The Flint Institute of Arts Fifth Annual Print Fair was
November 22-24, 2013. There was a steady stream of visitors throughout Saturday
and Sunday, both novice and experienced collectors. In particular there was
interest in the works of Bernard Rosenquit and Anne Ryan.
The Flint Institute of Arts (Michigan) is located in the
Cultural Center, near The Whiting, a performing arts theatre, the Longway
Planetarium, the Flint Youth Theatre, the Flint Institute of Music, and the
Buick Automotive Gallery.
The Cultural Center is anchored at the north-east of
Kearsley Street by Applewood, a gentleman’s farm, built for Charles Stewart
Mott in 1916. The orchards include 26 varieties of apples. Mott, from Newark,
NJ, was born into a bicycle-wheel making family that merged with the Buick
Motor Company; Mott was an original partner in the General Motors Corporation.
At the south-west end is the 1885 Whaley House, 624 East
Kearsley Street, designed by Detroit architect George Watkins; it is the only
Gilded Age house in the Cultural Center area.
