Category Archives: Shadow Art Fair

KRAMPUS 2013 to be held the night of December 21 in Ypsilanti

By Mark | November 9, 2013

About three years ago, those of us responsible for the Shadow Art Fair, decided that local kids could benefit from the knowledge that, while Santa Claus goes out each Christmas Eve, visiting the homes of all the good children around the world, he has a no-so-jolly associate that does the same for those boys and […]

Also posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged Black Peter, Christmas, Corner brewery, Klaubaur, Knecht Ruprecht, Krampus, Pelznickel, Perchten, Santa Claus, war on Christmas | 14 Comments

More 2013 Shadow Art Fair highlights

By Mark | July 23, 2013

OK, now that a few days have passed, a little more evidence of what transpired at Saturday’s Shadow Art Fair is beginning to surface. And I have three things that I’d like to share with you. The first is audio from Andy Claydon’s Black Metal Bicycle. The second is video of a giant cat that […]

Also posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged Andy Claydon, black metal, Black Metal Bicycle, Klayton Dawson, pooping cat, Spontaneous Art, The Lovelies | 10 Comments

Goodbye from your friends at the Michigan Design Militia… We love you!

By Mark | July 21, 2013

Last night was kind of overwhelming, and I’m still processing it. I’d known, of course, that people loved the Shadow Art Fair, but I didn’t know just how deep it went until I set up a booth in the corner and started talking to people about what the event has meant to them over the […]

Also posted in Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Tagged Chris Sandon, closure, Closure Corner, Corner brewery, Jennifer Albaum, Mark Maynard, Melissa Dettloff, Michigan Design Militia, Molly Mast, Shadow Art Fair, Tim Furstnau | 8 Comments

Shadow Art Fair 2013

By Mark | July 20, 2013

As usual, Emi Slade killed it at this year’s Shadow Art Fair. She calls this one Captain Beefheart. I don’t know how well he did sales-wise, but it looked like our friend Marty “the lighthearted sadist” Flint was having fun introducing young and old alike to the world of bondage. Bearded local librarian Ben Miller […]

Posted in Shadow Art Fair | Tagged Andy Claydon, beards, Ben Miller, Captain Beefheart, Corner brewery, Cre Fuller, Crimespree, Crimewave, Cthulhu, Dreamland Theater, Emi Slade, exposed sex organs, fax, five-headed shadow creature, fortune telling, Heidelberg Project Mobile Photo Video Booth, hermaphrodite, Jason Voss, Jessica Sheeran, Jim Cherewick, John Zeichman, loaves of bread that look like Mark Maynard, MFRN, Micah Loyd, Midwest Feminist Revolutionary Network, Naia Venturi, pain, puppets, sex organs, stuffed animals, Thom Elliott, Tim Furstnau, Tyree Guyton, Vinnie Massimino’s Fax Party | 7 Comments

Shadow Art Fair preview: Black Metal Bicycle

By Mark | July 17, 2013

One of the things I’m most looking forward to at this Saturday’s Shadow Art Fair is my friend Andy Claydon’s Black Metal Bicycle. Andy and I have been discussing the idea for weeks, but I didn’t get word, until just a few days ago, that all of his tinkering had finally payed off, and that, […]