The People's Art Festival, despite a week's postponement, brought out
droves of people, art, and artists. It was a large Sunday gathering
inside a Detroit post-industrial landscape.day gathering
inside a Detroit post-industrial landscape.
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After being rained out last weekend, the People’s Arts Festival at
the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit had some tough competition
today with the Funky Ferndale Art Fair going on less than 10 miles away.
But that didn’t stop the crowds from coming out en masse on the last
day of summer to what has become the largest arts festival in Detroit,
according to its Web site. 2008 marked just the second year of the
festival, which opened at 11 a.m. today and runs through midnight.
“It’s
going pretty good, better than it was last year,” said John Robinson,
67, of Flat Rock, a security guard at the Russell Industrial Center.
“They’re coming out like flies and there are no places to park.”
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