The annual Art Fair and House Tour will be held this year on Mother’s Day, May 9, in the 6100 block of Kingsbury from 12 noon until 5 P.M. The Art Fair will, as usual, line the street and sidewalk. Categories of art to be judged are Children’s, Teen-age, Oil and Acrylic, Watercolor and Gouache ; Drawings, Pastels, Prints and Mixed Media; Sculpture and Crafts. Cash prizes will be offered in all categories. Judging will be by Peter Marcus, Bill Kohn and Dan Dries of Washington University. In case of rain, the Fair will be held May 16. Some of the works displayed will be for sale, but there is no charge for browsing along enjoying art works, the craft makers at work, and visiting your neighbors along the way.
Refreshments in a street cafe and a garden cafe will be served by local young people. There’ll be coffee and cold drinks, cake and sandwiches, and chairs to relax on while “doing” the Fair.
Entry blanks in all categories are available at the Skinker-DeBaliviere office, 6008 Kingsbury.
Tickets for the House Tour will be available at the official’s desk at the Fair. As in the past two years, local houses in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood will be included on the tour. Many of these have distinctive architecture and date back to the time of the 1904 World’s Fair. Solid and substantial, they have seen a lot of life move up and down the tree-lined streets of the neighborhood. Owners have exercised creativity and ingenuity in adapting them to today’s life style, and a number of them will open their doors on May 9 and show them off to the public.
The Art Fair and House Tour have proved themselves one of the most popular local events. Each year the number of artists renting space to show their works increases and the crowd of viewers grows larger. The addition of the garden cafe where snacks and soda were available to viewers has added to the festive atmosphere and provided a welcome rest for weary strollers.
Questions concerning either the Art Fair or the House Tour can be directed to 862-5122.
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ART FAIR
Originally published in The Paper, May 1971.
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