hyde park's got art

We headed to the south side to go to Chicago's oldest juried Art Fair in Hyde Park, the 61st Annual 57th Street Art Fair. The streets were lined with white, tented booths that were filled with artist's work from all over the states. The booths showcased the art pieces in a variety of medias - Paintings, pottery, silver jewelry, photography, oils, bronze sculptures, and hardwood music boxes. It made even the not so musically inclined seem inclined, which made me inclined to buy one. I settled for a business card with the website on it.

Some of the artists did not heed Tom Skilling's warnings of storms and lost a few delicate pieces in the strong gusts of wind. It wasn't the wind, but the sudden downpour that caught us off-guard on our dash back to the car. We were held captive by the storm in the courtyard of Frank Lloyd Wright's quintessential prairie style home, the Robie House. After a few minutes, we meandered into the gift shop to wait out the onslaught of rain. Seeing that there was not going to be a break in the rain anytime soon, we broke down and purchased ponchos. With all of the Frank Lloyd Wright patterns printed on all types of materials - glass, tile, metal, paper, I half expected the ponchos to have a prairie style pattern printed on it. No such luck. It was just a clear garbage bag with a hood, but the plastic case the poncho was packaged in did have a Frank Lloyd Wright sticker on it.