A2: Tiny Expo

On the UM School of Art & Design’s Play blog, Kath Weider-Roos writes about the birth of the Tiny Expo, an indie arts and crafts fair to be held on Dec. 11 at Braun Court in Kerrytown. It emerged in the wake of a decision by Ypsilanti’s Shadow Art Fair organizers to take a break from the vendor portion of their event this year. Weider-Roos writes: “That’s when Dylan Strzynski and Helen Gotlib, along with Peter and Michelle Baker, decided to step in and fill the Shadow void with an event here in Ann Arbor. ‘Honestly, it was an idea we’d been tossing around for awhile actually. I mean, why do all the cool, indie events have to be in Ypsilanti anyway? We have hip people in Ann Arbor!’” [Source]