WSG's Holiday Show Opens

Middy Potter's "Long Tall Sally" greets visitors to WSG's Holiday Show, which opens with a reception Friday, Dec. 2, 7-10 pm. The opening coincides with downtown Ann Arbor's Midnight Madness kick-off of the holiday season.

We have many smaller, unique items in the Holiday Show. Our artists have created smaller paintings, hand-made cards, jewelry, felted, recycled wool mittens and many other objects d'art to fit your list of gift items this season!

Parking will be crazy Friday, but the atmosphere will be festive with music, outdoor performances and special sales in our unique group of local retailers downtown.

We have a new neighbor in our building - Lily Grace - a specialty cosmetics shop, and Friday will be her Grand Opening, as well.

Buy local, buy handmade, BUY MICHIGAN!

Hope to see you at the gallery!

Post Art Fair Musings from a Downtown A2 Gallery

The streets are back to normal downtown Ann Arbor, that is, as normal as they get. The garbage has all been hauled away, happy art collectors have taken their pieces home, artists have gone home with less work than they brought and, hopefully a little bit of $$ in their pockets (or a lot!).

Love it or hate it, Ann Arbor depends on the Art Fair to bring several hundred thousand people to the City to buy art, food, drinks, all kinds of retail items and stay in hotels and B & Bs. As a matter of fact, a 2008 Power Marketing survey reports that local hotels made $5million and restaurants made over $25million during Art Fair alone that year. Art is essential to our local economy!

The next time you have the opportunity to tell your Congressperson, schoolboard or state politican that art matters, keep those numbers in mind!