printmaker) who embodied a life fully lived?
Being next to him at an art fair brought the event to a whole other level. We're not
Read more…FOR SALE IN DENVER, CO - Complete set up for doing art shows! Knock down space saver Propanel set up in black (18 panels), includes all the hardware, stabilization bars and light bars. This set was used twice last year and I bought it new. It was $2
Read more…Pamela Hill died on Sept. 15 after a 4 year struggle with colon cancer. Pam grew up in Amish country in Illinois and learned quilting at an early age. I must have met her in the 1990's, who knows where? You know how it is there are people you see reg
Many many of you in this business have met photographer Larry Berman, a man who has generously shared his time and talent With so many artists. On Friday lost his wife Mary. This is a business that thrives with that silent partner beside us. My con
Read more…I first met Ron Scarborough at the Palmer Park Art Festival in Detroit in 1978. He must have been pretty young then, guess I was also. His wonderful work drew crowds and he was a celebrity in the crowd of admirers. I wish I'd had the good sense to bu
I first met Don at the Ann Arbor Art Fair in 1978. My husband, Norm Darwish, and I were his next door neighbors. The AA Art Fairs are four days long and we had a great treat in store for us with Don as a neighbor. He'd probably been showing his paint
Michael Weber of Port St. Lucie, FL, died after a brief illness on October 25. After months of not feeling well, shortness of breath and fatigue, without any specific diagnosis, he was admitted to the hospital earlier in the week, to get answers. He
Read more…Victor "Vic" Barr - JUNE 30, 1942 – APRIL 19, 2019
Vic Barr was one of those artists who were finally able to get going after retirement, a retirement that lasted 20 years. He was a woodworker, but even more, he was a tireless promoter of the arts a
New England photographer Ron Wilson was in an accident Friday night on the way to the Armonk Art Show.
http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/20180930/acclaimed-east-bridgewater-photographer-killed-in-crash-never-gave-up
Larry Berman
Read more…It's with a heavy heart to have to post the Charis Rex, a long time Ohio potter has died in a car accident.
After her 20 years of working as a pediatric LPN at Lima Memorial Hospital, Charis discovered her passion for pottery. Charis spent the next 4
Read more…Flourish Trimline canopy x2
Located in upstate New York
Both are gently used (2) 10x10 Flourish Trimline canopies with add ons:
I used them together to make a 10x20 set-up and also separately.
I will sell separately. Traveling a bit this summer an
Read more…IIt is with great sadness that the family of Douglas Martin Durkee, 71, of Marietta, Georgia announces his unexpected passing on Tuesday, May 8.
Doug will be lovingly remembered by his devoted wife Nannette and his daughter Kira Hassenger. Doug will
Read more…So sad to think that Toni Mann is no longer with us. Toni was one of the most-loved people in our business. She was a potter and participated in art fairs with her husband, Jay Mann, for at least 30 years. All the artists knew Toni.
About 3 years she
Read more…It is with regret I just found out that Karen Holtkamp, a long time member on AFI, passed away September 6, 2017. I was next to her at several shows, the most recent was last year's Talbot Street where we were able to talk again in person. She was al
Read more…I just found out yesterday that Gary San Pietro passed away on June 27th. A smoker for as long as I can remember, he had been diagnosed with lung cancer a few years ago and had survived an operation but in the past year or so had started smoking agai
Read more…Photographer Bernard Blekfeld of Orlando, FL, died recently. Details from his family are pending.
He participated in art fairs for many years and was an AFI member.
Here is a nice remembrance from another photographer from an email I received:
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Mark came to art fairs after a whole other life with great enthusiasm. With his wife Julie they created glass sculptural works that were exhibited at tons of shows and they had a lot of fun doing it. He was a great guy, big smiles, energy and fun. H
Read more…Ceramicist Steve Cunningham (69) of W. Des Moines, Iowa, died March 11 from pancreatic cancer. Steve and his wife Mikyong worked together at their Cunningham Pottery for many years and they were regular fixtures at art fairs around the country.
With
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It is a sad day for our community when we lose such a caring show organizer. Leslie Wolfe, for 20 years at the helm of the Old Town Art Fair, passed on October 24. Anyone who has participated in this show knew that the director loved the arts and ar
Read more…My dear friend Roxie Dalton died on June 9 in a hospice in Kalamazoo, MI, as the result of a stroke in April. Roxie was one of my first friends in this business. She could do it all: paint, sculpt, draw, create all kinds of wonderful things. Hanging
