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Credit Lester Graham / Michigan Radio There will be no Ann Arbor Art Fair for the second year in a row due to the pandemic. The directors of the three fairs that comprise the annual event held each July in Ann Arbor made the joint decision, saying they couldn’t find a way to make it happen under the State of Michigan’s pandemic restrictions. The executive director of the Ann Arbor Art Fair, The Original, Maureen Riley, said the art fair cancellation will have a huge financial impact on the area. “The art fair brings in about 15 million new dollars, totally new spending to the Washtenaw County area and that means that’s money that wouldn’t have been spent here otherwise,” Riley said. ....
The directors of the Ann Arbor Original Fair, the State Street Fair, and the Summer Art Fair the three fairs that comprise the Ann Arbor Art Fair jointly announce the decision to cancel the 2021 Ann Arbor Art Fair. The three fair directors worked very hard to find a way to make this event happen under the State of Michigan’s pandemic restrictions and have realized that, as the nation’s largest art fair, it would be impossible to move forward with this year’s event. “We can truthfully say that we tried everything we could to make it work with COVID protocols, but the bottom line is that outdoor gathering restrictions would need to be totally lifted before we could proceed. We hung on to hope that restrictions might change, but we have now run out of time. We all think it is likely that capacity limits will be lifted by July, but there are no guarantees. It would be unfair to ask artists to take that risk.”, said Mo Riley, director of Ann Arbor Street Ar ....